Locked On Mariners - Daily Podcast On the Seattle Mariners - MARINERS POSTCAST: Seattle Mariners LOOK DEAD after trade deadline vs Detroit Tigers

Episode Date: August 5, 2026

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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. Where do I start with this team? A man alive. Tough one night, guys. We had good debuts from Taylor Ward, Sir Anthony Dominguez, and they fought till the end. Yeah, just not our night tonight, unfortunately.

you know, you know, her perfect day for baseball. Just clear skies. Everything was perfect tonight. You know, playing against a really good baseball team that really showed like they really wanted to win it tonight in the Detroit Tigers. And they did that at the deadline as well. I can't think of anything else. Just pathetic.

Yeah, it's funny how they try and sell to us. And they get us every single time, guys. I'm going to try and filter my thoughts. but maybe, maybe not. They sell us every single time that this, oh, this is where they change. This is where they turn it around. And to be fair, maybe what,

three of the last four years they have. And more often than not, you know, they, I guess two of the four, they made the playoffs and the other two they didn't. But they eventually turned it around in all four, even in 23 and 24 as well. It took, you know, probably a little too much in 2024,

and that's why they ended up not missing out. But this year, I don't see anything that's turning this team around, guys. This is not like, oh, it's renewed energy in the clubhouse after the deadline. Yeah, I mean, Taylor Ward's going to come and make just a huge difference. You know, Sir Anthony Dominguez

really helps that bullpen, you know, and we're just ready to go. Brendan Donovan's just, he's the guy. It's like adding an acquisition at the trade deadline when you get him back. I'm just tired of hearing it. I really am. It's just these teams dead.

They're dead. And I've said this for the last three weeks. They're dead. They're not doing anything right. Emerson Hancock looked terrible today. I would have rather had Luis Castillo in there. I would have rather had Luis Castillo in the bullpen situation instead of Sir Anthony Dominguez, to be completely honest.

So I'm so glad it saved John Stanton some money, though. I'm so glad. I'm so glad it saved him some money. You know, it's a win for a trade for the Mariners. I can't believe. they got the White Sox to accept that. Just an absolute win. To save money,

what's so important to us, baseball fans here is we're trying to win a World Series for the first time. Go to a World Series for the first time. Yeah. We're talking about Jimothy cards as Colt Emerson strikes out on three pitches and one of the most feeble at bats I've ever seen. A few innings after he has an awful error that leads to the first Detroit Tigers run.

We may need to have a difficult conversation with him. The only thing is the most difficult part of that conversation is, okay, if you do that, who replaces him? My thoughts are all over the place, guys. I kind of, like I said, I'm in a little bit of an unfiltered mode right now. But let's start with a start. Emerson Hancock was bad. This was the definite last couple of years of Emerson Hancock instead of this year,

Emerson Hancock. This is why I was advocating for if you're going to trade one starting pitcher, it would be him, because he's never going to have a higher value than right now or before today, I should say, because of how much control he has, because you don't know if this kind of year is a flash in the pan or if this is kind of really who he is. The track record would say that it's a little bit of a flash in the pan. And I just, I don't know, man. It looked bad today.

I realize Detroit has a good offense and they've been playing well as of late. They mentioned on the broadcast. This was, I think only one team that was the Boston Red Sox in the American League had a better record than Detroit in the month of July. But man, alive. It was so bad. He was laying everything over the middle of the plate. He wasn't able to throw his breaking balls for strikes. And he was walking guys.

I mean, if you look, it's just an all-around bad performance. And he's never going to be the guy to strike a bunch of people out. right. He does get six Ks today though, which is interesting. But it just eight hits, four runs. Three of them were earned. One of them was on Cole Timerson. We'll talk about that a little bit later. The home run. And then Sir Anthony Dominguez comes in later. Michael Rucker and, you know, Simpson do their job. But Sir Anthony Dominguez comes in and just absolutely is a turd. He now is officially the worst ERA in a Mariners history. No minimum innings required. This team's just too funny, man. The moral of the story, guys, is that I'm done drinking the Kool-Aid that this sort of half-ass, half-by, not aggressive, keeping hold of your prospects, staying a hold of your timeline, is going to do anything for this team. I realize that that can be true, but what also can be true is this team is underperforming.

