Locked On Mariners - Daily Podcast On the Seattle Mariners - Mailbag: Dream Lineups and Realistic Lineups For 2022

Episode Date: February 15, 2022

Hosts Ty Dane Gonzalez and Colby Patnode answer your questions, including what their dream/realistic lineups for the Mariners in 2022 are, if Luis Torrens could be sought after by National League teams and more.Be sure to follow or subscribe to Locked On Mariners wherever you prefer your podcasts! For questions and other inquiries, email: [e-mail] the show on Twitter: @LO_Mariners | @danegnzlz | @CPat11For more of Ty and Colby, check out their Patreon: patreon.com/controlthezone/Built BarBuilt Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKED15,” and you’ll get 15% off your next order.Rock AutoAmazing selection. Reliably low prices. All the parts your car will ever need. Visit RockAuto.com and tell them Locked On sent you.BetOnlineBetOnline.net has you covered this season with more props, odds and lines than ever before. BetOnline – Where The Game Starts! 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.

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where we talk about the Mariners even more and also get into some non-baseball talk twice a week. Visit patreon.com for its Control the Zone for more information on that. If you are interested, and on today's episode of Lockdown, Mariner's, it's Mailbag Monday. We got about 10 questions from you via Twitter and our email. So we're going to be answering those over the course of the next 30 minutes or so.

And if this is your first time joining us, welcome to the show. If you like what you hear, give us a follow or subscribe. Wherever you listen to this, we'd greatly appreciate it. So let's start Colby with the questions that we got via email. The first one here on our list is from Benjamin who says, Hey guys, I have a question for you about the infield situation. This may have been asked before.

If you could pick Matt Chapman, Chris Bryant, or Trevor Story, who are you taking and why? Which one fits the best in the geometry of their lineup and positionally? Thanks, Ben. So Colby, I'll let you kick this one off because I know you're a massive fan of Matt Chapman. and the other two you could live without, right? I mean, that seems like a bit of an oversimplification, but yeah, that's pretty much it.

Also, did we just get our first geometrical drop on the podcast? We did. We did. I'm not sure what you mean by that. Yeah, I've never heard someone describe roster construction as the geometry of the lineup. and position. Yeah, that's an interesting way to go about it.

And I'm going to take that. And now it's mine. I am co-opting that and not giving you any credit. So it's between Chapman's story and Bryant. Yeah. Chapman's dead last by a significant margin. I think if I had to pick between those three

I'm probably going to go Bryant's I feel a little bit better about the bat actually a lot better than I do stories bat and I'm willing to live with less defense at third base than the above average glove

I would get at second base and what might be a average bat okay so Brian and story to me, they're pretty interchangeable in terms of preference. I don't love either player. I have serious concerns about both of them, but I understand

that they make a lot of sense for the Mariners and where they're at. So I'd probably have it, Brian, like one story, 1A and then Chapman like 928th, but I think that's probably the order I would go. Yeah,

more or less where you're at. Like, here's the thing with story is that you're not going to play him at shortstop which severely caps his value at the end of day because he's he's arguably an elite defensive shortstop when he's healthy of course and there's obviously the question about his arm and that's why third base might not be an option for him um i'm a bigger believer in the bat of Trevor story than you are so i don't know i It's hard because Bryant

Bryant's really good as well and he plays third base naturally and you have a very clear need at third base whereas with second base you can rock with Adam Fraser who that's that's his natural position there at second and you can bring in you know Abraham Toro to play some third and play some second and all that stuff that kind of works the best.

I feel like Chris Bryant in general just makes the most sense and if you're talking about the geometry of the lineup and and you know how it works positionally i think chris brian is is probably the answer there even though i'm a bit more of a fan of story than brian but yeah i'd probably go bryant one story to chapman three chapman is just there's a lot of concerns there and the cost of acquisition is something that you have to to keep in mind as well and it doesn't seem like the a's are willing to deal him for cheap and at that point i'm probably saying no. So yeah, I think just in terms of how it all comes together, Bryant's the answer.

