Locked On Mariners - Daily Podcast On the Seattle Mariners - Could the Seattle Mariners and Boston Red Sox Swap THESE Two Breakout Players?! | Fan Fiction Friday

Episode Date: June 5, 2026

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We're a little under two months away from the trade deadline, which means the return of fan fiction Friday. Colby, hit it. You are Locked-on Mariners, your daily Seattle Mariners podcast, part of the Locked-on Podcast Network, your team every day. Ahoy, sailors, it is Friday, June 5th, 2026. My name is Tadangazil, and I'm joined as always by my co-co's Colby Patnode, and today marks the return of Fan Fiction Friday, the show where you submit your Mariners trade ideas, and we grade them on the 2080 scale based on creativity,

uniqueness, and most importantly, if they're realistic and actually makes sense, not just for the Mariners, but for both teams. Very, very, very important there. kicking us off here on Fan Fiction Friday, Sam Swaggarty-69, who has a deal here with the Tigers,

which sees Nikki Becker, Corbyn Dickerson, and Mason Peters shipped off to Detroit for Glaber Torres. and will vest what's glaber torres doing here that's my question quob because yeah torres has historically crushed left-handed pitching and he's a right-handed bat but this year he's not slugging he's got an 89 w rc plus against lefties and that to me kind of defeats the whole purpose right of landing a right-handed bat from the mayor's perspective is to fix their issues against left-handed pitching and

Torres with what he's doing right now does not do that. Now, to his credit, he is crushing righties and again, because historically speaking, he has dominated against the lefties so you would think that maybe that would turn around but yeah, I don't know if Torres with what he's doing at the moment necessarily fits. I mean, hey, you know who else is historically hit lefties?

Yeah, so I don't think you're going to go acquire, you know, somebody to put Cole Young on the bench who can't give you more than Cole Young can give you in terms of value. I just, I don't see that as a real possibility. Not to mention Torres is playing on the qualifying offer. So if you acquire him in July, he's going to still be owed $8 million, give or take. Yeah, the mayors have added payroll midseason in the past, as recently is just last year. but that might be the whole chunk, and that's not counting what you're adding with Will Vest, who's making a little bit of money.

Vest is probably the prize of this trade, though, I would assume. That's how it's being viewed. Pretty good reliever. Again, if you look at the RA, you get Shell Shock, look at the underlying numbers, pretty good, and we know that Vest has been good in the past as well. You get him for another year after this,

so he's not a rental. But he is a reliever, and relievers don't always get to their final year of arbitration. So it's tough sometimes to sell a Arb reliever as he's got two full years left when in reality, good chance they get non-tendered and it's only one. And that's kind of how the market views them, blah, blah, blah. So just kind of looking at this trade, I like Will Vest. I think he's a good target.

Glaber Torres. I don't really see what he does for me. And then this is a pretty huge chunk of your middle class of prospect here. But I also wonder, you know, are any of any? these guys going to be of interest to the Tigers? How committed to winning in 2027 are the Tigers? Because they might prefer guys who are closer. And Becker and Dickerson are not that close to the big leagues.

Mason Peters, maybe. I could see him, you know, making a pretty quick run-up to the big leagues. He's looked obviously very good in Modesto, but it is Modesto. It's not like he's carved up by the way. Yeah, whatever. My apologies to the nuts. much better name than the 66ers. Yeah.

Nuts forever. But yeah, I just, I don't know this trade works for Detroit. I don't think it really works for the Mariners because of Glaber Torres. Plus, you know, I really like Mason Peters. So I don't love it from a personal standpoint,

either. 40? Yeah, 40. I just, it's like maybe. I think the Tigers would want, like a better headliner for Vest too. And I don't think that getting them out from the Tora's contract

a couple of months earlier and helping them save you know, eight to 10-ish million dollars or whatever winds up being is enough for them to lower the ask for Vest. So, yeah. Yeah, it's a bulk package.