I believed this roster should be the best team in the American League West. It should be one of the best teams in the American League, top three, four, around that area at the very least. And they're underperforming. But if we're talking just this season, just this season, why did anyone think? And I'm just as guilty of it as anyone. Why did anyone think that this deadline was going to all of a sudden just wake up the Mariners?

because they DFAed Mitch Garver and Rob Reff Schneider two months too late that's why everyone's believing now I like Taylor Ward as a pickup I like it

I don't hate Sir Anthony Dominguez obviously a terrible night tonight I think he's an upgrade on Nick DeVila and whatever but he's not changing anything that's not changing anything here it's just

I don't know man it's um it's bad it this team again looks dead and they look like they're all looking around for someone else to do something to wake everybody up and no one wants to do it right now it's not like not cow not not josh not hulio randy is not ever going to be that guy i don't think he's having a decent year but it's not he's not ever going to be the guy to carry an offense or anything like that so it's it's just bad and i again I'm not to say all the Blaine goes to manager, maybe not even most of the Blaine goes to the manager,

but some at least does. They just, they look completely dead. You need someone to kick them in the butt to wake them up and have them realize it's August 4th. The American League's wide open. The Houston flipping Astros are in first place in the ALS and you're letting them walk away with it

because you guys refuse to take this as like an urgent time to play baseball. And you're all, like, with very few exceptions, Cole Young, Dom Canzon, and Randy Rosarena. Everyone else is underperforming. Absolutely underperforming. There's no one that's playing above their talent level beside those three guys. And that includes pitching staff, too, guys. That includes pitching staff.

So I realize that everyone loves to just say, hey, you know, eventually this team's going to turn it around. But what tells you that's going to happen at this? this point. I'm serious. What tells you that's going to happen? Just, just the numbers, because watching this baseball team does not make me think that anything's ever going to change with this 2026 version of the Seattle Mariners. It's not 2025 anymore. I love that team. I think that was one of my most fun experiences watching a baseball team play. It is not that team. It is not at all. And I realized it's a lot of the same players. I realize it's the same manager. It's the same approach. I

guess, but it is not the same baseball team. And the quicker that the players realize that, and they realize that right now, you are a 55 and 59 team third place in your division and lost to a team that just got rid of its two best pitchers, including its best player. And you look far inferior to them. Detroit Tigers look like a much better baseball team than the Seattle Mariners do. And that's sad. That's completely sad. So, I don't care what you did. I don't care if you made these marginal ads at the deadline. It's just, it's not good enough.

And it's funny because I actually somewhat agree with Jerry Depoto when he says if this team's going to be what they want to be this year, the improvement is going to come from internally. Yes, I do agree with that. You look at the baths that were moved at the deadline. There wasn't much. It was Elliot Ramos, Adley Ruchman, and Taylor Ward is probably the third best bat. Maybe Luis Garcia, depending on what you.

depending on what you need. But we didn't need a left hand. We needed a right hand. So it's, yeah, I get it. Like that statement of itself is probably factual, right? But, you know, that, A, that doesn't include the bullpen, which is another story. You relied on Sir Anthony Dominguez and his stuff to hopefully find the best out of, but, you know, refuse to look at the one thing that has made him a below average reliever for the last couple years.

And that's his command. and that showed itself tonight. But it's these guys that you are relying on to internally improve, so to speak, are not doing it at all. And there's no sign that they are going to. Julio looks insanely easy to pitch to right now. Cal Raleigh looks like he wants to cry

every time he comes to the plate. Josh Naylor swings at anything up at his neck and somehow ground balls it every single time. eight home runs. Last home run was June 4th, I want to say, for your first baseman that you just paid. Your starting pitching can't get past the fifth inning or sixth inning. And your bullpen minus maybe one or two guys has heavily underperformed this year. It's just what is going on with this team. And when you look at that many different aspects of the team that is far below what you expect them to be,

that's when it comes to manager. That's when it comes to, you know, what's going on behind the scenes here? Because there's something weird. And they're not being talked to in the right way. They're not being led in the right way. It would be one thing to have Cal alone being, having an awful year, right?

All right. Regression, it happens. You have one bad year, even really good players like that that you wanted to win the MVP last year. But the fact that many different parts of this team are underperforming tells you, yeah, that's something that's going on right now. Mariners lose, 80. I should have probably mentioned that a little bit earlier,

but I wanted to rant a little bit. 55 and 59, you now have a worst record than the Detroit Tigers that just got rid of Terrick Scoobble and Casey Meis. Yeah. Yeah, you got, you have a. record than a team that just as much sold as anyone at the deadline. But let's let's let's let's let's believe that this team is coming around that we're close. And, uh, you know, a run is coming.

Pathetic. Just pathetic. Four hits. Zero runs. You get shut out. Bad air leads to a run. Let's break. Let's come back. Let's, uh, let's discuss the offense as a whole. And, uh, let's discuss a little bit of cold. Emerson. because I think it's a big issue. Yeah, he's not the reason why the Mariners are where they are right now. He's not the main reason, I should say, but he is a reason. Maybe not even him specifically, because he shouldn't be asked to do this.

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Stance, the official sock partner of Major League Baseball. Learn more at stance.com. Welcome back. Mariner's Postcast, Anderson Hurst here. Just a few minutes left. I went a little late on the first segment. I just want to quickly talk about Colt Emerson because, I mean, yes, you can look and see the JP Crawford's on the aisle and not a lot of options are available. But it's bad right now. He's not only very bad at the the plate, like very poor. There were a couple of bats tonight that were just absolutely feeble. He doesn't look like a major league baseball player right now.