I would rather, even though I probably, I, if we're just talking about just, you know, comparing the players though, I would probably lean towards story. Like I like story more just as a player, but in terms of how it all fits, I think Brian, Bryant's the guy. Brian's just a little bit easier to fit, but it's not like you have to change drastically to fit story into your plans. And for Chapman, I would just say I would rather have Jonathan VR on a short-term deal than I would trade for Matt Chapman. Right.

Yeah. Yeah, I agree with that. So let's move on here to Justin. And by the way, thank you for the question, Ben. Justin wants to know, with the Universal DH officially being agreed upon, there will be, in theory, a lot of NL teams looking for an extra bat. I put some parentheses here. I could be completely wrong about that. Do you think we could trade for someone like Luis Turenz to a National League team for anything significant?

Colby, Luis Trenz is your boy, so I'll let you start on this. First of all, thank you for the question. Second of all, how dare you? I guess it kind of depends on what your definition of significant is. Because, you know, Teren's, he was very good when he was recall. last year, but overall, his track record is pretty spotty. So, like, are you going to get a mid-rotation starter for him? Probably not.

Could you get a pretty decent prospect? Yeah, probably. Could you get a good reliever or two? Yeah. I mean, could you get a fourth outfielder? Yeah, I think you could. You know, whether or not those are significant or not, that's really up to you. But even with the DH coming to the National League, we,

we still have to assume that the National League will follow the same kind of path that the American League has followed over recent years with the with the DH, which is just kind of rotating guys through that spot, right? It's not so much. The full-time DH days are very slowly coming to an end. There's still guys like J.D. Martinez and Nelson Cruz. But for the most part, teams want to use that DH to cycle through as many bats as they can and to get guys off their feet. If the National League follows suit, then Luis Turence not having a clear position right now still hurts his trade value. So it kind of depends on your definition of significant. Do I think you can get somebody who is a top four starter for you to start the year or a high leverage reliever and a good middle guy?

Probably not. But could you get something that maybe fits your team a little bit easier than Torentz and is still, you know, a good a good addition sure i think you probably could yeah i feel like turenz is probably best suited to be in a package for a bigger deal for the mariners he's like the third guy or fourth guy in a trade for the merriners that like really entices the team like ooh we also get louis turenz on top of all this other stuff you're giving us great like that's kind of how i see his trade value um i agree with you though like i think you could get something you usually useful for him, but is that going to outweigh what he brings to you offensively?

Maybe not. It's hard to really tell, though, because, like, we only have so much data on him offensively, which, like, so far, like, everything's good, you know, thumbs up on everything. But, yeah, there's, like, a little bit of concern that if you don't really know what his position is and then he regresses offensively, I mean like there goes his value pretty much completely out of the window. So that's a little bit of a concern. I have high hopes for for Luis Torenz offensively at least. We'll see how it all fits together defensively. For now, I think I think you're better served just to finish off here real quick though.

I think you're better served just keeping them for now. I mean, obviously the guy's going to hit, you know, 250 with 30 home runs this year. But in only like 100 games. But just to throw out like kind of a trade idea that he's, just kind of popped him into my head. The Brewers are a team that we've kind of speculated it makes sense for Nelson Cruz and they themselves have kind of thought that as well.

So would the Brewers trade somebody like Eric Lauer? Three years of Eric Lauer for five years of Torens, four years of Torens, whatever it is? Maybe. Lauer's, you know, he had a 404 FIP, a 319 ERA and a 1.7F4 and 118 innings. probably not going to get lower, but I think that's kind of what the mergers would have to get to

justify trading trends right now, unless they think he just cannot play defense anywhere at all. And maybe they do. Yeah, you know, Scott Service, I mean, we've talked about this before, but Scott Service said, like, they view him catching some in 2022.

So we'll see if that comes through. We've also heard some things that contradict that on, on Terenza's side that he doesn't really want to catch. So who really knows? we're really not going to find out until ultimately the lockout ends and we see him. You know, we see him in spring training. We see how he gets utilized whenever that may be. And we actually have a question about that.

