Locked On Mariners - Daily Podcast On the Seattle Mariners - MARINERS POSTCAST: Randy and Cal POWER Seattle Mariners to win vs Kansas City Royals

Episode Date: July 1, 2025

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This is the Mariners Postcast. Your instant game reaction for the Seattle Mariners. Part of the locked on podcast network, your team every day. Welcome into the Mariners Postcast. The Seattle Mariners take game one against the Kansas City Royals in resounding fashion with a 6-2 victory. George Kirby goes six innings. Cala Raleigh hits another home run for 33 on the. season. Randy a Rosa Rain. It's almost as if someone was really, really pushing for him to have more

power. He hits two, including a three-run jack to break the game open. Easy vote from my player of the game is Randy a Roserina. But this is your Mariners postcast. My name's Anderson Hurst. That's Christopher Crawford. We go live right after every single Mariners game and break down the game. That was right after the final pitch. We're going to talk Randy. Cal, we're going to talk George Kirby, maybe talk some bullpen decisions. I know it was a win and there's a lot of positives, but we still got to kind of put things in perspective a little bit in terms of the decision making on that front. But Chris Crawford, what are your original thoughts after this win? So I knew somebody was going to notice and I'm glad that somebody did notice. I couldn't deal with

it anymore. He's 90 degrees and I've got this roller pad on my face and I just said no more. And I feel so much better and look a little bit younger, right? I actually, I actually, I'll actually look like I'm 32 again. I'm not 32. This was another game where I think process didn't beat results. I thought the Mariners made a lot of mistakes both in the managerial area, some not great hitting at times, but George Kirby was excellent. Yes, he was.

And it was so great to see Randy a Rosarina with that type of game. And, you know, not to toot my own horn, and I guess we can talk about it a little bit more. But I did happen to say on Maliwap Monday that the one thing I was looking for Randy Oroz Arena to do was to start driving the baseball more. Well, this is what he's capable of. And this is what we have seen from him for his entire career. He's never been a 30-homer guy. He certainly has the power for it, right? Like, he has that chance.

Maya Y Jr. is very funny, by the way. I do you. Yeah, I love that. Thank you so much. He certainly has the bop, you know, to be a 30 homer guy. But, you know, because he's a patient hitter sometimes, he doesn't always swing at those drivable pitches. But we certainly need a slugging percentage above 400 from Randy a Rosemary now, right?

We need that at least. It's so great to see that and to see a big dumper, man. I almost said the naughty word. It's just so special to see what he is doing and seeing that opposite feel. field power as well. I loved this game. There were some decisions that drove me nuts, though. Yeah, I'm with you on that. We can get to those in just a second, but let's, let's, you know, let's start with the lead here. Let's start with the start. George Kirby, six innings. What is the final line? I think it's five strikeouts, no walks.

Just three hits allowed, the one run. Yes. 60 of 85 pitches for strikes. And I think that 85 number is what we need to talk about because look, I thought George Kirby pitched really well. There were a couple moments where he just missed his spots, but he was still able to get away with it. Let's be completely honest here, though, too. The Kansas City Royals offense sucks out loud. And it's so disappointing that they do

because there's some really talented guys there. And they're getting an unbelievable season for Mikel Garcia. If you told me that Michael Garcia was putting up these kind of numbers, I'd be saying, wow, Kansas City must be a really, good offense. Nope. Very, very last in baseball and run scored. And I think we saw a little bit why Salvador Perez is really slowed down. But that's not taking away any credit from Kirby. I thought his slider was really good today. And my only issue here is I saw some diminished velocity at points. A lot of 92, 93. It's possible he wasn't going full gear. You know, Anders, you brought up before

we went on air that maybe he was, you know, maybe saving a little bit. And I, thought the announcers made a great point as well. I can't remember if it was Goldsmith or RRS, but or if it was hyphen that like sometimes the Mariners just have these games where it's like, you are not throwing more than 85 pitches. You are not going to go more than six innings today. So it's possible they did that. But it's concerning to me because he certainly was good enough to go another inning, maybe even two. He was so efficient in those later innings. But overall, a very solid start from George Kirby, I would say probably his second best start of 2025. Yeah, and, you know, the first one's probably the best start of his career in Los Angeles.