And I don't know if Detroit's going to go for that for for vest who's probably going to be one of the more prominent relievers moved at this deadline because don't get fooled by the seven two three area right now no no that's that does not tell the story of will vass season I mean it does in that he's been unlucky but yeah again you get him for an extra year after this year I mean to be fair duron cost two top hundred so I don't think will vest is going to cost you last montes but maybe I just don't think the Tigers can go for a bulk deal, to be honest. I think there's still enough questions about Becker and Dickerson that this might come down in their eyes to just Mason Peters for those two.

They probably think they can get more if they trade them separately. Next trade here from Zach, Marisgett, Elliot Ramos, and Keaton Wynn for Dom Kanzone, Michael O'Royle, Mason Peters, and Poe Chen Lent. I like Keaton Win. I've been a fan of his for a couple years now. Yeah, he's having a very good year. If you look at his Sampont page, a lot of red, a lot of red. Not striking a lot of guys out, though. No, and so I just, while I like Keaton Wynn, I just wonder if he's actually the difference maker that this bearer's bullpen needs.

Yeah. Because this is a hefty price. And Elia Ramos to me, like he's Diet Randy without the speed. I mean, honestly, he's not too dissimilar from Dom-Kanzone, except, that he's a right-handed hitter. Either is going to provide any defense. Neither is going to be, you know, is going to be carrying you in the middle of the lineup

for a World Series caliber team or anything like that. Like, honestly, if they swapped Canzone for Ramos, I'd be like, oh, okay, that kind of makes sense. You trade a lefty for a righty and they kind of fill the same role and all that. Now, he's crushing lefties, which that helps a lot. and he's playable against Ritey's. He doesn't really get on base.

No, at least against Redis. He gets on base against Lefties, but not righties. Right. He's slashing 254, 291, 389 against Redis, but 308, 357, 538 against Lefties this year. He has hurt right now. He has how many years left? A club control.

He's got three. Three. Okay. So, like, to me, it helps to separate trades whenever you get this many pieces. So to me, this is like Canzone for Ramos. Like, that's the swap. And those players are probably equivalent. Ramos may be viewed as a little bit better, but he's a weak side platoon player. Canzone's a strong side platoon player.

I would say can't zone's better. Right. And Kinzone also has more club control. So. But even if, right, let's just say hypothetically, that's a draw. Let's call it a draw. Whatever. It's not, but let's call it that.

Sure. Michael Arroyo, Mason Peters, and Lynn for Keaton Win. I think I can get about as good for cheaper. I think you would have to pay that price and maybe even a little bit better for Keaton Win. But I don't want to pay for Keaton, win. He doesn't miss my dad. But again, yeah, but again, I just, I'm not sure he's necessarily the different. Again, I feel like I have enough Keaton wins in my bullpins.

right now, I need a guy who misses a lot of bats, gets a lot of strikeouts. That's what I want in the bullpen. If I'm going to spend significant capital on a reliever, I want a guy that misses a ton of bats. And just when doesn't do that right now? No.

I think the valuation though is pretty close. Yeah. I think 55. Yeah. I wouldn't like this deal for the Mariners. I wouldn't. No, but.

we've seen worse. Yeah, I think roughly Yeah, it's in the ballpark at the very least. So I think it is like a 55 to a 60. The thing that's holding it back from getting the higher grade for me is just I wouldn't like this for the Mariners. No, I mean,

like if Canzon's better than Ramos, is that enough to get win for Arroyo and Peters? Because like Lynn kind of a throne at this point, but like, You know what I mean? Like if Arroyo and Peters doesn't get wind straight up, does the upgrade, at least we feel, from its own to Ramos, is that enough to carry it?

Or do you have to upgrade from Lynn on the back end of this deal? So I think it's pretty good. I think it's interesting. I think it's certainly not like a lot of the trades we saw in there. So yeah, I'm going to give it a solid 55, even though I don't like it that much from the Mariners perspective. Yeah, yeah. I'm somewhere in between a 55 to a 60 on it, for sure. Good work.