Real quick, though, you know, thank you for the question, Justin. But moving on to Nick, who asks, what trade or free agent signing is most likely going to happen right after the lockout ends for the Mariners? And this is a question that we get asked quite a bunch. So we'll answer this quickly. for me it's hard to tell but the only thing that we heard that was like fairly close-ish you know and this this could be wrong but this is what we were told was a sunny gray trade apparently we I was personally told that it was about 80% done before the lockout happened between the the reds and the mariners I'm not sure if that fell apart or what have you but that was the latest I had there was also it also seemed like Trevor's stories market was ramping up along with Chris Bryant. So maybe that. Maybe there's something in place there that happens shortly after the lockout ends.

But it's hard to tell. It's hard to tell, especially with all the time that's passed. Yeah. That would be my guess. If I was betting money on it, it would be, I think it's going to be something fairly significant. So I would be Sonny Gray, maybe a Trevor Story or Chris Bryant signing. But, you know, if I had to pick one thing,

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like you do here every day. We greatly appreciate the support. Let's continue our weekly mailbag here with a question from J-Quah. This is our last email question of this week. Jay-Quah wants to know what would our Dream 2020 Mariner lineup look like and what would our realistic 2022 lineup look like? I mean, Dream. Show Hey, Otone, D.H.

I would put Trout in left. field and then put Acuna at center. Juan Soto and right. Of course. Yeah. Yeah. Probably do something like J.T. Real Muto catching.

Maybe Wilson Contreras backing up. Mm-hmm. Yeah. First base is going to be Matt Olson. No, Freddie Freeman. Yeah. I'll go Matt Olson, a bit younger. second base

Trey Turner Shortstop I'm going to go Tatis Yeah Yeah And then third base I am actually going to go

With the Xander Bogarts Ooh Ooh Yeah I actually like that That's the dream You know obviously rotation We're going to go

Jacob Graham Yep Shurzer You know We're going to go Walker Burenz. Yeah. Unless there's Sandy Alconra in there as a five, give other teams a shot.

Maybe Al Contra has a bad day. Sure. Sure. Yeah. You want the dream. That's the dream. Yeah. But no, seriously. To answer the question, I think, you know, you got to have Michael Conforto in there for the Mariners.

Chris Bryant and Trevor's story. I mean, that's kind of the thing that's been floated. out there. Over the last couple weeks, it's like, hey, maybe they, maybe they get both. You know, yeah, it's not going to happen. But like, that has been floated out there. So maybe. So you get Chris Ryan, you get Trevor Story and heck, throw in Michael Conforto in there.

Yeah, that lineup's looking pretty good. I mean, you're talking about, I mean, just going around the diamond. Oh, and the catching position is still, still rough. Oh, yeah. Okay. All right. So Carson Kelly is. your catcher. First base, Thai France, second base, Trevor Story, shortstop, JP, third base,

Brian. Chris Bryant, left field, Jared Kellnick. Yep. Um, center field, let's say Sayas Suzuki. Sure. And then right field Michael Conforto and then Hanager D.H. Yeah, Hanager D.H. Right. Like I, that would be the dream. Like that's just like completely out there. That's the dream. going to happen, but like, yeah. Like there, obviously there's still a path to that, you know? There's an actual path to that. Like none of those players. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, it's not.

Yeah. Yeah. Realistically, though, probably what it is right now, catcher. Yeah. First base, France. Second base. Fraser? Second base. Fraser. Yeah. Shortstop Crawford. third base Bryant left field um

comforto like realistic Suzuki and then Kelnick and center left left and again right yeah or I was going to say Kelnick and left Suzuki and center

Hanager and right sure Trens DH yeah yeah that's probably about right something like that yeah yeah if you prefer story to Brian just put story at second and move move Fraser over to to third.

So third. Yeah. Yeah. So I think that's fairly within the realm of of possibility and realism. Like,

yeah, because we're really in that instance, just adding Suzuki and Brian, which I think there's a decent chance they get two of the three guys. You know, when you're just talking about Suzuki Bryant's story.

I think there's a pretty solid shot that happens. I think you can get two, just not the two big ones. Like, I don't think you're getting any scenario where you're getting story and Brian, unless one of them just has to take a two-year deal or something like that.

