Locked On Mariners - Daily Podcast On the Seattle Mariners - Crossover With Javier Reyes of Locked On Padres

Episode Date: April 6, 2021

Javier Reyes and D.C. Lundberg join forces for this dual episode. Javi has a lot of questions about the Seattle Mariners, a team that he's excited about. How good a candidate is Mitch Haniger for Comeback Player of the Year? And with a lot of the M"s younger prospects at the big league level, how does the farm system look. D.C. then asks about Blake Snell, the Seattle-area native -- from D.C.'s former hometown, no less -- and also asks about former Mariners Austin Nola and Dan Altavilla. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Today on Locked on Padres. It's also Locked on Mariners. Woo! Welcome to this Locked on Padres, Locked on Mariners crossover episode. And now here are your hosts, Javier Reyes and D.C. Lundberg. Yes, indeed. That was Locked on Mariners announcer, Joey Martin, bringing you into both Locked on Padres and Locked on Maritors.

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I am D.C. Lundberg, the semi-capable host of Locked-on Mariners, and I am joining one of the few hosts here on Sloppin who can make me seem like a straight-laced, no-nonsense news presenter by comparison. Javier Reyes, how are you doing today? I'm doing great, man. You're too kind. You're too kind. Doing great on this.

We're recording on a Friday. I'm vibing. A rare day off, I must say. I decided to take today because I'm going to be working for the weekend, but nothing better than to hop on a podcast with you, sir. I must say. I'm very excited about this because our teams, they have a similarity, but not a similarity most people might be aware of.

Yeah, I think I know we are going with this. And I think the two teams' profiles are rather similar, although the Padres are ahead of the Mariners. The Padres went through something of a rebuild a little while ago, which has already come to fruition. Their young prospects are already in the big leagues and doing great things. Not that I'm thinking about Fernando Tatis Jr., but I am. And one person that I wanted to ask you about, actually, do you want to talk about the Mariners or Padres first? I'll give you the choice. We're just doing this on the fly, ladies and gentlemen.

Yeah, as you guys can tell. Honestly, I'd like to go Mariners first because your team is, admittedly, the most... I don't know if you saw the SB Nation documentary on the history of the Seattle Mariners. Jason Hernandez tried to get me to watch that thing, and it just kept slipping my mind. I haven't watched it. It is long. It is long. It's not the longest document.

This is no OJ made in America, but it's still long, so I understand. And it's fantastic. And I really do think that the Mariner's, and I'm saying this objectively, like one of the more bizarre, weird, fun, absurd teams in all of sports. So honestly, whenever I get a chance to talk about the Mariner's, I'm always game. It's always a lot of fun. So I'm looking forward to this whole thing. All right.

Well, if you got any questions about the Mariners, Fire away, sir. So first question, believe it or not, because I'm, I'm a believer. I'm a believer. I'm going to hit you not with the, I'm not no Kyle Lewis and oh, who's the Taylor Trammell, who is formerly a prospect of the Padres. We'll save those questions for us. Instead, I want to start out. How much of a breakout potential candidate? I don't even know if it's breakout, but maybe comeback. Candidate is Mitch Hanager this year, because I am a believer. What about you? I'm also a believer. He looked pretty good in spring training. He was moving real well. The Mariners have him hitting lead off this year. Was going to be JP. he had a very bad spring. Mitch Hanninger did hit leadoff a little bit before he got injured and basically missed, you know, a season and a half. 2019, he went through so much, he only hit 220. In his two previous seasons combined, I think he hit something like 284 with pretty good on base and good power numbers. Hit more home runs than I thought he was going to. I thought he was going to be more of a gap power guy, but I think he

hit 26 one season. I could be wrong about that. And he's finally healthy. two sports hernia surgeries and the other problem that he had, he's back. I think he's back and I do think he's a good comeback player of the year candidate. I think he hit the nail on the head. Yeah, Hanager, the one year, oh, I forgot what year it was again. He was really, really good and it's basically just been this one of those guys that's been really, like you said, derailed by injuries, unfortunately. I think he was a borderline All-Star the last time he was kind of healthy.

and this marriage team. He was. Okay, there you go. And he was like literally the only good call that I had heading into that year. I was like, I don't know, man, Mitch Hanager, there's something about this guy. Was it predicated on the fact that I drafted him in fantasy baseball? Maybe. Maybe. Yes.

