Locked On Mariners - Daily Podcast On the Seattle Mariners - MARINERS POSTCAST: Seattle Mariners get SERIES WIN in Chicago vs Cubs

Episode Date: June 22, 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. Baseball's weird. Baseball's a really weird sport. Baseball's really weird. It's amazing how different a game can look in one place versus another place. Yeah.

And I think it's the only sport you can say that it's like that big of a difference. And there are some differences in others like, I don't know, I'm a soccer. guy, a rainy night in Stoke, they'd say. Yeah. That's a different game than playing in Barcelona heat, but it's not as different as this, man. This is like a whole different sport that we've been watching this whole week. About the Barrettors, get the series dub. Let's go.

Anderson Hurst cheer Christopher Crawford over to my left. Like, we'll take it. We'll take that. The offense gets a get-right series for sure. I don't want to hear it. I know the conditions were very conducive. to offensive play. But this team needs it, man. Like, take advantage of it and run and go. Have those stats. Right. Let's get going, man. I think they really needed this this weekend,

especially the offense. Yeah, absolutely. And, you know, this was the, I believe they said, the third series ever three game series that both teams combined for 10 home runs. That is a lot of false traveling over the fence. But beggars cannot be choosers, folks. And this was fun to watch. Like, if you were a neutral party watching this series, oh my gosh, how much fun were you having? Like, yeah, the interesting part is none of these games were close. Like, you know, none of them ended up being a, uh, a lot closer just because of how many runs are scored. For sure. Yeah. And that's fun, right? Like, I, I appreciate a good pitcher's duel as much as the next guy. I pitched in high school and I, I love watching these guys throw 97 with movement and stuff

like that. But it also is fun to kind of reminisce about the, for lack of a better term, the steroid noise, the days where guys were just bopping the baseball over the fence like crazy. And we've seen a lot of really good offensive numbers this year. Like it is one of the, you know, if you take a look at Alphins on average, it kind of just is what it is. But we have seen some upper echelon performances. It was fun to watch the Mariners participate in a game like this. And not just a game like this, a series like this, but getting a series win, against a legitimate World Series contender on the road. Feels pretty darn good.

Yeah, I'm with you on that one. The Mariners get the win. Let's see 14 to 6 was the final. They score the double touchdown. They get the extra point to get the double touchdown. Let's go. Logan Gilbert looked good. I think actually really good through four innings.

Fifth inning kind of got a little bit. Which, you know, if you look at the rest of pitching performances throughout this series, Like, I don't say it was unexpected. Sure. But, you know, he just ran out of gas a little bit. I know it's really, really hot there. But the offense picked him up, man. And it's great to see that every once in a while because usually he's the guy that gets Felix.

The guy that, you know, pitches seven innings of one run baseball and then they lose two to one. Right. And it's like, what in the name of God? So it's good to see it the other way around. So let's start with the start. Logan Gilbert, what did you see? I thought it was mostly good. Now, it's very, you talk about baseball being weird.

Here's where the win lost at is so stupid. Logan gets the win tonight where he was clearly less effective than his previous start where he throws five innings of two-run baseball. Should have been one run and he strikes out 10. Baseball is just kind of a jerk sometimes. The only issue I had, and if we were going to give an early unsung villain, after giving all the flowers to Mitch Garver yesterday, Yeah.

Mr. Garver had a tough one, and I don't think he called a very good baseball game today. Relyed on the slider too much. That slider was a 50 pitch today at best on the 2080 scale for those unfamiliar. The 50 means average. Why do we use the 2080 scale? It's a bell curve, and it is also a way for people to sound smarter than other people. So I enjoy it from that point of view. But it wasn't a great slider, and I thought Garber called too many.

I think every home run he gave up today was on a slider. I could be wrong there, but he was just catching too much of the plate with that. And this was an issue that I had with Garver in the, a previous start that he had with Gilbert, is that he just really, really loves calling a lot of sliders. Go to the fastball, especially once you have put some runs on the board. Go to that fastball, throw that ball by the Chicago Cup lineup, who's very good, very, very good. But prone to swing and miss, for sure as well. So that was my one issue I had, but I thought that the stuff for Logan Gilbert looked good.