Yeah, but even then it's like, you're looking at potentially 50, 60 million dollars added in payroll with just two guys right there for 2022. It's not even counting the pitching. And like they should do that. right like like just as a fan perspective like it's not my it's not my money like yeah absolutely do that

but uh is jerry depoto actually going to have that money at his depot as disposal probably not yeah i think yeah adding bryant suzuki maybe another bat like if you want like he wouldn't be in the starting lineup but like if if you want to push toro um or you want to push dillemore off the roster like maybe you had a jonathan of VR but I think adding Suzuki and Bryant to kind of what you have right now is probably the the best case realistic scenario. Yeah, agreed. All right.

So let's move on to Twitter. Daniel Francis wants to know. And by the way, Jayquah, thank you for your question. But yeah, Daniel wants to know any updates on Nick Margavages is there potential there? Will he be a contributing member of the Mariners or will we one day only remember his name because it sounds like more. cabbages. Okay.

I don't really remember Nick Margavages for that reason now to be quite wrinkled with you. But I really, to be honest with you, I don't know anything on the on the health of Nick Margavichist right now. They haven't really said anything publicly as far as I'm aware. And right now with the lockout, you know, there's not really a possibility to get any clarification on that. So unless, you know, Nick wants to share updates himself, which maybe he's doing right now. I don't know.

I haven't been keeping up with his social media presence if he has one. So to answer your question, frankly, no clue. But I wouldn't expect him to be a contributing member of the 2022 Mariners. I think they have enough depth pitching wise or at least a path to enough depth pitching wise where he doesn't really factor in at any given point. Like he might get a stint in the bullpen. He might make a spot start if he's healthy. But I feel like if that happens,

it's going to be pretty insignificant in the grand scheme of things. Yeah, I think the hope for Margavichis is that he does come back. He pitches well enough that you can flip him for something in July, probably something small. But Margavichus is just a guy got hurt at the wrong time. He'd stayed healthy all last year, and he would have pitched like he did in 2020. Pretty good chance that he's a really strong candidate to make the rotation out of spring training. And if not, he's an interesting trade chip.

But as things sit right now, he's probably fighting for his 40-man life in spring training. And it's not because he's not worthy of a 40-man spot. We've liked what we saw from him. in 2020. It's just that, you know, there's a crunch. And if he can't help you this year, sometimes you got to let a guy go that you don't want to. I mean, obviously, you could still do like Kevin Padlow or Jose Godoy or somebody like that.

But Mark Havage's spot isn't secure. So he's got to worry about making the team first and being healthy. And then I think perfect scenario is that he pitches pretty well for like eight to 10 starts or something. and you flip them for a bench bat or a bullpen arm, something else like that. I think that's probably ideal. Let's talk about BetOnline real quick and then we got some more questions about Julio Rodriguez,

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UFC odds right to the Olympic coverage and information. Head to the website today or use your mobile device to learn more about the trends and action. Bet online, where the game starts. All right. So we got four questions to go here for our weekly mailbag. Let's start with Brandon, who asks Tanner Scott or Colin Poshay interests you as a by-low option for another lefty out of the pen? I don't know. So you got to trade for both of these guys. Colby, what do you think? Pochet hasn't pitched since 2019.

That's a long time ago. And even when he was up in the big leagues, she was okay. He was pretty good. but it wasn't fantastic. You know, again, it's an elbow issue that kept him out for all of 2021. I believe he opted out of 2020, if I'm not mistaken. So it just, it's, it's been a long time. Actually, no, he had Tommy John surgery in 2020, and the recovery took longer than expected.

And so he didn't pitch last year. So, yeah, it's the one Tommy John issue. but again still at the end of the day hasn't pitched since 2019 Tanner Scott is a really good really you know electrifying lefty but over six walks per nine endings last year that's not control the zone at all and you know the mariners have taken chances on guys like that in the past are they going to do it now when they're supposed to be competing for a for at least a wild card spot seems unlikely but I can't rule it out entirely.