Right. Yeah. Great. If that's their second best start of 2025. But this looked more like the George Kirby that we know and love probably on 2 and 23. And then parts of last year as well where, like, he's just dominating the strike zone. These are the types of lineups, I think, match up really well against him where they don't have a ton of pop. and you can kind of get away with some mistakes here and there or not even mistakes,

just like get away with throwing and just a blank ton of strikes, which is what he likes to do. So I do love that, you know, he was able to get this outing in him. But, you know, you mentioned the velocity dip. Sometimes that is injury related. Sometimes it is just you don't have it to that one day. Sure. And sometimes it is, like we said, like by that time, they had the lead.

he kind of realized as you just said, as everyone probably knows in baseball, this lineup sucks. Yeah. You don't have to have your 95, 96, 97 fastball to get past these guys. You just have to kind of just rear in and put it in there, and there's not a very high chance that they're going to put it anywhere. So there's all those factors that can look into it. I'm trying to refresh Twitter to see if there's any news. I would doubt that they would say anything, even if there is something going on. but I'll keep an eye on it for you guys.

I still am more encouraged than I am discouraged from Jordan today. I would agree with that as well. Just the fact that it looked like he maybe had his second best command of this year so far. Like even the start against Minnesota, six innings of one run baseball, there were moments where he was just missing with his stuff. And he wasn't getting a lot of swing and miss. He was today. Right.

He ends up generating, I believe, 13 swings and misses today, which is a very solid number, especially over any 85 pitches. the rest of the pitching. So let's talk about, let's go right into it. Let's go right into it. Before we get the offense, we'll talk about the offense a little bit later. But George Kirby goes six pretty just without breaking a sweat. Very efficient.

Yeah, 85 pitches. You had just come off three straight extra inning games where you taxed the living crap out of your bullpen. Yeah. Literally everyone was used about as much as they possibly could. Sure. there's almost no reason, unless there is an injury, to not put him out there for the seventh, but you put out, what was it, Spire in the seventh,

and then you go Thornton in the eighth, and then you get Brash in the ninth. Talk about the decision-making. I was pretty surprised. They went to Thornton after he got two innings yesterday. Yeah. There's just, why not give Juan Burgos his MLB debut? This is like the perfect time.

they're purposely limiting their bullpen. I just, I don't know. There are some weird decisions in this game that we have to talk about. But what did you think about the bullpen usage? I didn't get it. It just didn't make a whole heck of a lot of sense to me, especially, here's the other thing. Not only is your bullpen taxed from the three extra inning games that they played.

By the way, Rangers played another one today. They've played 11 innings. They played five of their last six games. and extra innings. I've never seen that before. It's absolutely bonkers. Not only is it taxed from that, you've got a four game series coming up. And then three in a row after that, you do not have an off day until next Monday. I don't understand unless there was something with Kirby where it was injury related or they were concerned about the velocity. And I'm praying it's not. I'm just praying it's Dan Wilson making a questionable decision. I'll put it nicer than you,

Geez. No, no, that's fair. There's not anything like that. It's just dumb. It doesn't. It doesn't make a whole heck of a lot of sense there because now your bullpen's pretty tax for tomorrow. You're probably not going to have Gabe Spire available tomorrow because got a lot of swing and miss yesterday. You know, and excuse me, today, by the way, one pitch away from an immaculate inning. Congratulations to Gabe Spire. That was really impressive. That was probably... I thought he was going to get it. I thought he was going to get it.

I did too. And that was a really impressive inning from him, probably the best. I've seen him look in quite some time, especially against right-handers. It's nice to see some success there. But then go to Trent Thornton in a game where he threw two winnings and 22 pitches yesterday. I don't get it. I really don't understand it. And it unfortunately leads to using Matt Brash for a third day in a row. And I love Matt Brash like more than.

