Locked On Mariners - Daily Podcast On the Seattle Mariners - Can a Trade Sending Nolan Arenado to the Mariners Work?

Episode Date: January 10, 2025

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Visit Fandulul.com to get started. And if you want to hear from me and Colby of Amor and help support the show, check out our Patreon. All you have to do to check that out is click the link in the description of this episode. Kicking this off here on fan fiction Friday. It's a simple one for one from UW reply guy, Christopher Morel from the Tampa raise to Seattle for Logan Evans.

Yeah, it's probably too light, but I did like the idea of at least talking about Christopher Morel because we've talked about just seemingly every infield option you could think of, but I don't think we've talked about Morel once, and we talk about the raise all the time. Morel had a terrible year last, like god-awful year last year. And he's not really much of a glove. So you kind of have to really believe in the bat here

for him to be all that interesting. But he has played third base. It's primarily where he played last year. But again, he's not very good at third. In fact, he's terrible, let's say. Like he's bad. He's objectively bad at third base. He was a negative one win player last year.

So you really have to buy in the bad. The year before, he was a 121 WRC plus. So, you know, 247, 313, 508. This last year, Morrell, 196, 288, 346. There are strikeouts concerned. It was 31% in 2023. Last year was 26%. He actually walks a fair amount.

This year was 10%. before was 8.4. So it's not that he's, you know, wildly swinging or anything like that. It's just he not very good. You know, he is kind of a one-trick pony. It was a bad year. Yeah. It was a very, very bad year last year. Right. And so if he hits 247 with a 313 on base and he can slug 500 like he did in 2023, that's still a useful bat. And you kind of try and figure out what to do with the glove. Maybe you can help him. get close to average, but he's played pretty much all over the ballpark. And he just really hasn't found a position that he's even okay at.

Yeah, negative 11 outs above average last year at third base. And that was only in 579 innings. Right. By the way, that's quite the accomplishment and not in a good way. So yeah, I think your valuation is off. I do think Morel is interesting. He is one of those guys who you'd be buying low on and trying to bet on the bounce back. which is looking more and more like something the Mariners are going to want to do.

I mean, they've been linked to Yohan Moncada recently. So clearly there's some aspect where they're going to have to rely on a bounceback. And Morel is at least young. He's athletic. He actually isn't terrible at second base. So maybe he's your second baseman. Maybe he's an outfielder for you and he's part of that rotational mix. But yeah, if you think you can get him back to what he was in 2023,

he's a steal. He's probably going to be a steal because you get him for three years. If you get what you got last year, you pretty much just wasted whatever prospect you gave up. And so you do have to be careful here. And that's why I don't think I would feel comfortable giving up more than somebody in that Logan Evans range. But I don't think the raise would do it at that point.

There's just not enough upside for them there. So I think probably say no. Yeah, if you can find some middle ground where it's like Taipeet and then maybe Logan Evans on top of that or Michael Morales. Harry Ford straight up, who apparently the race of Pat Interestman. I mean, I would even,

I would even throw in Logan Evans on top of Harry Ford. Yeah, to take a shot on Merrill. Right. Yeah. Right. Because again, like you said,

if you can get him back to at least close to 20, and I get that guy for three years, I'll figure out where he can play. It's a good hitter. It helps. Right. Right. And if he isn't able to get back to what he was,

and he's just kind of a replacement level player, which would be a drastic improvement over what he was last year, like losing Harry Ford and Logan Evans, like it's not devastating to you. It's a bummer, but it's not devastating to you. And so you have to be really careful with Morrell,

but I do think he's an interesting name. Yeah, for sure. I guess one like a 40. Yeah, yeah. I don't think this even really gets anywhere. Yeah. But you gave us an interesting conversation. So I'll get 40.