I'm not going to confirm that that was the reason I had to bias towards Mitch Hanigur, but it was definitely one of the reasons, I guess. But it's exciting. I have to wonder, though, the other thing is on top of Mitch Hanigur, like. Or Manninger. as I like to call them. Yeah. What is kind of the, I guess, perspective?

What is the mission? What is the kind of hope for the Mariners this season? Because it's a rebuilding team, losing a lot of players. You guys had your moment. Unfortunately, the Astros. Kind of unfortunately, at the same time that you guys started getting good, it feels like they really start to break out. You get Alex Bregman and all those guys.

You know, what is kind of the mission slash, I don't know, upside of the Mariners team for this 2020? season. I don't know if there is much. Well, I shouldn't say that because there is upside for this 20-21 season. There's certainly a young team. There's certainly a developing team. Kyle Lewis is even a work in progress. Look at his second half numbers from last year. They were terrible. You know, he had such a hot start last year, and that really propelled him to rookie of the year, but he still needs to develop. He will develop. I'm not saying he's going to fall off the face of the earth. He'll be fine. Evan White, I think, is going to have a better season

than he did last year. He couldn't possibly be worse, actually. But it's a development year, and I kind of see this team hovering around 500, probably slightly less. However, they could put it together earlier than I predict, and they could wind up with the wind total in the mid-80s. I think it is possible, unlikely, but possible. Depends on the bullpen. Yeah, oh, yeah, the bullpen, too. You guys had for the longest time, Fernando Roddy, or it might have only been a year, but it felt like the longest time. Fernando Roddy, the all-timers. It felt, yeah, the all-time, like, I mean, don't get me wrong, the swag with the hat snapback and everything was great, but that guy just managed to be a closer for years. My dude would have a 4.5 ERA, but he'd get those like 30 saves. It was kind of remarkable, honestly, and it was befitting almost of the Mariners culture. It was frustrating. I have to ask you.

Yeah, I imagine it was really frustrating. And Edwin Diaz here. Ooh. Very, I make fun of him all the time when it comes to the Mets where I have to, I have to, I have to, I have to. I swear. That guy is awesome. I don't know about the Marinus. When he was the Marinus, he was just genuinely one of the best closures in baseball. He probably was the best closer in baseball that one year.

That one year, yeah. The Mariners trade him to the Mets, and I'm wondering what the hell they're doing. And then he goes on post to six and a half a year, right? And I'm like, yay! No. Yeah, yeah. Not yay that he failed. Yay that the trade doesn't look so bad anymore.

Yeah, exactly. I want Dias to be successful. I want to make that clear. I like Edwin Diaz. And he's really good. Like, he really is good. The strike rapporteur is out. stuff is really awesome, but I have to

What I'm always make fun of this. He had great control his last season as a mayor to go along with the power pitching. He wasn't somebody who was just going out there and throwing and blowing hitters away. He was fooling guys and he had a good slider to go along with it. Yeah, and he was one of those guys where, I think the previous

year, he had like those games where he just blew up and was really bad and then he obviously follows it up. He was one of those guys that, yeah, he has those blow-up type of games, but he kind of returns, reverts back, you know, regression to the mean, I guess you could say, for him to a degree. And then he goes to the Mets, and I always make fun of him because he's like awesome,

what you're up by five. When you're up by one, he was just terrible. Not with the Mariners, but with the Mets last year, like in the subway series against the Yankees. He blew this big safe. He was on fire for like literally a month. And then they give him the close roll because I believe, I could be wrong, Seth Lugo, like couldn't pitch that game. And then he gives up the game tie called Bruns to the Yankees,

which was kind of a perfect summation of the Mets season last year. but this isn't a Mets podcast, obviously. No, it's not. You know, I mentioned, I alluded to it earlier, Taylor Chamele, and also Ty France, who a lot of people are really high on as former Padres, of course. What is kind of your feeling on both of them? Because I'm rooting for Taylor Chamele, who I think is a great personality for sure. Shouts to his interview on the baseball barbecue podcast, which was phenomenal.