He didn't pitch yesterday. He did not pitch yesterday? Matt Brash did not pitch yesterday. Okay. So that changes my opinion a little bit because that, okay, that's great. For some reason, I thought this was going to be his third straight game. That makes more sense, right? Because, you know, he did work them back to back and this is three out of four than he's

This is three out of four. Yes, that's where I thought you were going with it. Right. Still, I want to be really careful with Matt Brash because I believe in his long-term ability so much. And I brought this up on Molly White Monday as well. I want Matt Brash healthy to maybe help your rotation. next year because with that third pitch now, with that change up, I want him as fresh as possible. Ultimately, my biggest why is why is George Kirby only throwing 85 pitches?

We've seen him stretched out beyond that already. We saw him throw 96 in that start against the Angels. So that's my biggest question mark here. Having said that, everybody but Thornton looked good. everybody who went on the mound did a very solid job if he's not a starter and he's probably not if I'm being completely honest with you but if he's not a starter Matt Brash is probably going to be the best reliever in baseball by this point next year like his stuff is just that good that's the ability to miss that bat and now having that third pitch to offer against left

handers as well yeah it was a really impressive outing but I don't want to see him overworked I do not want to see Matt Brash overwork because he is so important for both the success at the end of this year and also the coming seasons as well. Yeah, I agree with that. That's a little hot take. You guys can clip that and make sure when that does happen next year. There you go. Chris Crawford said it first. The biggest question for me is why Trent Thornton?

It's fine if Kirby's has some stuff going on. Like, all right, be careful. But why, like, if anyone doesn't know this, Juan Burgos was called up from AAA Tacoma, like I was. about a week ago, they still haven't used it. They still have not used him. And if you're not going to use him in the eighth inning of a, what, five-run game at that point, you're up six to one against a terrible lineup at home in Seattle. When are you going to use? Like, why is he on this roster then if you don't even trust him in that situation? If you don't trust Juan Burgos to face John Rave, what's going to be? I had to check that makes sure that was a real name. Yeah,

Honestly. Super good athlete. Fun name too because like you can do play the glow sticks. That's what we need with glow sticks by the way. I'm young now so I can make rave jokes. If you're not trusting then then why is he on the roster? Yeah. That's that's a great point.

It's time to let him work or, uh, you know what or get off the pot. Right. And it just like, especially when you are using a guy that you used for two winnings yesterday in an extra ending game. I don't know. There's just a lot of weird things that happen in this game. It doesn't end up hurting them. They end up getting this win.

Matt Brash, by the way, looked insanely good in that nice inning. Just literally just pounded three straight hitters and just no chance, no chance for those guys. Let's talk about the offense right after we talk about some fandals. Does that sound good to you, Chris Crawford? It sounds swimmingly. I don't think that's how you use that word. All right. We have a new little setup here, so I had to make sure we got the overlay.

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I think them getting on base as much as they are is still helping the team offensively every now and then. But we just need more thump from someone in the lineup besides Cal Raleigh. I know Dom Kanzone's been providing a little bit of that recently. Mitch Garver here and there, Solano here and there. but someone who I can believe can sustain it. And I think that one guy, especially if he continues to swing the bat like he did today, is Randy a Rosarena? So how big is that development if he starts to kind of get things going here?

Oh, it's huge, especially hitting behind Big Dumper because if he gives pitchers a reason to throw Big Dumber strikes, it's going to be a massive benefit for this offense. Because you're just seeing teams be so careful with Big Dump. Heck, you saw it with the bases loaded today. that like, yeah, they did not want to throw him a pitch. We were like, you know what? We might just intentionally walk you. No, and it was, they were careful with him, and he just missed a pitch that was, you know,

in the middle. And I think if you asked big dumper after the game, you say I should have hit that ball a little further. Here's another thing I really liked about the offense today. So Michael Walker has one of the best changeups in baseball. And that's not hyperbole. It is spectacular. The Mariners laid off a bunch of changeups today, a bunch of them in the zone.

and it ended up paying a big difference because if you get to his fastball, you've got a chance to have a really good time. And that's what they were able to do today. And as for Big Dumper, I mean, what else was going to say? It's so fun to run out of words to say about a guy in Game 84. You know, it's so fun to just be like, I don't know what else you say other than he is just a spectacular baseball player

who gets to play for the Seattle Mariners for another six. seasons after this and I am just elated to get to watch that dude play. It is just so fun. Oh, by the way, big dumper behind the plate tonight for George Kirby does a solid job. That I was going to bring that up because then I, you know, I mentioned every single time that George Kirby starts. I'm going to be like, all right. Yeah. So he like that takes one back into the big dumper column. I think it's maybe we can put aside the whole he needs to be pitching the carver sort of. Yeah, yeah, there, there you go for a little bit anyway. Like, if things go wrong, then maybe you think about the switchback, but it is nice to see those two have success. I'm just watching that Randy Rose Arena Homer, by the way, the second one.