Mike has a deal with the Cardinals, Nolan Aeronado, and $7 million for Mitch Hanager, Harry Ford, and Michael O'Royle. Yeah, so this question's in here because obviously, you know, yesterday Aronado was kind of the big name that got thrown around Mariners Twitter because he's apparently open to waving his no trade clause. Now that's according to the ocean. did that come from. Yeah, exactly. They're like, yeah. But,

yeah. So, but it does sound like he is at least, you know, open to the idea. Doesn't mean he'd definitely do it, but they'd consider it. Now,

maybe this is a ploy by his agent to try and drum up leverage between the Red Sox and, uh, the tigers who are both apparently kind of like, they're waiting out to Breggman market and whoever doesn't get Bregman is probably going to pivot towards Aeronado. So maybe he's just doing this to try and put some pressure on and blah,

blah, blah, But yeah, the problem with Aeronado that we talked about yesterday on our Patreon, which you guys can listen to, it's only the $3 tier episode too. So consider it a test run. But the problem with Aeronado is the deferred money is what it really is at the end of the day. Because right now, as things stand, if the Cardinals don't eat any money over the next three years, which are probably likely to be Aeronados, the worst three years of Aeronado's career, because he's 34, he's trending down, blah, blah, blah.

you're going to pay him three years and about 56 million, I think is the number, roughly, which, you know, for a bad player isn't very good. But Aeronado is a 3-1 player. That's not terrible. If they take Hanager, then his contract drops down to basically 3 and 36. And that's very reasonable. $12 million a year for a two to three-win player is a very good deal. But between now, and this has already started, but between now and I believe it runs through. 2041.

Yeah, 2041. Aronado is due $2 to $3 million every single one of those years in deferred money. So it ends up being $40 million, if, give or take, extra million dollars that you owe this guy over the course of the next 15 years.

Do the Mariners seem like a team that's going to take on that, that type of commitment? Should that be a big deal to the mayors? No. Is it going to be? Yes. Of course it does. So not only.

would the Cardinals have to probably take on Hanegger's money to make Aeronado affordable this year. But they would also probably have to chip in. And I would guess pay at least half of the deferred money. Now, we did hear that when the, when Aeronado turned down the Astros trade, when he invoked his no trade clause to the Astros, that the Cardinals were apparently willing to kick in $15 to $20 million, which is essentially them taking on Hanager's contract. Yeah.

It's a very complicated deal. I think that the deferred money makes this deal basically impossible. $7 million, I don't think is enough money in addition to taking the hand of her contract to offset that. So what, all right, so seven, what does Aeronado do this year? Just this year? Yeah, just this year. I believe it's $20 million plus $2 million in deferred money. which Cardinals may have already paid.

I don't know exactly what date that has to be paid out. Okay, so 21 plus the two. So let's call it 23. Sure. For now, you know, maybe they've already paid it, whatever, but let's just call it 23. So you're saving 17.5 with Hanigur. Or 15 and a half. Who really knows.

Yeah. Yeah. And then you're also getting $7 million. So Aeronado's paid for in 2025. and then some a little bit. But so then you're looking at 16 next year, 15 the year after that. So 31 plus the 40-ish million. 40-ish million and deferred.

Yeah. Really it comes down to a three-year $76 million contract. And it's not technically that because, you know, again, the deferred money, blah, blah, blah. But like, that's the commitment. Terranado is $70 million. And he's only going to play at most three years for you. for the player Aeronado is right now, the Mariners probably don't think he's worth that.

Should they care about the deferred money? No. Do they? Absolutely not. Of course they do. So I don't think Aeronado trade is going to happen for that reason. In terms of your valuation, if the deferred money didn't exist at all,

I would assume you're in the ballpark with this. Like I think this is about right. So, you know, it's tough to, grade this because you're not factoring in the deferred money or if you are you're not factoring it in you know nearly just go 50 I'll go 50 yeah I think I think that's fair I think the valuation is about right but the deferred money is a huge X factor here and I don't think it's likely or I mean it's possible but it's highly unlikely that the mariners are even interested in Aeronado for that reason specifically yeah but we'll see so yeah I'll go 50 yeah all right we are going to go over more of your

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And you're listening to the Locked on Marrters podcast. It is Fan Fiction Friday. We're looking at some of your Mariners trade ideas. We got this one from Kieran, who has Harry Ford and Brock Rodin go into Colorado from Michael Tolia. There's a reason we don't do. There's a couple reasons. We don't do many Rockies trades on fan fiction Friday.