I really loved their interview with him. Clearly a very fun personality, and I'm rooting for him. Although the prospect hype on him, I think, has cooled off to. just a little bit. What is your kind of feeling on, and Ty France heading into this 2021, hopefully great season? I think it's cold off a lot, actually, and I think it's warranted, because if you look at his numbers in the higher levels of the minor leagues, they're really not very good. However, he put together one of the most impressive springs that any Mariner had. He wasn't even expected to make the opening day roster. He goes out and just takes a left field job,

steals that away from, well, I shouldn't say steals because Jake Fraley did not have a very good start to his spring. But even if Fraley would have been good, Tramel would have been the starting left fielder. He had that good of a spring. His Major League debut, as we were recording this last night, I thought was very impressive, even though he went over three. One of them was a productive out where he moved the runners along. He drew a very impressive basis-loaded walk in the eighth inning, later scored the tying run that inning, and then drew a walk in the 10th inning as well, and had an outfield assist where he had to range pretty far over to the right field side of center, just to get to the ball. I like what I saw for him, and it seems like he's finally put everything

together, and I'm so happy about that. Ty France flies under the radar, even for me sometimes, which should not happen because the man can hit. He hit over 300 in the abbreviated season last year. He's at everywhere he's been in the minor leagues, he's going to be the mayor's DH this year. I think he's got a chance to be the third baseman next year, because I don't think Kyle Seeger's going to be back. His contract expires and it'll be 34 next season. The guy can hit. He's a pure hitter and that's fun to watch. But we've got to take a little bit of a pause at this time.

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He's number two, okay. It's got to be like, someone told it to me, because someone asked me back before preseason last year. Like, who did I think, do I think Mani Machado will break the record? Was one of the questions that somebody asked me. I was like, I don't know. I think he will because it's not a very high total. It's a Nate something.

I think it's a Nate something. It is a Nate. Yeah, it is. I'm blaking on the name. Ah! Nate Colbert. You got it, sir. Nate Colbert with 163 home runs in his six seasons as a Padre.

He'd only 10 home runs in his remaining four years with other teams. Adrian Gonzalez is number two, just two behind Mr. Colbert at 161. Number three is Phil Nevin at 156. Number four, the great Dave Winfield, 154, who I saw at the airport on the way home from a Hall of Fame ceremony. Gwyn's number five, Ryan Clesco, number six, Ken Caminetti, number seven. Current Padre Will Myers, number eight at 111, then Hunter Renfro and Chase Headley. Nice, nice. Hunter Redfro, what a guy.

Yes. Coming up, has a member of the Padre's coaching staff walked away from the team to pursue his dream of becoming an exotic dancer? No, but it sure would be an interesting story, now wouldn't it? Transitions are phenomenal. I'm not going to lie. Welcome back to this Locked-on Mariners, Locked-on Padres crossover episode. And now back to your hosts, D.C. Lundberg and Javier Reyes. Guys, we're back now here. Super crossover, the crossover, maybe you might not have expected, considering our two teams haven't played just yet.

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Yes. I have one final question. It is not as exciting a question. I admit it. It's an exciting question maybe for you, but I got to ask it. where is the Mariners kind of farm system right now? Because I think that's the big thing with them.

With a rebuilding team, what is kind of on the horizon for them? Because we already talked about Taylor Tremel and guys like Thai France. They do have some young players, but what does it look like for the future for them? Actually, I think the farm system still looks pretty good. And I also want to take this opportunity to thank you for asking basically none of these questions were asked of me by the other hosts. So unique questions, I appreciate that. And I'm sure the lockdown Mariners listeners appreciate that as well. Because as these crossovers go, the other hosts tend to ask the exact same questions.