I think a big thing here too is him getting to 90 pitches because I feel more comfortable that he's going to be stretched out for these next few, right? Like I think he threw 84 the previous one. And, you know, innings matter. It's more about pitch count. It's more about building that arm strength. Logan Gilbert's going to be fine. Logan Gilbert is at top of the rotation starter.

When we had Joe Sheehan by the way on KJR and he called him one of the 11th best starter, I was ready to fight because I think he's a lot better than that. In my personal opinion, he's not insulting him. any stretch of the imagination. But Logan Gilbert's really good. Command wasn't great today, but I thought the swing and miss stuff was fine. And it was more encouraging than not. But Mitchie, call a few less sliders the next time you're behind the plate. Real, real quick, we talked about this. Thank goodness Big Dumper wasn't behind the plate tonight, man. There is no reason for somebody to catch back to back in that type of heat. So get on you, Dan Wilson, for making

the right call. Yeah, I'm with you on that one. And he, speaking of Big Dumber, I mean, it's, it's the story. It looked like it was going to be early. He hits another just Wrigley Field home run. It looked like that one was crushed though. Yeah. And he gets his 31st on June 22nd. He already has broken the record for most home runs before the All Star break for a

switch hitter for a catcher. And my God, he's chasing that American League crown. Aaron Judge said a couple years ago. He really, I mean, I don't think he's going to win the batting average title. only here but no 76 is uh definitely a number that you're going to uh going to more than take like that's of a career high by then some man that ball was just what's crazy about that was i thought oh it's got a chance to get over the fence and then it's like in the upper deck like yeah there's no doubt that it's like he's like sinnebong points out it wasn't a cheapie it went 400 20 feet yeah

maybe win gave it another 50 or 60 you know that's and that's okay that's okay it's just incredible how strong this guy is and how well he's seeing the baseball, draws a couple of more walks as well. I mean, he's playing at an MVP level doesn't even begin to describe what Big Dumper is giving this team right now. Any other year he went, he's like the MVP favorite by a landslide right now. My buddy, we don't actually know each other, but Mike Petrelio did the shake hand emoji thing with Bobby Witt Jr. Cal Raleigh shaking hands. Unanimous MVP's is not for the fact that Aaron Judge exists. Yeah. It's on. fortunate that Aaron Judge is Aaron Judge, but the Seattle Mariners can't complain about anything Big Dumper is giving them a terrific game and awesome to see not just a great game from him, but pretty much the entire lineup with a massive game.

We'll talk about the bottom of the order for sure. Yeah. Let's quick question regarding the pitching. We started with the start with Logan Gilbert. The three games this series, I know the conditions were not friendly to pitchers. Is there any concern on your part with the starting pitching? Any concern with the starting pitching from what we saw this weekend? Or, hmm, not really.

No, I think that the heat and there were just enough good moments from all of those guys, Sands Hancock. Like, let's not forget, we didn't bring it up yesterday. I don't think we did anyway. Emerson Hancock threw seven scoreless endings in his start before that. Like, let's calm down a little bit about like replacing him. I got a bunch of people. I don't think anyone's saying to replace him.

Well, I did actually get, because I'm super famous, I did get some people asking me about whether Logan Evans should be starting for the Seattle Mariners. I did not respond because I didn't have anything. No, right. No, it's, if you can't think of anything other than no, idiot, like, then you just don't say it. And I hope this person isn't watching right now. I'm not concerned about the starting pitching. I mean, I would have liked to have seen better efforts.

I would have liked to have seen the starters get deeper into the game. But I think it's okay. I think it's what I have seen overall is okay. And it's nice that the offense carried them so that the lackluster, I guess the best way to put it, starting pitching didn't matter too much. Yeah, if this was like an outlier and they were pretty dang good up until now, I would be less worried. But the fact that they just haven't been that elite group that we've expected of them and this is kind of what this team's built off of is it starting pitching, I would be a little bit, I would feel a little bit better about it. So I'm not saying that I'm just ringing the alarm bells right now. But it's something to keep an eye on at least moving forward.