The roster sucks. One, their roster sucks. Two, they might be the stupidest team in baseball. and they're basically impossible to work with that Jerry Depoto hasn't made a trade with them for a reason, you know. So we don't do a lot of Rockies trades because mostly because there's nobody on the roster

really worth talking about outside of like Doyle who's not going to happen. But we actually got like three or four Tolia trades, which is weird. So much so I actually like, does he get mentioned by somebody recently or no? So that was kind of out there. So I thought we talked about him a little bit

because there seems to be some interest in him. Tolya is interesting. He's coming off of a two-win season. That was B-War. I don't know what it was on F-War. Doesn't really hit for average, but he hits for good power. He is a reverse splits guy.

He hits lefties better than he does right. He's actually. And while his average and on base are better at course field, he actually slugs significantly more away from Corse Field than he does at Corse Field. So that's... Yeah, he's average. He's kind of an analytics darling right now.

Like I've seen a lot of people. Ava page. Yeah. I was curious why we got so many trades this week, like specifically if there was a report. But in general, like I know Tolia has a lot of hype around him. And there's a lot of people that believe like he's going to break out here in the next year or two.

Yeah. I mean, like you look at his 90th percentile in X Woba, 93rd and X slug, 91 in average ex of Velo, 98 in barrel, 94 in hard hit. 91 in launch angle sweet spot 70th percentile bat speed he walks a ton 92nd percentile there can't play defense he's the first baseman not a very good one uh and he does swing and miss a lot strikes out a lot so uh yeah i mean i get it it's interesting he's a left-hand of bat he's the first

baseman you need one of those he's cheap but he plays for the rockies and so while the rockies should be selling literally everything and being committing to like a 10 year rebuild because that's what it's going to take their farm system is terrible too by the way they're not going to they're stupid they probably think toolia is like Vlad Jr and they're probably going to demand a package like that to even discuss him so I don't think you're like Colt Emerson Las Montes and Julio right L.OL we already have Luke Grayley who's probably right now he is better than Tolia click sure yeah yeah uh totally interesting. Like I said, I looked at the savant page. I was like, oh, wow, that's a lot of red.

You kind of look at, okay, is he a Coors merchant? No, not really, some degree, but not power, which is what you're most concerned about getting outside of Coors. Is he a platoon guy? Do he and Rayleigh really fit on the roster together? Yeah, because totally hits lefties, totally fine. So, yeah, he's interesting. I just, it's the Rockies. So it's like, yeah, Kieran, you're. Yeah, Kieran, you're probably not in the ballpark here. Yeah, I think you're barking up the wrong tree. Yeah.

Tolia is interesting. Again, we got three or four offers or three or four trades for him. So, yeah, much like we did with Nolan Aeronado. So you pick one and you just talk about the player because we haven't talked about Tolia because, yeah. Again, we don't talk about the Rockies generally because they're not very talented. And B. Rosser sucks. They're the dumbest team.

in baseball. So there's a reason we don't do. This might be the first Rockies trade we've done on Fan Fiction Friday, maybe the second. But like, yeah. So I'm sure we've gotten some Brendan Rogers in there, Justin Lawrence. Well, I mean, there was a Ryan McMahon trade in there today. Oh, yeah, Ryan McMahon. Yeah.