That didn't happen this year with all five crossovers, and I am so happy. The farm system looks pretty good. I think there are three starting pitchers up and coming. One of them has never played a minor league game since he was drafted last year. One of them is expected to be in the major leagues later on this season, and that's Logan Gilbert. So I think the future on the mound looks pretty good, which is a good thing, because I think the present on the mount, specifically in the bullpen, is a giant question mark. But the one name that I think most are familiar with, and this has nothing to do with pitching,

Jared Kellnick. Jared Kalnick, stud. Yeah, he is a stud. It was looking to me like he was going to make the Major League roster along with Taylor Trammell. That was not the plan for him. They were going to start him in the minor leagues, basically however he did in spring. He looked great in spring, and he's probably also going to be on the Major League roster. later on the season, maybe sooner rather than later.

That kind of presents an interesting issue that the Mariners are going to have in the outfield. Jake Fraley, or Ace Freely, as I like to call him, he is probably going to get sent down when Kyle Lewis returns from his knee injury. That'll leave Taylor Trelland left field, who is off to a good start. I know it's only one game as of the time of this recording, but I thought he played great. Kyle Lewis in Centerfield, reigning rookie of the year.

Still a work in progress, but man, can he play Centerfield? and when he's on, he's on. And Mitch Hanigar, the veteran presence in right field. Where's Jared Kelnick going to play if he comes up? Who are they going to? You cannot move anybody to first base. Evan White is there. Another work in progress, but he is the Major League first baseman at this point.

You know, two of them are left-handed throwers, so you can't try him at third base or anything like that. I am very interested to see what the Mariners are going to do once Jared Kelnick comes up to the Major League level. and Jake Fraley played well last night. He may have put it all together. He's another outfield prospect. That's five viable Major League outfielders that the Mariners have.

There's obviously not enough room for them. I kind of went off on a tangent, but I'll be very interested to see what the Mariners will do if they want to replenish some of that farm system by maybe trading somebody away for a pitcher or something like that. I'm not sure who they have up and coming in terms of infielders, but they have a catcher named Cal Raleigh, who they're very high on, They love the way he handles a pitching staff, which cannot be quantified in any sort of statistics and numbers. So the catching situation of the future also looks pretty good.

They also like his power potential. So the Mariners farm system looks good on the mound, looks excellent in the outfield, infield a little questionable and behind the plate also looking pretty good. Well, I'm happy to hear that. I'm happy to hear that because the Mariners are in, I don't know if it's that great a division, but it's certainly a division where they probably aren't expected to catch up with with the Astros and especially the Oakland A's teams that are super deep. And even in Texas who is truly miserable at every regard, at least it seems like the

Mariners, you know, they've got some hope. And I hope they bounce back because like I said, I am a fan of just the franchise history. I'm a fan of their weirdness. I always like weird crap in baseball. But, you know, really hoping for the Mariners to kind of at some point be good. And I'm wondering if Kyle Lewis, who really, like you said, start off, awesome first half of 2020. A little bit out of nowhere.

It kind of reminds me a little bit. This is an extremely bad cop, but it came to my mind of like the Eric Tames breakout when that happens where it was this kind of older-ish guy who, now Eric Tames came from across the pot. I forgot where he was playing exactly and kind of came in there and had a really nice moment. I'm wondering, hopefully, he doesn't necessarily go that direction, but Kyle Lewis, it feels like almost a little bit too out of nowhere.