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It's just a straight up one for one. Dominic Canzone to the Cardinals for Riley O'Brien. For me, would I be willing to trade, you know, three years of probably a D.H. I mean, you could fake it in the outfield. But he's a D.H. Doesn't destroy lefties, although he should be given more opportunities to hit against them. But he's been fine. Like, he's not a pure platoon bat by any means.

Is that worth four years of a high leverage reliever like Riley O'Brien is and has been? yeah, I think with the roster build that I have right now, yeah, because I would trust, you know, Luke Rayleigh, and then I would still go out and try and seek maybe a more well-rounded, maybe a right-handed, heavy, DH there. Now, same question from the Cardinals side. Right, exactly. And that's kind of where I get hung up on this. I just do the Cardinals want a, what they might view as a, you know, strong side platoon DH when they have Burrell's. when they have Lars Neupar coming back. You know, they're not going to play them in the outfield.

They have Jordan Walker. They have Nathan Church, who they like a lot. So maybe. I mean, I'm not saying they definitely wouldn't. But to me, I just, I don't think this is something that they'd be interested in. I think for Riley O'Brien, who's got a ton of club control left and the Cardinals who don't plan to compete, you know, for the next couple years, even though they are right now, as we're recording this.

I think they'd probably look at it and be like, I think we want prospects. more so than 28-year-old major leaguers who are limited. So I don't think the Cardinals would go for this would be my hunch. I'm looking at the roster. Like, Yvonne Herrera's D-Hing right now. Jordan Walker's having a very good breakout year so he's not going to find the bench. You know, Victor Scott is playing center. Not that that's an option for Dom anyways,

but Nathan Church just got put on the IL a couple weeks ago. Lars Neupar is supposed to be back soon, who is also like a pure, left-handed hitting outfielder shouldn't really face a ton of lefties like i just don't think can't zone gets that done for them uh i do like the straight up one for one the simplicity of it and i do think like on the surface makes a good deal sense it's an older reliever who kind of broke out late for an older bad who broke out late uh it kind of addresses a need for the mariners and obviously a everyday hitter is more valuable than a reliever uh but i just i feel like st louis looks at this and it's just like

just doesn't really fit with our timeline at all. I do think O'Brien's going to be available, but I think they're going to want a young prospect in this package, not a 28-year-old, you know, DH-only, left-handed bat.

So I don't know. I think maybe you might be in the ballpark. I don't think this is outrageous, but I just don't think he gets it done. I think they would be looking for something similar to what the twins got for Louis Varland. But that, like,

Varland was a guy that was, producing with like four or five years left of club control yeah they yeah varland has the same amount of well he had technically more club control than no brian does at the time but they're on the same club control right now um so yeah so i wonder yeah i wonder varland's the cop i forget exactly hold on louis varland trade let's do some googling on the show why not that always works out. It was Kindry Rojas, who's a left-handed pitching prospect, one of the better prospects

in the Blue Jay system and Alan Rodin or Varland and Thai France. France is kind of a throwing. So it's probably something like Mason Peters and Dom Kanzone, maybe a little bit better than Peters, maybe Michael Oroyo in Dom Kanzone. Probably something like that.

So, I don't know, 45. I would say 50. I think it's a 50. I think it's a 50. There might be more that needs to be added to it. It might need to be flushed out more. But overall, the idea of swapping canned zone for O'Brien makes some sense on both sides, for sure. Yeah, sure.

I'll go 50. Metallical has our next trade here on fan fiction Friday. It is Sedan Rafael from the Red Sox for Lazaro Montez, Emerson, Hancock. and Brock Rodden. Okay. Raphael's having a pretty good year. He just recently signed that extension. Yeah, he's finally hitting on top of being just an excellent defender

with versatility, by the way. Hancock's broken out. Still not really sure what Lazaro Montes is. Yeah. I trade Laz this summer, sure. Yeah. Brock Rodden is just kind of more of a throw-in, I like Rodden.

But as far as this trade goes, he's more of a throw in. He's Brockholt, which works for Boston. Raphaelho moving to center right away. Are we moving Julio to right? Is that the move? Because I don't know if Julio's going to like that, but without question, Rafael is better, especially in 2026.