We've talked about McMahon, but like, no. Yeah, he's just, I don't know. He's Josh Rojas. That's my, that's my reaction to pretty much every Rockies player. I'm just, except for Brenton Doyle. yeah and tolia would be fine like you'd be a good mission but like yeah no i mean you look at the numbers like you like forever for all the reasons that you just said like yeah there's uh some things to get excited about there but uh yeah they're they're not gonna trade him for anything reasonable

no so i mean like if we if tolia was on a different team like would this offer be enough to get them i don't think so no um so for me it's like four 40, 35, something like that. Yeah, I'm right there with you. Zach has a deal with the raise, Pete Fairbanks, and Jonathan Arronda for Harry Ford, Ty Pete, and Ryan Bliss. This really comes down to how much do you like Pete Fairbanks? Yeah, quite a bit.

Yeah. I think you get him for two years, if we're not mistaken. And then Aranda is kind of like a lottery ticket, really. Yeah. There are some good things, but he's 26 years old. I did have a 113 WRC plus last year in 143 played appearances. So, yeah, you know, it's a bit of a risk that you're taking there. He's probably a first base only, which, you know, limits him because he's a first baseman who doesn't hit for a ton of power, right?

Like, obviously. It doesn't really hit for any power. Right. At least over the wallpower. Right. What do you do with Luke Rayleigh at that point? Can these guys coexist on the same, you know, on the same roster if you want, you know, primary first basement and whatnot? Aranda couldn't hit lefties last year at all.

Like, yeah. Yeah. Like Aranda is a good lottery ticket to take. I'm not trying to, you know, bash the idea. I think Aranda is a fun addition. But you need Fairbanks. Like you have to really like Fairbanks to be willing to pull off this deal. And I think I do because again, I think Harry Ford, the ceiling is just slowly moving down and down on him.

And Tai Pete is all sealing. And he's three, four years away from the big leagues. So, yeah, Ryan Bliss, I really don't care. Like, not that I don't like Ryan Bliss, but, you know, it's, you have Dylan Moore. You have Louis, you have, you have, you have Revas, you have other second base options. And you have Cole Young, obviously, coming up. at some point this year as well. So bliss to me is really not that big of a giveaway in this part.

So yeah, I mean, for me, it's like bliss for Aranda, which fine. The race would probably rather take a shot on Aranda. But then they get forward and Pete, two players we know that they've liked in the past for Fairbanks. They probably think they could do a little bit better. But the raise, they will settle sometimes for quality bulk over upside. So yeah, I think this is interesting. Yeah, it's interesting. And it's obviously two guys with Pete and four that you know the raise love.

Or have loved in the past. Yeah. I think they still do. But yeah. Probably. And you also give them a guy that's ready to take on major league endings at second base or somewhere up the middle. Right. Mm-hmm.

So I would think the raise would do this for what, two years of Fairbanks? Yeah, it's a little tough to judge right now because the relief market hasn't really taken off, particularly in the trade market. So we don't know what that looks like. That's kind of why I say that, though, you know? Right. This feels like, I don't know. It just, it feels like it lines up so much with what the race philosophy has been in trades too. Yeah.

Trade a guy a year too early rather than a year too late. you know. Well, and Fairbix is coming off the lat injury as well. Right. So there's going to be question marks. Take shots on athletes. That's a very Tampa Bay race thing to do. And all three of these guys are really good athletes.

So. Well, and Bliss can play now. Ford should be able to play at some point in 2025. And you have Danny Jansen is really your only catcher. You have no long-term catcher plans whatsoever. So yeah, I'll get this one in 45-50, somewhere in that range. yeah it's pretty solid yeah i'll go 55 on this actually all right so we are going to go over a couple more of your trades here in just a moment

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more trades to go over here. Dave has another Nolan Aronado deal with the Cardinals. This one also includes Lars Newt Bar. The Mariners are sending St. Louis, Mitch Hanager, obviously, to cover some of the money like we talked about early.

Harry Ford or Cole Young. I guess Dave's comparable. Yeah, Dave apparently sees them as interchangeable. I disagree with that. Emerson Hancock and the competitive balance round a

selection. So this one's a little bit difficult to assess because again, Dave is kind of viewing young and forward as interchangeable which I don't think is accurate.