I don't know if that's a good copper dot. to me, whatever, but it came to my mind. I don't know. The only reason I'm laughing is because Eric Tames is a former mariner and did not have the best half-season as a mariner, if I recall. Kyle Lewis is, I think he's 24 or 25. So he's one of

the older prospects. He lost basically a year and a half for two years of minor league time with a pretty bad leg injury. And the Mariners thought that that was going to limit him to a corner outfield position, but they decided to try him in center field anyway in summer camp last year.

played a great center field, obviously played a great center field during the regular season as well. So he's still young. He's still a work in progress. Like you said, the hot start. He hit 368 in the first half and 150 in the second half, and a strikeout rate went to 43%. He's got to work on that. And I think if this season had been, had it been a full season, I think he probably would have worked out some of those problems. It would at least given him the chance to do so. He's not a 150 hitter, but he's also not a 368 hitter. His season average wound up being about 262. And I see him peaking probably about 275 or 280 when things are said and done for a full season with a good gap power, maybe 25, 30 doubles, and about 25 home runs. Those are excellent numbers

from a center fielder who's going to give you outstanding defense. Absolutely bad. And, you know, I feel like I've asked you all the questions that I really have about the merit is, but I still need to re-emphasize, like, it is a team I'm genuinely a fan of, and I think that baseball is, well, it's not a team that is going to make the headlines, usually, unless you guys sign for some reason and get like nine superstar

players. It's not a team that's going to make the headlines. Or unless our CEO says something really awful. Yeah, which we've, there it is, everybody drink, that we finally kind of alluded to the Ken Bathers situation. Absolutely deplorable in a lot of ways. And it happened, like, kind of sort of before the season,

so that derailed a little bit of any excitement people might have had. But still. I also feel like they came back from it really quickly and moved on from it. Since he is gone, if he was still there, there would be a completely different situation. He's gone. I'm glad he's gone.

I should not have brought it up. I was not going to. I apologize for that. The less airtime that clown gets the better, quite honestly. But that is how the Mariners made headlines in the off season, and everyone really wishes that they hadn't. Not great to be known for that. But like you said,

it is good that they were able to move past. There are other teams in baseball right now. with their own situations. We could look at Mickey Carlewood and all these other guys that it hasn't quite been settled and it's still an issue or rather. But everybody, yes, if you were wondering, if you got your bingo card ready, yes, Ken Bathers was kind of alluded to on this podcast. But now, D.C., you got any question for my superstar team that I am unbelievably lucky

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Follow Lockedon Fantasy Baseball on the Odyssey app or wherever you get podcasts. D.C. Lundberg and Javier Reyes, the hosts of Locked on Mariners and Locked on Podres, respectively, in this crossover episode. You alluded to something at the beginning of the show where the Mariners and Padres are similar teams in one regard that most people might not realize. And this dates back to, I think, 1994. Our two teams share a spring training facility, which is why I thought it might be kind of a nice blend to start off the season, because the Mariners and Padres becomes somewhat familiar with each other during spring training. And speaking of the Padres, you guys made a couple of off-season season.

splashes, as it were, one trade, one free agent signing. The first gentleman I'm going to ask about is from my former hometown, and that would be Shoreline's very own Blake Snell. He went to the other high school in my district. He's a Shorewood kid, and I'm a Shorecrest kid. I'm not going to hold that against him, but I'm still... How's Blake Snell doing? Blake Snell, man. What a guy. I mean, they've been... Padre's Twitter, if anybody's familiar, they've been sharing the videos of his rap videos apparently that he started, which not going to lie, I just saw that for the first time that long before recorded this. And it's phenomenal. He strikes me as this guy who's like, he's got the bro personality, but without the duchness almost. You know what I mean? And

that's what's so exciting about it. It's just, and he's been in the news a little bit, heading into 2020. He made some comments like on Twitch where it was the Players Union versus the Major League Baseball and the whole shortened season. And he was like, you know, I'm not doing no thing for this. the amount of money. I'm not trying to, you know, pay for less and all this thing. And I thought that actually, personally, I thought he made a great point. However, maybe wrong language, I think, and that's kind of describes Blake Snell a little bit where it was like, I think his points are really great. I think he's a smart dude to a degree in a different way, but maybe the way he described it was a little bit insensitive given that this is like two weeks, three weeks into a worldwide

pandemic where people are wondering if they're going to have any money whatsoever and you kind of made it sound like you're complaining about, you know, $2 million a year, which is basically what it sounds like. But I do think he had a point. Now, in terms of the baseball stuff, obviously, that part aside. Can I say one thing? There's one more thing that's more controversial that he said a few years ago. And another show that I did, this was our lead story.