I just this offense being able to carry a series like this is great. But I just don't see that being sustainable over the rest of the season. And especially if you're a playoff team getting to that point. All right, let's, excuse me, let's give our sponsors some love for a little bit. And then we'll talk about the bottom of the lineup because they are the real true heroes today. Is that good? My gosh, yeah. Ah, summer sports are in full swing,

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bottom of the order um i don't even think it's unsung hero it's sung hero at this point with terms of donovan salano two home runs don can zone two home runs and neither of those four were cheapies they were shellacked by all both of them so uh big day for those two and they're not going to hit two home runs a game obviously but if you can get any assemblance of offense from that kind of position. It's going to help, you know, the Julios, the JPs, the Randy, the kind of second tier offensive players, Polanco's. It'll help this offense so much if they don't have to be relied on at the top of the

order every single day to score five, six runs. Yeah, it was such an impressive effort from really the entire lineup. And what I love today, too, you get 14, excuse me, 18 hits. You score 14 runs. you have one, two, three, four, five, six extra base hits. You strike out three times. You strike out only three times. And look, strikeouts are just outs.

Yes. But it just shows how well they're picking up the baseball and how well they saw the baseball in this series. It was outside of, you know, a couple of oopsie-dupsies. I guess that's the nicest way to put it. The strikeouts have really been cut down. It's, you know, and there's proof that strikeouts are just outs because the offense has been inconsistent. But you take a look at what Solano can zone, and I'm just going to give it to you right now, my unsung heroes, Miles Master Pony. Hey, there you go. All three of those guys get three hits.

Master Boney also draws a walk and he scores a couple of runs. If you can, this is the most obvious point ever. If your bottom of the lineup can give you nine hits and drive in seven runs, score six, you're going to be having a pretty good time. You're going to be having a really good time. It's been awesome to see Master Boney contributing lately, too. Like, yeah, there's no power in that bat whatsoever. Same with Ben Williamson. I think they're both slugging almost the exact same total. But Master Boney's getting on base at a much better clip.

Now, he's also a much worse defensive player than Williamson. So it's kind of a tradeoff. But Miles Mastroboni has been a helper. Miles Mastrobon. And he was a big time helper today to get those guys on for other players to drive them in. I just am thrilled with what I've seen. And we could talk for hours about how awesome this is for Donovan Salano, one of the good guys in baseball, one of the good clubhouse people, one of the players that his value to the team is hard to quantify. So a lot of people just don't try to quantify it.

But now the results are spectacular. And he was due for positive regression, of course. I don't think anyone who was expected in this kind of positive regression or positive ascension, whatever. way you want to put it. It's just awesome to see. And there's a reminder of Dom Kanzon's power, man. Like, there are some real question marks about every single other tool with this dude. It ain't power. This guy has elite raw pop. And like, that second homer he hit, like, off of the scoreboard was just like, and sure, wind assisted maybe. That's dog don't need a lot of wins. Don do not need a lot of help there. He is a guy who can hit a baseball real far. it's interesting because there's going to be some lineup question marks coming up now, right?

Because you're going to want Donovan Solano in the lineup against lefties and righties right now, right? And you're going to want Luke Rayleigh in the lineup against lefties and righties too. You want poor He Palanco. I think you want Jorge Polanco and you want Don Canzon playing too, right? So like this is a good problem to have, right? This is the opposite of the normal problem for the Mariners. And usually we're saying which of these bums do we have to put out here? just to get the lineup complete, they actually have a good problem right now.

And, you know, Jerry Depoto has talked about his depth a lot and a lot of times it's been wrong. This might be the first time he's right where there's actual depth on this roster. There are actual guys that are not playing that you can argue want to play. It's been a while since we can say that. It's not a perfect lineup by any stretch of the imagination. And you're still looking for upgrades in right field. You're still looking for upgrades at first base, second base, third base, everywhere. really, but shortstop, center field, and catcher, you're looking for something to get better, right?