So do you want to pick one, Colby? And grade it based off of that, how do you want to attack this? I think we probably have to pick one and I think it probably has to be young. Yes. Because otherwise, this is a non-starter for St. Louis. Also.

Because, like, I think Ford and the comp round APIC and Emerson Hancock covers the Aeronato aspect of things. If they're taking on Hanegers contract. Right. But you're also getting Lars Neupar in here. And that's Newt Bar for three years. Yep. So, yeah. Yeah, so, all right.

So let's say, let's call it Cole Young, Emerson Hancock, competitive balance, round A selection of Mitch Hanigur for Aeronado and Dupar. What do you think? Hanager and Aeronado fine for one year, but then if the Cardinals aren't kicking in any money, then you're on the hook for another 40 million in deferred like we talked about in the first segment and then also $30-ish million over the next two years on top of that. So right away, I think the deal's dead right there. But if we took, if we took the deferred money out of it, blah, blah, blah. Newpar for Cole Young, Emerson Hancock, and the Comp Round A pick, honestly feels a little bit much for Lars Neupar. He's a good player.

Don't get me wrong. But, and he has a really surprisingly good statcast page of you're a big stat cast fan, lots of red. But he's a fourth outfielder for you, maybe a DH. Or maybe he moves Randy, Rosarney to DH. He's a good player. Nolan Aeronado is still. a pretty good player. Yeah.

But the money that you're taking on from Aeronado is so massive. Like it is such a big deterrent for the man. Well, now New Bar is going to start making money as well. So you also have to factor that in to the equation here. I think the money end unfortunately kills this for the Mariners. And I just question. And unfortunately kills a lot of things for the Mariners. Right.

And I just question how much value the Mariners are going to place on Lars Newbar. and also how much are the Cardinals going to value Lars Nupar? Apparently they valued him a lot two years ago. Right. And he's like a two and a half one player. Like that's what his ceiling is. And again, that's a valuable player.

The Mariners certainly just need bats in general. And yes, you could absolutely make Newpar fit in the outfield, just like you could any outfielder. There is room to get at bats there. But you're talking about giving up Cole Young, who's supposed to be your second baseman, maybe starting this year.

You're giving up the comp round A pit. which is also giving up $2.5 million in bonus pool money. And you're taking on all of Aeronado's contract after this year, including some of Aeronado's money because Hanager himself can't offset that entirely. So it's an interesting thought. Newport, we really haven't talked about this winner at all, which is a nice change of pace, honestly. So it's interesting.

We got our fill two years ago. Right. It's interesting, but I think the money is just too big here of a, of a, you know, too big of a problem of a headache for the Mariners, especially since Young is going to be their, their starting second basement. They think for the next three years at league minimum, actually four years at league minimum more than likely. So I think they probably balk at this deal. But it's, it's interesting. You know, like I think it's creative and it's a new name, an old new name. I guess. I give it like a 45. Yeah, I don't think it's enough for the Cardinals. I think there's a path to building on this and maybe making it work. Yeah. But I think as currently constructed, it's 40.

Yeah, I'll go 45. NWFXC has a deal with the twins, Willie Castro and old friend Justin Topa for Ben Williamson. and Logan Evans. Topa really didn't pitch last year. He's a big X factor, but obviously the Mariners are very familiar with him. Willie Castro,

I didn't see what his arm number came in at. I think it was around the 6.8 that like trade rumors projected. So whatever. We know about what he's worth. He's a one year rental player. Do you want to give up Ben Williamson for one year of Willie Castro? I would. And Evans for Topa feels like a bit of an overpay because Topa didn't pitch.

a lot last year. So I think you're actually overpaying a little bit here. But it is a, it is a seller's market. And this would be a selling move for the twins who are still looking to shed some payroll. But they probably would rather shed Christian Baskas, which not going to happen. Certainly not with Seattle. So, yeah, this isn't, I think 50.