He once said on Twitter, In-N-Out Burger is overrated. So here's a thing, Matt. D.C., I don't know if you know this. But I'm on that, I mean, he probably does know this, but I'm on that East Coast wave. So for me, the East Coasters, we're all about the Shake Shack. We're all about the Shake Shack when it comes to local things.

And here is my take. I went to Shake Shack once in high school. I don't remember it too much. That could be because, you know, maybe I was more focused on just talking to the girl that I really liked that was on the field trip with us and I didn't really care about the food. Your mind was in the right place then.

Yeah, I mean, I tried and failed as well. we all do. But don't worry guys, look at me now. I'm hosting Locked Up Audrey. Oh, yeah. How you like me now? It would be in DC. But, you know, I haven't really tried it enough. In and out, I've heard mixed things. There was a video that blew up a while ago where they were like, this is average. It was a really funny video. I think it was on TikTok, if I'm not mistaken. Sorry to scare off all the older viewers or listeners, I guess, with them mentioned TikTok. But it feels like there's both,

respectively both ShakeShack and In and Out. Some biases there. where people want to make themselves feel a little bit more important because it's the only place that you can get their thing. So bottom line, guys, I'm Team Taco Bell, Live Moss, baby. It's clearly superior. And I don't want to hear it with all the people who are like, oh, it gives me a tummy ache. Well, first of all, controversial position,

maybe it might be good to go to the bathroom every once in a while. I enjoy that. It's the only good thing life has to offer sometimes. Now I'm getting a little bit crude on this podcast. And also, Taco Bell, they've got like three ingredients, and they make 45 different items. So all of the respect to Taco Bell. I'm mad at them for getting rid of the Mexican pizza.

That was my favorite. I wish that would come back. And I will say, as I was writing my belt bar ad, I almost closed it by saying Liv Moss instead of mm-mm-mm-good. And now I wish I had. No joke. I have tried In-N-Out Burger. I've been to California once.

And I liked it, but I do have to agree with Blake's Nell. It is overrated, but something can be overrated and good. plus he might have been comparing in and out to Dix, which is the local burger stand, local chain in the Seattle area, very, very good French fries. Wish we had them over here in the Spokane area. I'm digressing. So we talked about Blake Smell.

Smell. Blake Snell. Good grief. You Darvish is now a Padre. I don't recall any really key players that the Padres lost. Am I wrong about that? To a degree. For the Blake Snell trade, they had to give of Luis Pettino,

who was one of, of I describe as one of their like golden eggs. Like they gave up prospects, don't get me wrong, but I think they had about four golden prospects, which were Luis Petino, McKenzie Gore, C.J. A. Abrams and Luis Campizano. They gave up one of those. However, more than worth it. They gave up one of those guys for a guy who's established and some people would say his Syung season is a little bit of an aberration. Some people would say that's not going to happen again. But to those people I say he's still young and honestly some non-emperical statistical type of reasoning here who knows what he's going to

learn from this is pitching staff one of the things that i love so much about the podries pitching staff adding you darvish like you just mentioned is that you darvish blake snell in his rap videos and his weird way of talking his swagger way of talking he talks like a dude who just found out what the term yellow meant uh like it's a lot of fun and then even guys like mike clevenger who my hair doppelganger yeah there you go like he's still he does give me some hashtag free thinker vibes when I look at some of his things on social media, but I still love the guy.

He's still interesting. You know what I mean? And then Darvish and then Denelson Lemette and then Chris Paddock and Adrian Monaghan. Like all these guys. And then Joe Musgrove. See, I'm already forgetting some names right now. That's what happens sometimes when I discussed the Padres. I forget to talk about Thai France so we're even. Exactly.

We have an eclectic group of personalities, I think, and who knows what he might learn from those guys in. Some people say in my opinion a little bit, fraughtfully, a little bit unfairly, they're like, oh, well, he's not, he's a little, he's not as good third time around the order. It's like, all right, a lot of pitchers aren't.