I guess left field, too. You know, we'll talk about Randy or Rose Arena, having kind of another underrated game. You stole my thunder. What the heck? Well, you know what? I like to steal thunder because the thunder are going to get stolen today, a championship. They're going to lose 182 to 14, and it's going to be embarrassing. Congratulations to the Indiana Pacers.

This is a good problem to have. It is a good problem to have that there are so many guys playing so well. Talk about Randy or Rosary. that's going to be my unsung hero i just think uh i mean two hits three rbis he strikes out once but he scores a run it's just i know a lot of people up and down the lineup did a lot of work today offensively but for me he's just i know he went through a little lull i think the mid-may around um for a couple weeks where he wasn't really driving the baseball and he wasn't getting on base as high of a clip Sure.

For me, he's like as consistent of a performer on offense as you possibly can get. I always think when I think consistency, I think Ehayonio Suarez from 2022 to 2023. The guy's going to play a good defense. He's going to hit a couple of tanks. He's going to strike out a couple times. Right. Just what he does. He's not going to go through ups and downs as much as a lot of these other players.

I think similar to Randy Rosarina, but in a different way, right? He walks a lot. So that helps just him being able to get on base. He steals bases, too. a ace stealer. And that really helps your offense kind of get you in better positions. Absolutely.

I trust him in the big moment. I know he has some Ks that look a little weird, but he never goes through like giant stretches where he looks completely lost at the plate. I know he's, and like everyone kind of thinks of Randy Rosarena and his peak as like the 2020 playoffs

dude who just went insane. That isn't who he is anymore, unfortunately. He's not going to hit 30, 40 home run. he may hit 20. But he's just a guy that's going to hit some doubles. He's going to get on base. He's going to steal some bases.

And I just think offensively it's as consistent as you can get. And I really like him. Honestly, I think his defense has actually looked better recently in left field. It's not great by any means, but it's definitely not as bad as I remember it being. So what are your thoughts on Randy? Yeah, you know, and I guess I would only push back that he did, I think, look a little lost at the beginning of June. But, and the only other complaint I have here is I'd like to see the ball go over the fence

a little bit more. Yeah, I would. Here's the difference here. Like, Julio has hit any home runs. Randy Orozarena's hit all of one home runs. The difference is a Rosarina is getting a bunch of doubles, a bunch of doubles. And that really helps. He's slugging.

And he's walking, too. And he's walking. So that 431 slugging percentage is significant because it helps get guys into scoring position. And then when he's drawing walks, he's stealing those bases. Sure, yeah, I'd like to see more pop. I'd love to see more pop from a lot of these guys, other than Big Dumber, of course. And it's weird to say,

where you hit five home runs. But I'd like to see, you know, more of more Julio Dingers. I'd love to see more Randy Dingers. I'd love to see more Polanco Dingers as well. But you know you're going to get a pretty good darned bat from Randy Rose Arena every time he's up. And it's why I would consider moving him up in the lineup. I like the fact that he can get on base for Big Dumber and Polanco

and those guys to drive him in. It's something at least you should think about. Maybe he's not as comfortable hitting there. He's never really hit there in his entire life. But I'm really am happy with Randy Rosarina. And I think that's one of the best trades Jerry to Potos made by far. And he had a really solid baseball game again today. Yep.

It's good to see him. Also, weird note, not weird, but just of note, Jorge Placol by second base today. So that's another thing to add on to the positive outlook in terms of his health. he's been also better offensively since he has gotten healthier as of late. Right. Just Donovan Solano, really quick staff. He had three hits in every game this series.

Yeah. Like he is mashing the baseball. And they're not like Dink and Dunk's one. He's not, he's living up to his name, Donnie Farrell is at this point. And the only thing I'll point out about Solano is, you know, he was struggling to say the very least, you guys all know that obvious point. is incredibly obvious. It wasn't like he was struggling with great metrics.