Yeah. I mean, like, what are like I's doing right now? Like, what are the twins doing right now? Like, apparently. the Mariners have been doing except the twins have been doing it for the last like four acquisition cycles apparently they're going to get new ownership by opening day that was the most recent report but yeah i mean like do they want to subtract i mean they're looking to trade Pablo lopez but what are they looking to trade Pablo lopez for i think that would kind of tip us off on what they're doing

like what exactly are they looking for in return for lopez if it's majorly talent then they're probably not going to move willie castro even with only a year left because that probably signifies like they think they can still make some noise this year yeah i mean they're not wrong i could see them winning the the central yeah it's one year of castro you have a pretty stacked infield already i think you still have kyle farmer even um do they i think i thought he was a free agent maybe maybe but like they obviously is that is that is that going to be the merrious third baseman Oh, he went to the Rockies. Oh, okay.

So, yeah, but it's still Royce Lewis. It's Carlos Correa. It's Brooks Lee. So is there room for Willie Castro? Julian. Yeah, they can play him in the outfield. Julian's also a guy. I think the Mariners should probably look at.

So, yeah, I still think the twins might trade an infielder. And if you're pinching pennies like the twins are, trading the guy making $7 million, who is kind of your utility guy, really, more than anything makes them sense. And they also have a bunch of young talent in the outfield that's going to come up at some point this year more than likely. So I think Castro is going to get pushed out by July anyways.

And if that's the case, why not trade him now and get something? So I think, you know, Evans and Williamson basically for Castro, because again, Topa is just a throw in. I think that's a pretty good return for one year of Willie Castro. So if I were the twins, I would do this. It might be an overpay by the Mariners, but also I don't really care. No, Willie Castro would really help. Yeah.

So, yeah, I would be more than willing to pay this. And I get to take a shot on Justin Topa again. It was really good for me. Hopefully he's healthy. Yeah. Yeah, I would absolutely do this. I just, I'm not convinced the twins would. So I'm probably the landing somewhere out of 50 on this.

I could see it. I could also not see it. That makes sense. Yeah. All right. So thank you all for your trade submissions. We got a lot this week. Unfortunately, you know,

we're only able to get to a handful of them on one particular episode. But really appreciate all the, all the submissions this week. I think we had over 100 replies on a 22. I think was the final count. That might be the most we've ever had, actually. So, yeah, really appreciate all the submissions. Yeah.

Which, I mean, that's going to happen. It's bound to happen. happen. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's why typically like it's not necessarily the best trades I take. It's like, hey, people have been asking about this guy and a lot of different trades. Let's find one. So we could talk about this individual player, like the Tolio thing, right? Yeah. You see Michael Tolia four or five times. I mean, it seemed like a lot out of 122 submissions, but when everybody else is Luis Castillo to Baltimore, Luis Castillo to Boston, it is like, okay, let's. Yeah, I needed a break from the Castillo trades, to be honest with us. And so Tolia being asked about as much.

And then sometimes it's somebody asking us about Christopher Morel. And even if the trade isn't, you know, like a 55 or anything like that, it's still, hey, we haven't talked about morale. That's interesting. Let's include this trade. It's not always just about, you know, trying to find the best and the worst trade so we can make fun of people or we can be like, oh, that's a 70. Like sometimes it's about, you know, hey, we haven't talked about that guy. That's interesting. Let's talk about it.

Let's talk about what it would cost, we think. And so, yeah. Yeah, it's different criteria. But yeah, 122 submissions is a lot. So if you didn't get picked this week, sorry, try again next week. But yeah, obviously we can't do 122 trade. Yeah, yeah. I mean, we're already way over time right now doing seven or eight.

So yeah, yeah, yeah. All right. So thank you guys once again. That's going to do it for our show. Thank you so much for joining us here on the Lockdown Marriss podcast for Colby Patnode. I'm Tiding Azales. Be sure to give us a follow on Twitter at L0 underscore Mariners. You can follow me at Tiding.

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