Locked On Mariners - Daily Podcast On the Seattle Mariners - Measuring the SUCCESS of the 2025 Seattle Mariners + the BIGGEST Questions Heading Into the Winter

Episode Date: October 22, 2025

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So now that we've had some time to process the end of the Mariners season, how do we feel about it? Let's put the 2025 Seattle Mariners to rest. Colby, hit it. You are Locked-on Mariners, your daily Seattle Mariners podcast, part of the Lockdown Podcast Network, your team every day. Ahoy, Sailors, it is Wednesday, October 22nd, 2025. This is Tedding Azales and Colby Petnode for the Lockdown Marys Podcast, part of the Lockdown Podcast Network, your team every day.

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For more information, go to patreon.com for slash control the zone. Link in the description of this episode. So the Barrier's season, as we all know, is over. It ends in heartbreaking fashion in game seven of the ALCS. Today, we're going to look back on the season as a whole. Discuss how we feel about all of it. We'll talk about what we'll remember most about this team. And we'll also give a general overview of the off season to come,

just our general thoughts going into the winter. But we should start with a conversation that we had mentioned in passing over the last few weeks. Was this a successful season? for the Mariners. Now, Cal Raleigh, after the game on Monday, outright called it a failure. Obviously, emotions running at their highest right after after that one. So I'm not surprised that he would say that. But Colby, you and I talked about this with Anders Hurst in our ALCS roundtable.

That, you know, accomplishing what this team did during the regular season, you know, in the trades that they did at the deadline, going on that insane run in September, winning the division, all that, just to not win a playoff series, that would have been a failure. You would have had a pretty sour taste in your mouth if that happened. But since they did wind up beating the Tigers and the ALDS, that kind of lifted the pressure of all of that. But I guess because of how the ALCS went and how Monday night specifically went,

does that kind of retroactively change how you feel about this season? No. No, I think overall it's still a positive season. Again, you know, like I want Cal and Julio and those guys to consider this, you know, a failure of a season because they didn't win the World Series. And that is the goal. But, you know, if you want to look at it in a black and white term, then I suppose this is a failure of a season.

just like it's going to be for 29 other teams. But I think, you know, it's important for us to look at the context that we don't want players to look at. We want players to be upset that they didn't win. Like that that's kind of the point. But for us, when we look back at this season, you know, they won a playoff series. They won their first division title in 24 years. They got to the ALCS for the first time in 24 years. They got to a game seven for the first time ever.

They were eight outs away from going to their first ever World Series. And they did it largely with the massive support of a fan base that really for the last two and a half years had been kind of, I don't want to say fading per se, but like the interest level amongst the team had slowly been fading after their really cool 2022 run where they broke the initial drought. So they reinvigorated the fan base and the region. Mariners baseball is cool again. It is, you know, we saw Mariners baseball be so important that a game 3,000 miles away led to the cheapest Monday night football tickets in Seattle in about 20 years. Nobody wanted to go to that game. Hardly anybody in the stadium paying attention to that game until, you know, the second half started.

So we've seen this. We saw the buy-in from other franchises. We saw the buy-in from, you know, Mariner fans. who have been reignited and, you know, their passions are back up. And we saw new people, you know, jump aboard and all that. And, you know, you can call them fair weather fans or whatever or bandwagoners. Who cares? They're here.

Keep them. Yeah. The goal should be to keep them and not let them go. And it's one of those things where, you know, the fan base, which is regional, it's one of the things that Seattle, the Mariners and the Seahawks as well as they have, is that they are a regional team. There is not a lot of competition within a thousand miles, a thousand mile radius of these teams.

And so you have to have the attention of Idaho and Oregon and eastern Washington and all that. And they got it. They got it. So I think when you look at the grand picture or the big picture here, this season was a success in a lot of ways, ultimately. Again, I want Cal to think it's a failure. That's where I want his mindset to be. But I think from our perspective,

perspective of the fan base, a perspective of the health of the franchise in general. This absolutely was a very successful season because they went places they've never been. They put the team kind of back on the map a little bit here. After it like this is the next upstart team, this team could be the next Astros. And then they tanked for two years.

And everybody's same old Mariners, right back to it, the whole 54% saga and all that, you know, blah, blah, blah, and now we've kind of, or they've kind of turned the narrative a little bit once again, the key is going to be to continue to turn it by having the offseason they need to have. And we'll talk plenty about that, you know, over the next few months. But yeah, I think ultimately it is a very successful season. But I think the success, the long-term success of this season is going to be about what ownership does over the next four or five months. Yeah. And we'll talk about that a little later on a bit more.

in the show. But yeah, I mean, this off season that they had leading into the season was so bad that if you told me like they're going to go to the ALCS, I would have been doing backflips. Like one, I wouldn't have believed you, frankly. Because look, going into this season, you know, obviously they had a lot of talent still, right, with the rotation and Julio and Cal and obviously no one could have expected the year that Cal was going to go on. but still like Cal to me was already the best catcher in franchise history.