It's not a debate. So, yeah, really interesting trade. I like that it is a name that we haven't really talked about at all over as well not since the and if i had to guess i would think that the maras have probably tried to trade for raphaela in the past i would guess you know trade comes to mind i would venture to guess that they they like him and even though he signed that extension he's making like very little money right because i mean the i like the red sox are probably like oh we'll do this but for jaron nathan or oh yeah we'll give you jaron durand it's like well no we have

too many left-hand hitting out. Like, that's the whole point. We're not interested in Duran and a Brayu, although I'd love to get a Brayu, but like, obviously, you know, that's not going to happen here. So, yeah, and they probably would be like, okay, give us Kate Anderson's. No, no. And, you know, Emerson Hancock right now is an all-star, though. And you get him for four years, I think, four full seasons. Like, if the Mariners shopped Emerson Hancock at the deadline this year, they would get a haul for him.

Now he hasn't done it twice, so they wouldn't get like, you know, insane now. Yeah, I wonder how the rest of the league views what Hancock is doing right now. And I wonder at what point the rest of the league views him and just goes like, it doesn't matter what we think, this is who he is. Yeah. Like we can sit here and be like, oh, well, this doesn't look this. But it is. Like we're a month away from the All-Star break and the guy's got a sub-3 ERA

and he's striking out more than a batterer per nine. And he's not walking anybody. Yeah. This is very much hinges on the beauty in the eye of the beholder, though, right? For both sides, very much. But very much from the, from the Red Sox side, because it's like, do you love Lazaro Montas? Like some people do? Do you love what Emerson Hancock is doing right now?

Do you think that's repeatable? There are questions with the pieces going the Red Sox way, as there are with Raphaelah as well, because it's like, is what he's doing offensively right now real? Or is he more of a sub one? Or is he below league average hitter who's a great glove? I don't know. They're both kind of breaking out at the same year. So this is kind of a good challenge trade.

Yeah. Yeah, and then obviously you're paying a little bit more because LAS, I mean, you're paying more for the bat. Lazz is not a throw-in by any stretch. again, I'm very comfortable trading Lazz, but he certainly shouldn't be viewed as a throw-in. So, yeah, I don't know. I think for the sheer, like, creativity and also, like, guts, it takes to throw out a trade like this. I think I'll go 60.

This might be the most laughable trade-off ever to the Red Sox. I don't care. Like, for our purposes, it's fun. It's a thought-provoking trade. There's a lot of different. We could probably do a whole episode on just this. trade alone and it would still be but there'd be good back and forth to it but again whether red so red sox fans like it or not i don't really care so yeah i'm going 60 that's really interesting

i don't think this would i don't think this is realistic it doesn't score very high on the realism scale but on creativity and and like fun and like just kind of a thought experiment i like this this is definitely like an off season trade this is definitely not like a mid-season thing that would happen um yeah i think the the red sox especially after given Rafael the extension and just for how little money he's making and for how long he's club controlled. And how old is he? He's only 25. Yeah, I think they would really want to hang on to him for as long as possible here.

You start floating a mid-rotation starter with four years of club control and a top 100 prospect. You start floating those two guys around together. You'd be surprised how many doors can open. But I just, I don't think the Red Sox would do this. So maybe I'll go 55 instead of 60. But it's really good. I'll go 60. Yeah, it's in that range.

Yeah. Next trade here. 20. Boy, from Parsival. Gunner Henderson and Ryan Helsley from Michael O'Royle, Ryan Sloan, and George Kirby. 20. At the very least, the reason why I picked this trade was just because, like, typically when I see trades like this for like a superstar player or whatever, it's like,

yeah, here's all the stuff that I don't want for your superstar player, right? That's true. Yeah. You know, and this is at the very least, like, you're willing to trade two and a half years of an established number two, number three pitcher, a guy who is now being widely regarded as the best pitching prospect in all baseball and Ryan Sloan. Certainly top four or five. Yeah. Yeah. And so, like, yeah, you're actually willing to give up some stuff here for for Gunner.