I just, I think Scott's going to end up costing a little bit more in trade than Pochet would. So if I had to pick one or the other, I'm probably going to pick Poe Shea, but I don't care about lefties in the bullpen. I just want guys who get lefties out. If they throw left handed, great. If they throw right handed, but they get lefties out, that's just fine too. Yeah, I'll save you the whole spiel on the, the lefty situation, because I've talked about that quite a bit because we've gotten asked questions about adding lefties to the pen quite a bit over the course of the soft season so uh just to answer the question directly uh

i'd probably prefer poche because i mean taking a flyer on him is fine i can't imagine it but cost a ton um trade wise like considering the fact that he's coming off of tj considering that he's not been amazing at really any given point in time in his career so if you want to take a flyer on him and the raise want to get them off of their roster sure um which i can see some meriden on on on tampa base side of things i can see them being interested in doing that for that for that point um but yeah overall not super like i'm not against adding neither guy it really just comes down to cost um but yeah if i had to pick one poche makes some some sense like he's kind of interesting to take a flyer on if he's not going to cost you you know if you know

he's going to cost you virtually nothing in a trade, then do it. Why not? Why not take a shot? So yeah. All right. Thank you for the question, Brandon. Let's move on to Rocheon,

who asks, is Julio Rodriguez allowed to play in AAA if the season is delayed? No, he is a member of the MLBPA now that he's been added to the 40-man roster. Therefore, he is locked out, just like the rest of the players that are on 40-man rosters right now. So, no,

he will not be allowed to play. until the CBA is agreed upon unless they you know unless the league and the PA is able to work you know so you know agree upon some work around um for the guys that haven't accrued any um any time at the major league level because Julia was added during the off season so he hasn't accrued any any sort of service time uh yet so maybe they're able to you know put in a work around there but um for those guys you know because there's going to be you know there's plenty other guys um you know, the just Julio. Alberto Rodriguez is another guy that just on the Mariners. That's in a similar situation. So maybe they come together on, yeah, one 10 as well. Yeah.

So that, that could be, that could be something that happens. But for now, no. That's not going to be the case. So, let's,

thank you again for the question, by the way. Roshan, let's move on to Josh, who has a picture. of questions and these will be our final questions of the show. What would your ideal lineup

look like using only Mariners prospects? Josh's second question is really more of a clarification that I asked for. It is one question. Again, the question as it's originally asked was kind of

open for interpretation. Like ideal lineup look like using only Mariners prospects. You mean, are you trying to win a game in 2022 or are you just you know in the future and like is gilbert you consider gilbert a prospect even though he's not you consider because it seems like you would have to and so i just ask clarifying questions and so the question is as it currently sits who are the best and closest prospect at each position including the rookie year guys like cal nick gilbert trammel

etc so oh okay all right so that that makes it a little bit easier yeah all right so um All right. Let's go around the diamond first before we construct the lineup. So catcher Cal Raleigh, I think that's, yeah, there's really no one else that's, like, competing at that spot right now. Because you're talking closest prospects, right? The best and closest. Yeah. So I don't think Harry Ford, I mean, like, he's the best prospect at the position, but he's not, he's not close.

Yeah. So Cal, um, first big. what are you feeling at first base? Best first base prospect Hmm Mm-hmm It's France doesn't count

Evan White doesn't count Yeah There's not a guy Like this is probably where I would put Austin Shinton if you was around RIP Yeah That RIP is for my dreams

Not because Shetton die My dreams of having Shetton and the Mariners died until he gets traded back. We all know that's going to happen. Yeah, the marriage just really don't have a first baseman who's close. So, like, you could legitimately throw like Lizarro Montes on this, right? Yeah, I think you kind of have to. Because you're trying to think, like, most teams don't have like, like, you know,

first basement of the future. You don't move up the rankings playing first base. You kind of end up at first base for most guys. Yeah. So. I would say Milkar-Perez, even though there's no power right now. Yeah, I'm going to go Montas. Only because I probably need to use Milcar across the diamond.