Most pictures aren't. Yeah, most pitchers are, and he's got a Tsayung to his name, to be fair. So, Blake Snell, absolutely an awesome addition for the Padres, and he's under contract for a few years. The current Padres team under construction is going to be the same for a little bit, which is kind of crazy to think about. Like, they really have all of their places,

their pieces in place, I should say, mix it up a little bit there. So he's really exciting to have on the team. I'm expecting big things from this year. Maybe he'll be able to exact revenge on the Tampa Bay Rays for taking him out in that game six. Obviously, the biggest story probably that happened in the playoffs.

Honestly, I think he might have a chip on his shoulder and he might remember that and use that as motivation going forward. Kevin Cash. Kevin Cash. You know, it's just, that's the thing with baseball sometimes. He got this dude and probably his Colgate Princeton shirt sitting 25 years old. He's in that room. Oh, take out Blake Snell.

It's like, bro, he was dealing, man. It was just wrong. The Dodgers saying that they were excited that he got taken out. I think Spick's ballings to that. But anyway. Yes, yes. Yeah, that was a whole other thing. But like you said, just to wrap the kind of wrap a bow on it, yes, very excited about Blake Snell being brought to the team.

He's not in terms of his contract based on his caliber of a pitcher. the fact that it's three more years under control. And he's still young enough, I believe, 27, if I'm not mistaken. I could be wrong on that. I think it's 28, but it could be wrong. 28. 27, 28. Well, there is actually a big difference when you're talking about prospects.

Fairness, yeah. But under control for 11 million this year, I believe he makes around 14, 15. But when you look in the club control, it's one of the better bargains in the league. So that's why they had to give up Luis Petino, which I'm fine with. You're hoping Luis Petino becomes a guy like Blake Snow. And the pagers are clearly slanted towards being a win-now team. So it was exciting. And what's crazy is like you mentioned with the Darvish thing.

That all happens within a 24-hour span. And after the Blake's Snell deal, you know, Dennis Flynn of the athletic, shouts to him, Kevin A.C. of a San Diego tribunal. They're like, oh, yeah, by the way, they're also probably going to make a U-Darvish deal within the next day. So it was, to put it, I've said this on like every podcast I've been on, but I got to reiterate. Just an unbelievably exciting time, and then they also signed Hassan Kim. So really, this rotation is going to be really awesome.

Everyone wants to talk about Tatis for sure and Mani Machado, but the rotation is very, very deep. And I don't know if everyone fully realizes that. I know I do, but it's one of the reasons that the Padres are World's Youth Contenders is here for sure. Yeah, I mean, Fernando Tatis, one of the most exciting young players in the game. I'm sure that you talked about him on the other crossover episodes and Mani Machado too, so I'm not even going to bother. Plus, we're low on time,

but I have one more question very quickly, if you don't mind. How are Austin Nola and Dan Altavilla doing in San Diego, two former Mariners? Altavilla had a pretty checkered career as a mariner. It reminded me something of Bobby Ayala where he would get excited and tend to overthrow, but after he went to the Padres, it looked like the change of scenery

might have done him some good. So Altavilla is a little bit not great right now. I believe he's hurt, actually, if I'm not mistaken. I'm forgetting on that. but the bigger, and then Austin, Dull also is hurt right now, duh. So not great. The pieties are a little bit in the red

when it comes to the deals they made at the trade deadline. You know what I mean? With Austin Null, with Mike Clevenger, who's not pitching this year, but could pitch next year, obviously he's really good. And then guys like Mitch Morland are gone, and then guys like Jason Castro,

who's not even on the team, if I'm not mistaken, anymore. So a lot of the moves they ended up making it at the deadline, did it pan out too much. But still, with Austin Nola, the thing with Nola that's interesting is I actually think there's a good chance that the aforementioned Luis Campizano, maybe by season, maybe by the middle of the season, could end up being the starting catcher for the Padres. He's their top catching prospect.