But the Orioles are not going to trade out. fine, I'll go 30. Thank you for not being like, oh, yeah, give up Brock Rodden and Alex Hoppy and yeah, so I respect, I respect that. This is not realistic at all. Not from the Mariners side, not from the Orioles side.

No. But at the very least, it's not like super ridiculous, as ridiculous as these trades can tend to get. We've seen some crazy stuff, right? So, yeah, 30 for not being a complete idiot and at least give us something up. joy yeah uh all right our final trade of the day comes from lions it's a deal with the royals daniel lynch the left hand of reliever who is striking out a lot of guys all of a sudden for the

royals uh for mason peters and corbin dickerson you guys really want to trade friend of the show mason peters i get it he's kind of like the go-to like middle class prospect now in the maras farm system yeah he's kind of like the new michael morales even though michael morales is still around, but he's better than that guy. But he's still like the go-to, like, throw it. Number 12, number 13 prospect of the Maris Farm system. Yeah. Sure. I mean, I think he's a little better than that, but yeah.

Sure. He's a new middle class poster boy. Yeah. I don't know if a middle-class guy is going to get it done for Daniel Lynch. Not that, well, not with the year he's having. Yeah, because he's a lefty who strikes out a lot of guys. That carries a lot of weight. And also, if you're the Mariners, you have two really good lefties in your bullpen right now. That doesn't mean you shouldn't carry a third.

But let's look at how the Mariners have operated. They typically don't like to carry two. Like them being willing to carry two is relatively new to them. Are they going to carry three? Should they carry three? Should they be open to carry three? Yeah, absolutely. If you have three studs, like, okay, who cares?

If they're all left-handed, will they? I kind of have doubts. Yeah. And he's had a little bit of an issue against Ritey's. Like the numbers are definitely nowhere near as good as they are against lefties. Ritees are hitting 229, 327, 417 against them. So you got to wonder if he's a little bit of a lugie, you know. But again, you know, it's left-handed strikeouts.

Can't argue with that. That's valuable. Yeah. It just, Corbyn Dickerson is such a, you know, polarizing prospect because if you think he can hit, like he can carry a trade package, but there's also plenty of reason to think he can't hit or he won't hit. And at that point, if you think,

if you're really convinced he can't hit, he's a worthless player. He flames out in double A. So when you put him in trade packages, it's really hard for me to value him because I don't know how the other teams are going to value him because I don't know how I value him right now. So this is a really tough trade. because you might be offering two middle class players or you know you might be offering two players

the royals have absolutely no interest in whatsoever and they wouldn't even they wouldn't even consider them to be top 20 guys in their bad farm system you know so it is a bit tough i my my gut is is that they would want a little more like a michael or royo maybe that to be the headliner here and i don't think i'm only to do that for lynch now with the shallow track record um peters and dickerson if they got Lynch for that. That'd be fine. Yeah, I'd be well. I wouldn't be thrilled, but I'd be like, okay, yeah, that makes sense.

So, yeah. 50, 45, 50? Yeah, I'm a little hesitant on Lynch just because this is so new. Yeah. And now this very well might be just who he is now, because the move to the bullpen for him has been fairly recent. Sure. I assume, again, I haven't.

done a ton of research and digging on on lunch so i don't know if he's made any tweaks or whatever you i would assume that he's made some tweaks though here that's led to the significant uptick and strikeouts because you know last year in his first full season pitching out of the bullpen and 67 and two-thirds he was just running a a case per nine of five nine nine now all of a sudden that's up to 10 three six like yeah that's yeah yeah Yeah. So, I mean, and again, like that very well might be real. It's just, yeah, that gives me a little bit of a pause. And again, like he, and again, you know, there is a, there is a little bit of a split disparity here as well. So. I think Peters and Dickerson would be fine for lunch. I wouldn't complain about that if that happened. Totally would get it. Not sure if the Royals would do that, though, like you said. and if they would want more for lunch, I think I might pass.

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