But we'll get to that. All right. So second base. You can start to see where the Mariners' weaknesses are pretty quick. For second base, I'm going to go with Cade Marlow, really? It's probably Cade Marlowe or Caden Polkovich. I mean, like, Milcar Perez is better,

but he's pretty far away. So is Edwin Arroyo. Honestly, so is Noelvie. And noelvi's probably technically the answer is shortstop, right? Yeah. So, yeah, I'm going to go Edwin Arroyo here. I'm going to go Cade Marlowe. Like I have Arroyo higher my ranks, but Marlowe's closer and I am kind of trying to like, I'm kind of taking this question as almost like next man up.

You know what I mean? Yeah. Which I mean, I guess Donovan Walton would probably be on this list too then. Sure. I'm going to change my answer to Polkovich only because I'm going to put Arroyo at short and then I'm going to put Noelvi at third. Of course you are. Ty loves Caden Polkovich. I'm going to actually, I'm going to do like,

I'm going to just try and answer this from like a different perspective than you tie. So we just kind of cover both sides of it. I'm going to say Donovan Walton is kind of next man up at second base. Okay. And then outfield, I mean, Kellnick and Julio got to take two of the spots. Oh, yep, easy. Outfield's the easy one. Tramel, I guess.

Yes. It takes the third spot if he's included in this. So, yeah. Yeah. Well, I mean, Caliq has more at bats than Tramel. So, yeah. It's those three. And then probably Deloche four.

Deloge four. Yeah. And then, I don't know, if you want to throw a fifth guy in there, Gabby Gonzalez. Probably. Alberta, Alberto Rodriguez. Rodriguez probably a little bit ahead of him. So, yeah. So, yeah, I think, yeah, I'm just going to try and answer, like, who's next.

you know what, screw it. If I'm putting Edwin and Royo at shortstop, I'm putting Harry Ford at second base. All right. So you kind of do this like all like upside lineup. I'm going to do a lineup that or a like you do your all upside and like you know what I mean? Like I'm trying to cover this from both angles because I'm still not sure like are like are we trying to discuss like if disaster strikes

and they have to go to the minors to replace a player like who are they going to? You know what I mean? well Colby keep in mind we have like two minutes left okay well the answer is the answer is Cal Raleigh first base is probably going to be Cade Marlowe or somebody like that second base is Donovan Walton shortstop Patrick Frick maybe

yeah nothing against Patrick Frick no but like third base I you Mariners don't have a lot of like high miners infielders that's definitely the week of the system right now. Outfield is still going to be Tramel,

Calnick, Rodriguez. No question. Deloche. So yeah, it's pretty similar. I think the only difference is that like if you want like who's closer, then it's Walton and Walton's probably the answer for shortstop too. And then third base is hopefully somebody who's not on the roster yet or in the organization yet.

But if you just want like best prospect at each position, it's probably what, Raleigh, Montes, Harry Ford at second, Arroyo, short, Noelvia, third, and then the outfielders that we talked about. Right? Yeah. Yeah. That's probably about right. Sorry for trying to, I mean, like, I'm a classic overthinker, so I'm probably overthinking the meaning of your question.

Like, I get that. But I just like, I am too, though. Like, I'm like, I got to hit every single point home, you know? Right. Yeah. It's just like. So yeah. If you can clarify this even more for us because we're stupid.

We'll come back to this on Wednesday because it's a solve. I feel comfortable speaking for you too. Oh, boy. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Let's not be mean to each other. It's Valentine's Day. I love you, buddy. Oh, I love you too, buddy.

Oh, I got him to say. Oh, well, I mean, you have to check in with Caroline for that. But, yeah. I just throw in an awe, like, sound effect. And then do, like, the audience, like, when the teenage couple, like, kiss in the shows, they're like, oh, they're like, yeah. Yeah. But, yeah, seriously, though, I forget who asked Josh, I think, right?

Yeah, yeah. If you can clarify this for our, for our moronic. brains. We will talk about this again on Wednesday because it is an interesting question. And we don't know what else to talk about on Wednesday. So if you want to clarify this a little more, if we didn't satisfy your question properly, let us know. We will address it in the manner that you, uh, you. If we didn't satisfy your needs on this Valentine's Day, let us know. Oh, good Lord. All right. Bye. That's going to do it for our show. Thank you so much for tuning in to Locked on Mariners and listening to these two idiots ramble on.

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