Like, oh, he was like making so much hard contact. Getting unlucky. Yeah. Getting unlucky. No, he was really bad. Like really, really bad. But I give credit to the Mariners for saying, this guy has a track record, right? This guy does have the ability to get on base to hit lefties.

And right now it's what he's doing against right handers, which is really impressive. I give them credit for not, it's such a weird thing to do, for not giving in to us idiots, right? You're saying, this guy's got to go, this guy's got to go. Same thing with what you were saying about Palacca staying in the lineup. Yeah, 100%. It's the exact same thing, right? Like you have to, especially in a sport like baseball,

you have to give these guys the chance to figure things out. And when you don't give them that chance, it's almost like starting over when you give them that chance again, right? Because they have to get back into that swing of thing. literally and figuratively. Donovan Solano's been awesome. It's been really fun to see. I still don't want him to be my starting first baseman for a playoff team,

but that doesn't mean he can't help you a lot. Like that weapon off the bench against lefties, are spelling a couple of guys. Remember when people were asking if he was going to play third base, by the way? Yeah, that's not going to happen. But he is going to be a solid bench option for you. And on top of that, like we mentioned earlier, year. He's going to be that solid bench option for you, who's also one of the true leaders in the

clubhouse as well. Yeah, and we mentioned this like a couple weeks ago when he kind of first started to come back into his own a little bit. That guy is well revered by a lot of players in the house, especially in the Latino group. He's a, he's a translator for them. He's, I've been around it. Like I said, not as much this year as I had the last couple years. But he is that type of guy that everyone kind of flocks to. And they talked. And if, you watch in the dugout after a lot of at-bats, he's always chatting with someone. It's always, he's always chatting with someone helping him out. So I kind of love that role for him. And I agree with you. I don't think he should be a starting first base. Right now, he should.

Like just keep this hot street going until he cools down, which he eventually will. Sure. But having that guy in your clubhouse as a pinch hitter, pretty good defensively at first base as well. So you need some sort of defensive substitution there. I wouldn't mind that either. No doubt. That kind of do it all roll off the bench, I think is a really, really good role for him. Yeah. And again, there's going to be roster construction questions here. Like there's going to be, how are you getting better?

Because this team has to still add at the deadline. It's the most important deadline, I think, in Seattle Mariner history. It keeps saying it seems. Yeah. Well, we do. And look, they did well in the deadline last year, right? They did. We're super happy to see that Randy Rose Arena is still a Seattle Mariner at this point.

But there's going to be interesting roster construction issues. Somebody asked I just lost it if Domkin's own could play first base. Yeah, he played it in college and it'd be a position I think that he would take to pretty easily if you wanted to go that route. I prefer him there rather than Luke Rayleigh personally. Yeah, I think I would too because Domkins owns such a bad outfielder that I want. That's kind of my point. Like if you're going to play both of them, I'd rather Luke Rayley and Wright and Dom at first. For sure.

And, you know, there's going to be roster constructions about Garver, whether or not he should still be on the team. It's a weird thing to say after he hits two home runs yesterday. Let's not go two cuckoo banana pants here. But it's an interesting time. It's an interesting time. And it's fun that it's an interesting time because we're talking about a positive instead of a negative.

What the heck are we going to do here? We're talking about what makes this team the best and how can we upgrade while keeping this depth because, you know, this is why you build a farm system, Anderson. And I know Ty and Colby will talk a bunch about this over the next month. Make sure you guys are checking out their show. By the way, please hit like and subscribe. We really appreciate it, all that good stuff. It's a critical time.

It is a very critical time. And now begins a three game series against the twins where the twins have not been playing some great baseball. Four game series, excuse me. It's going to be interesting. It's going to be really interesting. Yeah, really quick. It seems like almost everyone kind of got a game.

get right series in in chicago except one player and that's who's hooter rhodriguez yeah he gets a hit today uh kind of the parachute single uh he gets a hard liner taken away from him as well so i guess those two kind of cancel out to me so like yeah a one hit deserves sure uh but it just seems like with everyone else figuring it out a little bit more offensively is it just a coincidence that he's kind of going through some struggles right now while everyone else is kind of getting back or is there something to be more of concern, not necessarily in the long, long term, but at least for the rest of this year?

