Locked On Mariners - Daily Podcast On the Seattle Mariners - Mariners Fill 40-Man Roster, Claim Canaan Smith-Njigba and Collin Snider

Episode Date: February 7, 2024

The Mariners have been busy the last 24 hours or so, putting in a pair of waiver claims on right-handed reliever Collin Snider and outfielder Canaan Smith-Njigba, the brother of Seahawks receiver Jaxo...n Smith-Njigba. Ty and Colby break down both incoming players and discuss where the Mariners' 40-man roster as a whole stands right now.Ask us questions!Follow the show on Twitter: @LO_Mariners | @TyDaneGonzalez | @CPat11Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors!IbottaRight now, Ibotta is offering our listeners $5 for just trying Ibotta by using the code LOCKEDONMLB when you register.eBay MotorsWith all the parts you need at the prices you want, it’s easy to turn your car into the MVP and bring home that win. Keep your ride-or-die alive at EbayMotors.com. Eligible items only. Exclusions apply. eBay Guaranteed Fit only available to US customers.GametimeDownload the Gametime app, create an account, and use code LOCKEDON for $20 off your first purchase.FanDuelNew customers, join today and you’ll get TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS in BONUS BETS if your first bet of FIVE DOLLARS or more wins. Visit FanDuel.com/LOCKEDON to get started. FANDUEL DISCLAIMER: 21+ in select states. First online real money wager only. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable free bets that expires in 14 days. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit FanDuel.com/RG (CO, IA, MD, MI, NJ, PA, IL, VA, WV), 1-800-NEXT-STEP or text NEXTSTEP to 53342 (AZ), 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-9-WITH-IT (IN), 1-800-522-4700 (WY, KS) or visit ksgamblinghelp.com (KS), 1-877-770-STOP (LA), 1-877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY), TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN) 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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Starting point is 00:00:00 The Mariners have picked up yet another interesting reliever as well as an outfielder whose younger brother just so happens to play for the football team across the street. We'll tell you about both of them coming up here on the Lockdown Marrars podcast. Colby, hit it. You are Locked on Mariners. Your daily Seattle Mariners podcast. Part of the Locked on podcast network, your team every day. Oh, hoi, sailors.
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Starting point is 00:00:57 We'd love to hear from you. And if you want to hear from us even more, please consider signing up for our Patreon. now get a free seven-day trial to check out the show. The link as well as our social accounts is in the description of this episode. So the Mariners have made a pair of waiver claims over the last couple days. We're going to tell you about both of them on this show. And we're going to start with Colin Snyder, the right-handed reliever.
Starting point is 00:01:18 The Mariners claimed awful waivers from the Arizona Diamondbacks. And Snyder is someone that's been on your radar, Colby. So tell us about him. Colin is, he's an interesting arm that was now been DFA twice. So second shot for the Mariners to claim. blame him. It's a profile that's very Justin Topa like. It is a sinker and a slider. The sinker's 93 to 97 with some pretty good run. It does not generate any swing and miss. That's kind of one of the issues. The slider is, it's a good slider, 36% whiff rate. He throws from a, it's called high
Starting point is 00:01:57 sidearm, arm angle, so there's some deception. He's also been working on a cutter for the last few years. He introduced it last year to some mixed results, and he's been working to kind of solidify that pitch. The cutter is about 90, 91 miles an hour sliders in the 80s. So there is a clear difference there between the two pitches. Again, it's the three, it's a three quarter, well, low three quarter high sidearm, kind of arm angle there.
Starting point is 00:02:27 He gets a lot of ground balls. He avoids hard contact. And there's promising numbers from the slider in terms of that potentially being a swing and miss pitch. So he's definitely more of a middle reliever guy. But this could be something that the Mariners make one little tweak on the slider or maybe they find a way to get a little more value out of the sinker. And he is the guy who, you know, pops like Justin Topa because Topa was pretty similar last year, you know, mid-90s slider or mid-90s sinker. and a really like, you know, sweeper, a sweeper style slider and a change up was his third pitch in Seattle, you know, whether they did something specifically or they just trusted Topa to figure it out. I don't really know, but they got really good value out of Toplin.
Starting point is 00:03:15 And Snyder is a guy who could do that. You know, it's just another arm you throw in the pile. There's no guarantee that he makes it, you know, at any stretch, but he does have an option left. You can send him down to AAA without having him go through waivers. You can go up and down five times this year. So it's good coverage. We'll see if he even survives the spring on the 40 man. But there's some, there's some, you know, upside here of a, you know, above average middle relief type.