Okay. Questionable defense, it's hard to judge defense when it comes to catchers a little bit when they're coming up in the system. I'm terrible at it personally. Yeah. I remember trying to play catcher at Little League. Like, I dropped like every single ball. It was just, it was really rough.

I could catch. I couldn't throw, but I couldn't catch. I'm terrible at judging catchers. And if I have one fault in evaluating baseball talent, it's catching. Yeah. And in fairness, it's a position that a lot of people struggle with. But in terms of his bat, a lot of people are excited when it comes to Luis Campesano. It could be an offensive kind of force.

Hopefully he can be. I know he hit a home run and one of his first at bats for the team in 2020, which is really exciting. but in general we'll have to see. For now though, Nola is just kind of like a placeholder, maybe a little bit better than a placeholder. We're hoping he fractured his finger on his throwing arm, but he's expected to be back pretty quickly. Right now, Victor Keratini, Puerto Rican Power,

who's the personal catcher for U.Darvish. He's probably going to hold down the fort until then until in Austin Nola gets back. But Caratina, hey, he had three RBI game in the opening day, so he was very good. And honestly, if you have Victor Keratinny as your backup catcher, you're probably in a good spot. Not too long ago, 2019, like a 340 on base, which is for a catcher, extremely good, especially based on where the position is currently in the league, especially as a backup.

So fully excited for him. Yeah, I don't know. Austin Nola, very fun to see how he kind of converted to catcher. And Aaron Nola, obviously, being his brother, who's got a little bit higher of a pedigree and respect around the league. He's kind of like an ace superstar pitcher, but... Yeah, and here's to think. Aaron's younger. Austin Nola's the older brother, came to the major leagues later than Aaron did, and I liked his first season as a Mariner.

Here's the thing about Nola. Yeah, he was a full-time starter last year until he was traded, but that was such a short season. It was a small sample size. Who knows if he can be a full-time catcher? I think that still remains to be seen. I think he's a great backup, though, given his offensive skill and his versatility. He can play all four infield positions,

remember he came up as a shortstop. Agreed, agreed. And that's what they're hoping from, I think, to a degree. They obviously, the Padres are a very deep team, and they don't have to worry about moving him around or anything like that. But they're hoping that he can just be this versatile type of catcher that can do a lot of different things, I think. And he was not great when he got trade to the Padres last year. No, he wasn't.

But to a degree, I almost don't care because the Padres were relying on guys like Francisco Mejia and Austin Hedges for years. and there was a Padres' Twitter debate on who should we start, whatever. For the record, I was a pro-Mahia guy. I thought, why not? Just give him a shot. Who cares? Austin Hedges couldn't hit the ball if he had, I don't know, a giant sledgehammer from

Reinhardt and Overwatch, like he couldn't hit the ball. But, you know, I was, I'm optimistic that Nolan when he comes back will be at least an average catcher offensively. And defensively, not too bad. Pitch-framing stats on stat cast said that he was actually pretty good. And he actually threw out some more runners when he was. got to the Padres. So hopefully he can continue that pace until Campizano is ready, which I assume is the team's long-term plan. His catching is still a work in progress. He's only been catching

for a few seasons, started that in 2017, I believe, in the Marlin system. One more quick thing before we wrap up, and this just popped into my head. Austin Nola is the type of player who could play all nine positions in a major league baseball game. It hasn't been done in a few years, and I think it would be exciting if we got to see that again. But we're past time. That's got to do it unfortunately. Tomorrow on Locked on Mariner's, I will be joined by Bill Gannon, Mr. Ed, and a retreaded snow tire. You will not want to miss that conversation, gang. It will be delightful. So download rate and follow both Locked on Mariner's and Locked on Podres. Look for us on any podcasting app that may spring into your brainhead. Bring us home, Javi. All my fire faithful

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Of course I did. Of course I won it, obviously. I mean, I'm totally not lying right now. Incredible stuff. Very excited DC for the rest of the year. It's going to be a long season.

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