It's an interesting question. And the results are the results, right? He didn't have very many hits in this series. But I actually was encouraged by the fact that the ball was getting into the outfield. And there was a lot of hard contact. Like yesterday he had two balls hit over 105 miles per hour. And they weren't on the ground. They were not on the ground.

He just missed a home run today, too. Hit it into the deepest part. Actually, just missed two homers today. that second one, which I need to watch it again if that's actually an error on Suzuki or not, but it's pretty close. That would have been out in 10 of 30 parks. So we almost had a couple of homers today. The results are the results. Like he has to start seeing more extra base hits fall in. Like that's such a weird thing to say. But you know what I mean? Like singles are good because he can run and he could, boy, can he ever run? And the defense is great. I start seeing more extra base

hits. But I saw the process of those extra base hits starting to fall in happen over the weekend. So I'm encouraged by that. Let's see what happens in Minnesota. Placies perform pretty well in before and see if that can lead to it. But the results are the results. Like one for six isn't good enough. It's right. And one for six when you're, you know, hitting a bunch of, you know, lineouts or you're hitting the ball hard every single time is different. Like I'm not, and we're just reactants to today, but I still have yet to really see a pulled fly ball. That's kind of the main thing that I'm looking for. Even the one to right field to Suzuki, that's going the other way.

And I get it, like, that's a whole Edgar thing. Like, you need to go the other way to avoid all the strikeouts, yada, yada, yada. But that's where he gets his power from. I just have not seen a pulled fly ball in a long time. He kind of gets his power that way. Like, if we go back to that amazing July a couple years ago, he was hitting the ball out to right field an awful lot. Like he has ranked, and here's the thing with

Julio, because he has the probably one of the three or four best bat speeds in all of baseball when he's at his healthiest, he can wait on that ball and drive that ball out to right field or put that ball into the right field gap, right? But it's not doing that enough, right?

Like, he's got to start taking advantage of mistakes and just, I'm okay with him topping the ball here and there. And like hitting a few where he gets under it to left field, because I just want him to get back into the practice of driving the ball out again to left field. Like, I don't want to go too crazy here. Like the value we're still providing. And like, you know, the results are the results. But I saw the signs of flashes of where he's starting

to pick the baseball up better. And that's important. Plus, I will point out that a bunch of you have potted out. And by the way, thanks for so many of you coming out today. 168 people watching us. That's ridiculous. We don't deserve this. I do. It's just not that good a show. I'm just telling you right now. It is just not that good. Speak for yourself, Christopher. I am the host with the most right here.

I am definitely speaking for myself. Real quick, I'm hosting for Ian Furness on Monday and Tuesday. Quick promo there. Excited to do that. What the hell was I even talking about? Julio process. Yeah.

Yeah. June has been a horrible month for Julio throughout his career. Horrible. I've seen enough in this latter part of June that I believe that the big, July is coming. All right. Parasoth, Phil, Andy, if you missed it, we did have our wonderful nuts ad, our wonderful pistachios.

I meant to add it and subtracted it. Sorry about that. You're good. You're good. I think we both saw the same comment at the same time. So that was perfect. But once again, appreciate you guys coming to hang out with us. It's over 270 of you live. That's great. Share it with your friends. Like the video. We love having more and more people come and hang out of this every single day. It's so much fun, especially in winning series like this. The Mariners take two out of three in Chicago against the Cubs against a good lineup against a good team.

Offense looks great. Let's continue this good role going into Minnesota for four games. We will talk to you guys tomorrow. Have a good one and say hi to your families for us. I don't know why. It's going with that. But, you know, do it. By the way, it's Minnesota. Okay, excuse me, Minnesota.

And by the way, I listen back. You absolutely said Kellanick.