Starting point is 00:03:48 And there's, you know, pretty good, he's a pretty safe bet that he can get some big, some, you know, big league hitters out. a couple times this year when you just need the extra arm. Like there's very little downside to this play, and there's pretty moderate upside. So it's a good move. It's one of those moves that you make when you want to make sure you're covered in the middle. And he just kind of gets thrown on the pile with the other, I don't know, eight to 10 arms that are all pretty interesting in their own way. So Snyder, again, because he has the option left,
Starting point is 00:04:23 that might actually hurt him in terms of making the opening day roster. but it does help him in keeping his 40-man spot. So it's an interesting ad. I think we'll see him quite a bit this spring and we'll see what the Mariners can do, but there's some interesting pitch data here that suggests that there might be more in, you know, under the hood with Colin Snyder.
Starting point is 00:04:46 Snyder has 54 and two-thirds innings of Major League work under his belt and his career. 62 total appearances, 543, Ks per 9, 461, walks per 9, 5, 9, 5, 9, 3. ERA 503 FIP, 488X FIP for a total of negative 0.4 Fangraph's War. So you mentioned how many arms the Marrists have stockpiled towards the back end of that bullpen competition.
Starting point is 00:05:12 If you had to rank these guys in terms of likelihood to make the roster out of camp, where would you slot Snyder? Well, let's see. Assuming they carry eight, which has been their, you know, their M.O. and assuming that Santos, Munoz, Brash, Spire, and Saucedo are basically locks,
Starting point is 00:05:36 and assuming they're all healthy, that would leave three spots left. Both is almost, is probably going to keep his spot. Thornton's probably going to keep his, so that leaves one spot open. I think Snyder is, I would say that Snyder is somewhere in the middle, because again, he does have the option left,
Starting point is 00:05:59 which kind of hurts him because the Mariners can stash him without losing him, where there are other guys who don't have an option left. So you kind of have to make the team or you have to cut them unless they're here on minor league deals, which a lot of them are. So I would say that, you know, assuming they keep both and Thornton, which I think is a pretty safe bet right now, I would say that Snyder is probably going to be ahead of guys like Vizarro, probably ahead of guys like even Jackson Coar,
Starting point is 00:06:25 because I think they might want to put CoR down in the minors and keep him stretched out as they start her. So I think it's a slim chance, but I think it's probably right in there with the, the Crable or the butchery type of arms. But he's not at the top of the list, I wouldn't think. I think, I think, you know, depending on what the Mariners want,
Starting point is 00:06:46 if they want just some middle help, then he has a shot. If they want a chance at like a high leverage arm, then Vargas is probably your best bet there. So I think Snyder's pretty solidly in the middle of the mix, but it kind of depends on what the rest of the bullpen looks like. The addition of Snyder filled the Mariners 40-man roster, but that didn't stop them from making another move today,
Starting point is 00:07:08 which required a corresponding move. We'll be talking about that in just a moment, but first a reminder of this episode of the Lockdown Mariners podcast is brought to you by Fandul. Happy Super Bowl to all who celebrate from Fandul, America's number one sportsbook. If you like me, Super Bowl Sunday is all about scoring the best seat on the couch,
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Starting point is 00:09:15 He's 24 years old, only has 44 plate appearances to his name at the major league level, and they have not gone particularly well. 135-250-243 is his triple-slash line, just a 38 WRC plus over that time. But he's hit at pretty much every level of the minor leagues that he has been at. And more importantly, he has a minor league option still. So, Colby, what do you think?
Starting point is 00:09:40 Yeah, he's an interesting addition to the 40 man. You're taking a chance on a guy who has an option left, a guy who you can ship to AAA and have in your back pocket for when you need it. And when you look at some of what the Mariners, have lost in that department like they lost Jared Kelnick they lost Deloche those are two options and Taylor Tremel is you know on his last leg in Seattle and there's a good chance unfortunately that he gets DFA'd at the end of the spring but you still want that kind of profile in the miners because that's a guy who can come up get hot for a couple weeks and kind of you know Mike forward
Starting point is 00:10:17 his way to you know regular playing time so the fact that he has an option left is is huge I don't think they make this movie he doesn't have an option left. I think the option is incredibly important for, you know, Canaan Smith, and Jigba. So, um, it's an interesting profile. There are some, there are some swing and miss in his game, uh, even in the miners, uh, but the raw power is legitimate.