Both of them were just crushed into opposite field, too, technically. I mean, they were pretty close to center. One was like that center, yeah. The fact that he was able to let that ball travel in and then drive that ball into that right center gap is massive. And it shows that he's feeling confident in driving the baseball there. Now we just need Julio to do the same thing. If you can get all three of those guys playing at their best at the same time, this offense has a chance to be a really good offense. You get two of three and you get this version of Julio where the loud contact gets caught

and then the blitz and blunts are going to drop in, fine, because you can score a bunch of runs and you can steal a bunch of bases. That's okay too, but I want to see all three of those dudes at the same time, plus whatever player they pick up at the deadline to hit in the middle of them. I'm demanding that happens. I don't know what's going to happen if it doesn't happen, but I'm demanding it anyway. They've got a chance to be a really good offense,

a really, really good offense. Yeah, I think it's huge. With Randy Rosaraynev, he becomes that guy that he felt like you were training for. And I don't think he hasn't been necessarily. It's just he's not like an 800, like second best hitter in the lineup sort of a guy. He's a, all right, you have two guys maybe that are, that are guys ahead of him. And then he's like one of those, one of those dudes that can get hot and then can kind of sometimes go through some stretches where it doesn't work out. And we've seen both ends of that recently with him.

Yeah. But I think there's still that untapped like power for him. And if this continues, especially as the warmer months, as they say, continue to roll on. That'll be a huge thing for this offense. One quick question back to Cal Raleigh. We haven't talked about it yet on this postcast because it's not about the game, but he is going to the home run derby. Are you, everyone is like, are you concerned about him going to the home run derby? It's going to ruin his swing.

What do you think about all that? Especially how well he's doing things now. I just don't want to screw with anything, to be honest, more than anything else. It's not just about him doing the home run derby, and I think that specifically does it, but any sort of routine that kind of would change everything up, I feel like I just don't want to mess with anything.

but what are your thoughts? Yeah, I have no issue with it. I mean, there is a lot of evidence of guys being just fine doing it. And there's some evidence of guys who have done the home run derby and then struggled in the second half of the year. I think that's just natural regression for some guys. That's just the way the sport works. Big Dumber is so strong and deserves this, right?

Like, if he wants to do it, I am totally fine with him. And Big Dumber is a lot of things. He's no dumb dumb. Big Dumber is going to treat this like the event that it should be treated as. And it's so cool that he's going to have his dad pitch to him and he's going to have his brother catch. Like, how cool is that, man? And like the other thing here, and I brought this up with Jess, Justin McIntyre, our good friend, switch hitter, right? He's not going to wear out.

He's probably going to do the Adley Rutchman and hit from both sides of the plate now because he is certainly strong enough to put on, put up monster numbers there. I think it's great, good for you, Big Dumpur. And I think people might be just looking into recency bias a little too much with the home run derby, because there's plenty of proof that you can have a really good season and do that event as well. And you know who is proof of that? The last Mariner to do it, Julio Rodriguez. Yeah, he, oh, and then Julio Rodriguez. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Both the ones that he went in, he went on an absolute terror right after he was in it. So that's personally, selfishly, for the Mariners' like chances to be good, I wanted him to be in it because it's like maybe he finds his power swing by going to the homerun derby more than anything else. And you know what? I'll tell you this. It's not out of the question that they still could invite him because it's not based on how many homers you head.

It's not based on anything like that. It's based on star power. And if a bunch of dudes, Otani's basically already said no. I think Aaron Judge has declined every year. It could be. It could be there. How fun would a Julio versus big dumper home run derby? I'm demanding that happen. Do I think Julio Rodriguez deserves to be in the home run derby? No, no. He's on pace for like 22 homers. It doesn't belong in there whatsoever.