And like I said, it's not just at the plate. It's in the field as well. And that was one thing I thought we would be getting a little bit better with, with Colt Emerson. Look, it's probably still better than J.P. Crawford at shortstop. But it's not by much. It's really not by much. His error today where he had the slow ground ball,

he tries to make a play, just eat it. just eat it, right? And, you know, yes, it would be great to have you throw that guy out, right? And that makes it two outs at that point. But he just, he absolutely shanks a throw. It causes the first run. And yeah, I mean, it's not, you can't solely blame the loss on that. I get that.

And you can't solely blame him for what the Mariners, you know, failures are at this point in this season. But he's not helping. he's not helping this baseball team. He's probably hurting it more than anything else. And I realize that, A, you don't have many other options, and B, you kind of need this to work based off of already paying him a decent amount without having him ever set foot in Major League Baseball.

And I'm not saying that he won't be a good player. But we're talking about a 20-2016 that I was told we're being aggressive and we're playing with some urgency here. If you're doing that, you're not letting this 21-year-old rookie continue to play. You need to find someone else in that spot. He's not good defensively. He's very, very bad offensively right now.

And if nothing else, it's for his own development. Let him go down, back to AAA. It happens all the time. The classic stories, Mike Trout, came up and originally sucked. Went back down to AAA, came back up, and raked for the rest of his career. Like, it's okay.

It doesn't mean him going down to AAA is going to just derail his entire career and that he's going to be a failure, right? I realize that people are a little bit more impatient now, including myself. With all of these young players, you look across the diamond and you see players like Kevin McGonagall and Max Clark doing that for the Tigers, why can't we have those? I get it. But it's okay to go down and hone your skill and figure it out a little bit. it would be one thing if this team was, and maybe they will be soon enough, but if it would be one thing if this team was completely out of it and not playing for

anything, yes, I would want him up here just to get the reps, right? Even if he struggled through it. But that's not the case right now. And you can tell he's playing with a little bit of pressure and pressing a little bit, because I did not think he would be this bad offensively. And not just like results wise, it's bad process wise too. look comfortable at the plate. He's swinging at everything. He's chasing a bunch. He's very susceptible to the strikeout. So I think it's time to have that conversation, maybe when JP Crawford

gets healthy. But yeah, it's just not good. It's just not good with him right now. I'm not, again, I'm not blaming the Mariners' struggles solely on Colt Emerson. But it's, it's something that I think has gone under the radar for a little bit now. And any team that wants to say that they're competing for a division in a world series and playoffs and all that stuff this year in 26 that needs to be a conversation that happens right now because it's hurting your baseball team right now uh 8-0 mariners loss ser anthony deminges was awful i mean what what do i even say at this point your two deadline acquisitions were um taylor ward and he goes what oh for four oh for three with a k um and uh also look

like he's swinging at everything. I was told he was this on-base machine and he looks like he doesn't know what a ball is. Weird. As soon as he gets here, forgets how to do that. And look, I like Taylor Ward. I think that was a decent addition for the Mariners, for sure. But Saranthian Dominguez, man, holy point one innings pitch. So he just gets one out, four hits, four runs, all earned, two walks and two home runs against him back to back. Just not good. just not good whatsoever. Hopefully, um, he can find a way to own it in a little bit, but I think a lot of teams have thought that in the last couple years and it's just not, um, not going to do it. And I'm seeing a couple comments. Like, it's not just Emerson.

Cal Josh and Julio all suck this season. Yeah, they did. Less so Julio. Uh, he has a 730 OPS right now. And I get it. He's not exactly what you expect of him right now. But it, there's another level of suck with Colt Emerson. And it's also like those guys, are established major league players at this point. All of them, you know, have been in the league for multiple years, right? The least amount is Julio with four years in this league, right? So you trust them to kind of figure out, Colt Emerson, this is his rookie year. So it's definitely going to be one of those where you are thinking about his development, but you're also thinking about this team right now and what the best move to win is. Because you're not benching Cal, Naylor, and Julio, no matter how poorly

they're playing for the rest this year. And I've been someone who has mentioned that this, this core is the main reason why this team is sucking right now. So, um, it sucks. And, uh,

that's the main reason. That is the main reason. So if those three guys don't figure it out, or at least two of the three, there's nothing happening this year. And I still believe there's nothing happening this year. This looks like a dead baseball team. Prove me wrong.

Come back and prove me wrong. Go win the series the next couple days. But I don't know if that's going to happen. But, uh, we'll talk to you guys after the morning, after the game tomorrow, on 640 first pitch. Mariners lose this one, 8-0. And the day after the deadline, where everyone expected there to be rejuvenated vibes, looks as dead as this baseball team has ever looked in this

year. So that's fun. Let's talk. Let's do it again tomorrow. We'll talk to you tomorrow. Have a good one. Mariners Postcast, Anderson Hurst. Have a good night.