Starting point is 00:10:41 It's legitimate, you know, 65 raw power. The ball jumps off of his bat. He hits home runs. He's got opposite field power for a lefty, uh, which is, is pretty rare. Um, he is pretty good. He's Pretty good idea of the strike zone. He does draw walks, which is a nice little touch. And he has hit for average at the minor league level.
Starting point is 00:11:01 It's just he strikes out a lot, even relative to the minors. And so that's going to go up. He's probably at least a 30% strikeout guy. I think if you're looking for like absolute ceiling here, probably Eric Thames, you remember him, big strong dude, hit some home runs. He had a couple good years from Milwaukee. I think that's probably what you're looking at here. I think he is kind of a Taylor Tremel hedge a little bit. He is essentially, you know, roughly, I mean, they do it differently,
Starting point is 00:11:35 but roughly the same value as somebody is Zach Deloche. So you're upset about. I kind of look at him as the Zach Deloge replacement in the org. I think they see him more as the Taylor Tremel replacement, but we're splitting hairs. Yeah. So, yeah, he's just, he's a lottery ticket who has a lot of fun things, you know, happening in his profile. And this is one of those guys where. maybe this is somebody that Brandt Brown looks at and says,
Starting point is 00:11:58 hey, I've got this. Like there's a tweak I can make right here. And we can unlock something, kind of similar to Jesus Sanchez, who is, you know, as a lefty with,
Starting point is 00:12:09 you know, great raw power who can hit home runs all over the field. You know, it has good exit velos. You know, had some strikeout issues, but can also draw some walks. Like,
Starting point is 00:12:18 this is an interesting profile. This isn't a, you know, a charity. This isn't a PR thing. Like this is, there's a legit. get profile here. Is it likely that he's going to make a big impact on the in the majors this year? No, it's much more likely he gets DFAed than he takes that bat for the Mariners.
Starting point is 00:12:35 But that's not what's important here. What's important here is you're building out the back end of your 40 man with guys who are majorly ready, like guys who have produced at the miners and if you need to go to in, you know, difficult spots, you feel reasonably comfortable that he is going to survive. He is going to do something to help you. He's not a great. defender by any stretch. He's not a, he's not a center fielder. He's a corner guy. He's fringe there, give or take is what I've read. But again, you're buying the bat. You're buying the power profile. You're buying the walks and you're buying possibly, again, possibly. These are the things that we're not privy to. You're buying the possibility that Brant Brown looks
Starting point is 00:13:15 at it and says, I've got the tweak here. Or maybe it's not, maybe it's, maybe it's somebody else, right? It doesn't have to be Brant Brown. Maybe the, maybe the analytics people see something. And And this is a guy who, in theory, could be a tweak away from, you know, being a 110 fourth outfield type of bat, like 110 WRC plus fourth outfield type of bat. He's a he's a he's a heftier guy. He's thick. He's six foot like 2.30. But he moves pretty well. It's fringe average speed.
Starting point is 00:13:47 Does it seem kind of Dom Smithy? Yeah. Yeah. I think he's a better athlete. Okay. And then Smith, though. But, yeah, he's, again, he's not, I think people will think of, like, Jackson Smith and Jigba, and they'll be like, okay, well, he's really fast. He's really quick.
Starting point is 00:14:05 So I'm sure his brother is similar. No, not really. He's a bigger guy. He's, like I said, he's six foot. He's listed at six foot, like, 2.30. Carries it pretty well. But there's no, there's no, like, illusion that he's like this sleek, fast defender. Like, he's a slugger.
Starting point is 00:14:24 and that's what you're acquiring here. But it's not like he's awful in the output. He can get the job done. So I think, you know, is there a shot that he's like Luke Rayleigh? There might be. Like, I mean, you know, Rayleigh, older prospect, right? Doesn't like he's a bigger guy. He looks bigger.
Starting point is 00:14:44 But he still moves pretty well. And, you know, you get the right chance. You make the right tweak. And bam, you have a guy who can legitimately help you. So this is a really interesting one. Again, not likely to make a huge. impact, but you start looking at what the mergers are doing and just look at the projected Tacoma roster.