Doesn't mean they won't bite him. It's an event. It is an event. And Julio Rodriguez is must watch win those home run derbies. Like it is so fun to watch. And if it gets him going and lifting the baseball again, sure. I'm all for it. Right, unsung hero, who we got? Or you can go unsung villain if you want. Yeah, the unsung villain is this weather and it's stupid and I hate it and it's stupid. You know, it's like 75? You know, no, it was like 92 today at one point and that's stupid. Anders, look at our complexion.

I know, I know. I'm usually one to complain about the evening. Yes. Well, what can you do? My unsung hero, just because we didn't talk about him today, it's Cole Young. Yeah. Yeah. Really nice day today.

Three for four. What I really liked seeing a hit against a lefty and also a hit that had 110 mile per hour exit velocity. The homers are going to start coming. He's getting more comfortable driving the baseball. He's getting more comfortable in letting pitches travel because he's plenty strong enough, guys. He's plenty strong enough to start hitting. He's just missed on a couple as well. I will guess that that first ding-dong happens this week.

I will guess that he's going to be able to get that first ding-dong and also hit a homer as well. But I will guess that he does. And it's just so great to see if I had one complaint about Cole Young today, you also saw why he's not a shortstop. That arm is noodle adjacent. It is not great. That really should have been a double play. But I mean, I know Bobby Witt Jr.

is so freaking fast that, like, he's going to beat out most of them. It's not a great arm. It's not a great arm, and I think he's a second baseman, but a really good second baseman. Yeah, I'm liking the way he's kind of coming around. This just looks the part of a dude who comes up, struggles for a couple weeks when he first is adjusting, but he's slowly but surely getting better and better and better. And it's happened at every level. It's happened at literally every level he's played at.

Guys, go look at his numbers in Tacoma to begin the year. We were all wondering, oh, you can't call this guy up with how bad he's been playing. And then look at the numbers by the time he got promoted, like well above average, even considering how poor of a start he's got, too. There's lots of players like this. At some point, we may need to have a conversation about Lizarra Montes and whether or not that you help you because I love him

and I want him to be my best friend. And he's really, really good. There's lots of really good prospects. And Cole Young played really well tonight. Who's your on Sun Hero? Gabe Spire. Almost did the immaculate inning looked out. Absolutely dominant once again.

I've been really impressed with how he's just, it's not just lefties too. He's, he's doing well against righties. He's become one of my most confident, or relievers I'm most confident in at this point. It's like, it's, it's Munoz and Brash. I think Spire is the next guy. Like, honestly, like, if you're going to put a guy in any situation where you need outs, I'm trusting Gabe Spire almost over anyone else right now. So good ups to him.

we got one or two more in the series. Three more. Three more. One of those weird four game series. It feels like they didn't play any four game series forever. And now they have two in the last couple of weeks in this economy. It's just weird. Yeah, it is weird.

And no days off. So this is another reason why the whole bullpen conversation happens. And it's another layer to everything. But you know, you live and you learn. Dan Wilson, maybe he's starting to learn his life on a little bit. but we'll see what ends up happening. All right, really appreciate you guys hanging out with us. What a good win to talk about.

These last two days have been why I love doing postcasts with you guys and Chris Crawford because we get to talk about a lot of positive things. I love chatting about the Seattle Mariners. Your non-beard looks fan. I'm just seeing if I missed any spots. It feels like I'm not missed a couple. You should shave on the air sometime. Oh, yeah, that'd be great television.

I'll talk about it while you're like, yeah, you know. It's like a father's son. while he's shaving, it brings down. Like, you know, Matt Brasch just has that closer mentality. Yeah. It sounds good to me. All right, guys. We'll see you tomorrow, 640.

First pitch. Who we got? Emerson, Hancock, tomorrow? I believe it is. I do this every time. I don't know who our pitcher is tomorrow. I break down the game that we just watched, all right? I don't do the one tomorrow.

We don't do the future. That's Ty and Colby, man. That's their job to be. All right. We'll talk to you guys tomorrow. Excellent, excellent stream today. If you missed any of it, first of all, please like the video that really really helps us.

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Any last words? Chris Crawford. No. All right. Two early.