Starting point is 00:14:59 There are big leaguers. This is going to be one of the best Rainier's rosters in a while. Yeah. Like there's legitimate options to go to down in AAA. Yeah. And most of them have, at least they either have some kind of prospect pedigree or they have had some success at the big league level at some time. So you start looking at what the mergers have done to the back end of this route, the back end
Starting point is 00:15:23 of the 40. in particular. I think we pretty much know 24, 25 of the guys who are going to make the opening day roster. So it's pretty easy to look at the back end. Then you look at the minor league free agents. You look at, you know, all these small waiver claims and these small trades they've made and you start trying to project who's going to end up in AAA. The Mariners are going to have options in Tacoma if they need to. And that is something that has not really been true for the last few years and Smith and Jigba is just a part of that. And he's an, he is an interesting bat. He really is. I think, I think there's a chance. And again, it's a small chance, but that's what
Starting point is 00:15:58 you take the chance on, the small chances. Right. I think there, I think he's got a shot to be a, you know, an everyday quality hitter. And by the way, he also hit left. He's totally fine last year. So there's not a lot of evidence that he's a pure platoon bat either. So you take a shot. Maybe it works. probably doesn't, but if it does, it costs you 700 grand to try. That's nothing. You might have seen that he got an assessment over a drivelin earlier on in the off season. I was told earlier this morning that he has stayed in the Washington area and has been working
Starting point is 00:16:32 out. So he's pretty familiar with the location and everything. And whether he's in Seattle or in Tacoma, it's pretty cool that he's going to be able to play in the same status as brother. And I'm sure they're going to be able to, assuming that. he stays on the roster. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Assuming that he stays on the roster, but good chance.
Starting point is 00:16:50 But yeah. That option is key. But yeah, that's, but that's going to be pretty cool for them. And I'm sure their family is thrilled. And they're probably pretty thrilled to be close by with one another. The Mariners also acquired baseball super fan C.J. Stroud today. That's right. That's right. C.J. Stroud, his favorite baseball player, Kane and Spent and Jekba, as well as the,
Starting point is 00:17:11 what did he say, the Japanese guy who plays on the Angels. Yeah. Couldn't think of Shohei Otani, but he knew Canaan Smith and Jigba. Right. Mariners acquire somebody better than Shoah Otani says this NFL quarterback. That's going to be the title of this episode. And you're listening to the Locktime Maris podcast. Thank you again for making us your first listen.
Starting point is 00:17:36 So you look at this Mariners 40-man roster now. They had to make room for Canaan Smith and Jigbo by DFA and Darren McCacken. So a tough day for the Darren McCacken and Joyer. My condolences. I know Colby doesn't care, but my condolences, someone, one of us has to be considerate of our listeners' feelings here. I'm very, don't worry, Darren McCacken and Joyer. He's a cockroach. He'll be back with the Mariners in like five days.
Starting point is 00:18:03 He'll probably start opening day for the rain ears. Like, this guy's got nine lives in the Mariners organization. Darren McCacken cannot be killed. Nobody is going to claim him for obvious reasons. He's going to be fine. he'll be back with the coma very shortly see i'm sentimental sure i care about your feelings more than tie cares about mine apparently
Starting point is 00:18:23 so the mayor is 40 man roster is uh it's starting to get pretty stacked in there right there there aren't as many stack is a relative term but sure sure there aren't as many clear like yeah you can dFA that guy you can dFA that guy you can dFA that guy you can dFA that guy like there aren't that many guys that kind of fit that anymore. There's still a few, but we're getting closer to the point where you're going to, if you're going to add someone to the 40 main roster,
Starting point is 00:18:54 you're going to have to make a tough decision. Right. I mean, even this morning when we learned from G Scott that, uh, shout out to G by the way. Yeah, breaking some mariner news. Good for Ging married. I mean, you guys don't know the story. Obviously, uh, Jackson Smith and Jigba, uh, went to,
Starting point is 00:19:12 Ohio State is G Scott Jr., G Jr. He goes to Ohio State also, he's a tight end, but I believe he roomed with, was it J.S.N? Daddy, yeah, he was roommates. They were actually roommates. So you're wondering how G. Scott knew. Right. Because he knows Jackson
Starting point is 00:19:28 personally and obviously. So anyways, I went to go look at the, like, who's the, like, I went to the 40 man say, okay, well, who's left to DFA? And for the first time, I was like, like, yeah. You know, like, you could DFA Ty Adcock.
Starting point is 00:19:43 Like I don't think that's, you know, going to hurt anybody. You could DFA McCacken, which is what they did. You want a DFA Bizarro? He showed some stuff. Like, do you want a DFM for a lottery ticket? Not you want a DFA for Blake Snow? Right. You know, Cody Bolton.
Starting point is 00:19:59 I mean, you could. Like, I don't think anybody's going to be upset about that. But there are some, you know, Bolton spends a pretty good breaking ball. Like, I don't know if you want to take that guy out of the organization. And you start going down the list. It's like Lavera, O.R. probably don't want to do that. And I mean, Snyder, maybe.
Starting point is 00:20:18 Like, maybe he might be in trouble. But you start going down the list and you go, like, certainly the position players, the only position player I saw that I was like, oh, yeah, that guy, you could DFA that guy, is Taylor Tremel. And it's like, why DFA him a couple weeks before, you know, spring, why not at least, let him showcase? Yeah, just let it rock. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:20:41 Yeah. So there, there are only like two or three guys on the 40 man where you look at it. you go like, oh yeah, you could DFA that guy. That's fine. Like, nobody's going to miss that guy. So they're not quite there yet. They're not at, they're not because like, look, at the end of the day, if you have to DFA Jackson Coar, fine. You do it. Like, it's not a huge deal. You're not like scrambling to trade a guy, right, so that you can respect Jackson Co. I, I, excuse me, only one of us has his baseball card, but. Fair point. Fair point. Yeah. But anyways. So, yeah, I think, you know, the mayor's 40 man.
Starting point is 00:21:14 is filling out nicely and that makes a lot of sense because how many 40 man moves they made this winter so far so far 16 17 17 well it's 16 unless you want to count Caleb or because he was on the 40 man for a couple weeks and then he was the DFA so yeah 17 well we'll do it this way 16 new members of the 40 man
Starting point is 00:21:38 currently you just wanted to throw on the Caleb Ward thing because you didn't want to admit that I was right Oh, my guess. No. I mean, it's, it's, it's no. No, totally. You're just wrong.
Starting point is 00:21:51 You had your like internal monologue, like an anime. You were like, oh my God, he got it right. No. You got it wrong. Objectively, you got it wrong. No. They've made 17 moves to the 40, man. Caleb Ward doesn't exist.
Starting point is 00:22:06 Caleb Ward isn't a real person. Well, I got to buy his baseball card still. So yes, he is. Anyway, so yeah, that's, that's massive turnover. And obviously, a lot of, It's the garvers, it's the Hanigers, it's the Rayleys. But a lot of this stuff has been around the fringes too. And what they've added on the fringes is better than what they had last year on the fringes.
Starting point is 00:22:25 Like they are not in a position where they are going to be scurrying for, boy, I sure hope Mike Ford works. Boy, I sure hope Jose Cabriero works. It's like, no, they need a second basement. They're going to go and they're going to pluck up Sam Haggri. And we know what Sam Haggri can do. They're going to go get Samad Taylor. We're really comfortable with what Samad can do. Like, we're going to go get.
Starting point is 00:22:43 you know, Canaan Smith and Jigbo we're going to go get, you know, we're going to go pick up Jackson Coar who's pitching the big leagues. We're going to go get Cody Bolton who's pitching the big,
Starting point is 00:22:54 like the Mariners 40 man is actually in really good shape right now. Yeah, yeah. And it's getting to a point, and again, we're probably about a year or two away still, but we're getting closer and closer to a point where a 40 man roster crunch
Starting point is 00:23:07 is going to be a very real thing. Yeah. Or Seattle. And the fact that it wasn't even a year ago, like a year ago today, we had like 9, 10, 11 guys. We could throw off the 40 man without hesitation. Now?
Starting point is 00:23:23 Like four? I could see maybe two or three. Yeah. Yeah. So 40 man's in good shape. That's a, that's a credit to Justin and Jerry for, you know,
Starting point is 00:23:32 really, you know, going to work and raising the floor, which has been a big part of their offseason. So does this mean they're done? Because they've filled the 40 man which as we all know that once you fill the 40 man that means you can't make any more moves as ever by today yeah even though they literally had a full 40 man before they claimed smith and jigpa yeah um no
Starting point is 00:23:56 i i wouldn't bet they were done um i think they still need another starting pitcher like so yeah i think that that is kind of the underrated aspect of df a macaan is like you know for better or worse he was from the outside looking at was kind of one of those guys that was higher on the list in terms of you have an injury in the rotation. Definitely for the worst. But yeah, he was. Like Emerson Hancock is the first guy you think of. But then after that, is it McCacken?
Starting point is 00:24:26 After that? Because we don't know what you're going to get out of Taylor Dollar. Right. No. I mean, we don't even know if he's going to, when he's going to throw again. Like, yeah, we don't. Let me just put it. The fact that Jerry,
Starting point is 00:24:39 unprompted, mentioned Reed Van Scooter. Yeah. As like starter depth tells you, that Jerry knows that they need to add some more pitching depth. Right. Because that is not like, oh, we believe in Reed Van Scooter.
Starting point is 00:24:51 No, they don't. No disrespect to Reed Van Scooter. High A. Yes, but he is an 88 mile an hour fastball lefty with mediocre off speed stuff. Like, that is not a viable option.
Starting point is 00:25:03 And so when you look at, who's the other guy? He mentioned Tyson Miller? Yes. I think so. So not a real option. Right. Pretty much after you get by the five,
Starting point is 00:25:13 it's Hancock, who, you know, has just been a picture of health and has amazing stuff. That's sarcasm. And then he's being completely authentic right now. Sure. And genuine. Then honestly, the mayors might go to both or Thornton before they go to anybody else in the miners. And that's a problem.
Starting point is 00:25:32 Yeah. So the Mariners need, you know, a starting pitcher. It'd be great if it was a guy with options. It'd be great if it was at least a Taylor-Dolar type. did Eric Lauer get picked up? I don't think so. I think he's still available. So there are some guys, you know, out there that can still make sense.
Starting point is 00:25:50 But I don't think they're done with the 40 man. Again, I don't know if they have any like what we would classify as significant moves coming. But do I think that there's going to be some more 40 man shuffling? Yeah, because we're going to see more free agent sign over the next, you know, a couple weeks. And those moves will necessitate 40 man moves. And just kind of, you know, like maybe like Colin Snyder now, but if player X gets cut and you're like, we like that guy more than Snyder,
Starting point is 00:26:17 then you just make that move. But for the first time in a long time, like it's no, like he used to be like, oh, a semi interesting guy got DFA'd. Yeah, you should claim him.
Starting point is 00:26:26 Yeah. Now you look at it and you go, I mean, do you have somebody you want to cut for that guy? Right. Maybe, but not, not a guarantee.
Starting point is 00:26:35 Whereas last year, we had a, we had a dozen like people that were like, yeah, you can DFA that guy. That's fine. Yeah. I do kind of wonder if they are going to do some substantial before opening day.
Starting point is 00:26:48 They're kind of wait until we get into spring training and see where some of these other guys sign. And, you know, because, you know, maybe the, the Giants sign Cody Bellinger, right? And all of a sudden, Mikey Shremski is available when you didn't think he was going to be. Lamont Wade. Lamont Wade. Or, you know, they signed Matt Chapman and all of a sudden here's Wilmer Flores. Right. JD Davis
Starting point is 00:27:13 JD Davis yeah or even on a smaller end maybe like David VR right like you just that guy until you're 40 man because that's depth so yeah I think you're looking for where pitchers go in particular yeah but yeah as guys sign you know I don't think that the meritors are going to sign Snell or Montgomery or Solair but when those guys sign the reaction for mariner fan should be to go look at those rosters go look at those 40 men 40-man rosters and see if there's something there that might work for you. And I think that's what Jerry's going to do. And I think, you know, Justin and Jerry are going to be very opportunistic.
Starting point is 00:27:51 They're going to be, if the right deal happens to present itself, I think they'll pounce on it. But I don't think that they're going out there and, you know, looking for another Garber level addition. I mean, if it's there, if it's there, they'll take it. But I don't think that they're going to try and force anything with like trading salaries or anything like that. I think they're past that right now. And they don't honestly have that many salaries left to trade. They don't. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:28:18 It's pretty much France or Castillo at this point. I mean, you can. Anneger. Nobody's taking Anderger. Yep. So it's pretty much France, Castillo, and I guess Dylan Moore, but three million bucks is that's probably not going to make the difference between you getting like an impact player or not.
Starting point is 00:28:36 So we'll see. But no, I don't think, I think they're, I think they have a couple 40 man moves left in them. I just don't know if they're going to be significant. I doubt there or they're going to be more of like the Snyder Smith and Jacob types. Right. Right. All right. That's going to do it for our show. Thank you so much for joining us here on the Lockdown Marrars podcast for Colby Patnode. I'm Tadangazales. Be sure to give us a follow on Twitter at LO underscore Mariners. You follow me at Ty Dan Gonzalez and Colby at C-Pat 11. That's C-PAT-1-1. You can also find all that stuff in the description of this episode. Thank you again for making us your first listen. Have yourself a
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