He was already the best catcher in Major League Baseball going into this season before he did anything that he did this year. So like there was obviously a lot of talent that, you know, could potentially carry you into, you know, contention. But, you know, I said so many times leading into the season, you know, whenever we talked about, you know, what our thoughts were on this team or whenever I made some guests. appearances on, you know, shows, whether it be here on the lockdown network or on some other Mariners shows or what have you, that like, if you told me that they won, you know, like 80 games, I wouldn't be surprised. If he told me that they won like 95 games and they won the division, I wouldn't be surprised. This was just such a high variance club.

I just, I didn't think, though, that the likelihood was that they would be the, you know, the 90 plus win team that won the division and all that stuff, right? I thought by far the likelier outcome of those two would be the only one like 77 to 80 games. Things went sideways. They weren't able to stay healthy enough, stuff like that. Right. So the fact that like they got to this point blew my expectations out of the water. So it's a roaring success, frankly, especially given the fact that again, they did really nothing.

I mean, like, look, they brought Horie Palanco back and that was. a huge, huge win for them. Yeah, but like the process behind that, I mean, like you remember how we were talking about that move and how we were just talking about the offseason in general. It was a terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible off season. They really did nothing to support this club and put it in a great position to, you know, do what they wound up doing in the end. So, yeah, the fact that they that they got to this point, I mean, yeah, it sucks how it ended.

it sucks that they're not still playing baseball right now. I am bitter about how game seven went. I'm bitter about the fact that you even got to a game seven, frankly. I'm bitter about the reasons why you got to a game seven and all that. But in general, taking a step back, objectively looking at this season as a whole, I don't know how you could not say it is a massive, massive, massive success. it is one of the best seasons in this franchise's history, which frankly says more about this franchise's history,

I think, but still, like, it was a hell of a ride that we all went on that this club took us on. It's a season that I won't forget. And again, like I said, on Monday,

I was, you know, I'm incredibly grateful to have helped tell the story of. And, yeah, I just, you know, I guess for me,

maybe retroactively, the levels of success for this season changes depending on what they do next. Yeah. It's it really is, you know, the important thing, whether you think this season is a success or not, right? If you're just one of those, they didn't win the World Series. It's a failure. First of all, I don't know why you're watching sports. That sounds like a miserable way to take in sports. Championship or it doesn't matter.

Nothing matters if you don't win a championship. okay, that sounds terrible. But if that is you, I think the important thing is whether that is you or not, is we need to determine, is this the outlier? Is this the one out of every 10 years? Maybe they could do something like this.

Or is this the start of becoming the type of franchise that regularly plays in these high leverage postseason games and regularly plays and, you know, deep into October and, you know, eventually hopefully gets to a world, series and wins one, but like, can they go to the ALCS, you know, three times and in five years or whatever? And can they, can you get to a point where the Mariners don't go to the ALCS? We look at it. Like, that's a disappointing outcome. Because right now, it's really impossible to look at the Mariners going to the ALCS and saying, like, that's a disappointing outcome because, I mean,

it's literally as far as they've ever been. So, yeah, I think, you know, the question is, uh, the, the important question here is not so much. Is this a significant. success or is this a failure? I think the important question here is, is this the start of something or is it the end of something? And you missed your opportunity here. Now you kind of have to not start over per se, but you kind of have to rebuild back into where you are. And we won't know the answer to that for a couple of years, unfortunately. So what will we remember most about this season? We'll talk about that in just a moment. But first reminder, this episode of the lockdown era's podcast is brought to you by Monarch and Price Picks. Let's be honest, most of us can't even name all our financial accounts, let alone what they're worth between 401Ks, savings, and investments. It's easy to lose track, and that can mean leaving money on the table. That's why I started using Monarch, an all-in-one personal finance tool that brings your entire financial life together in one clean, easy-to-use interface on your laptop or your phone.

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But Colby, what will you remember most? Cow. Like Cow Raleigh had a historical season, 65 home runs total. Nobody in American League history has hit more in one calendar season, including the postseason, obviously. So, and he did it as a catcher. And he played pretty much every single day, and he was great, and whether or not he wins the MVP or not.

Who knows, but he had the best year of anybody in the American League. And so you're going to remember that. And that's the first thing you're going to remember. Unfortunately, yeah, you are going to remember Dan Wilson's blunder. I mean, it's still being talked about a couple days later as like the single dumbest thing that a manager tit this postseason. You're going to remember, or at least I'm going to remember, that I struggle to say this because it has like play this back in nine months written all over it.

But did we maybe start to see the emergence of Julio Rodriguez clutch hitter as he started to change that narrative around? Because I mean, he tried to carry the game seven performance on his back. And he did for a majority of it. he tried to will them to a game one win against the Tigers way back one. Remember, he was the only guy getting on base, and then he won them game two with his double down the line. Julio didn't have a ton of hits. I think you look at his batting average, it's pretty mediocre, but he had a ton of big hits

in this run. And also, you know, some bad at bats. We're going to remember the bad ones more than the good ones. That's just typically how it works. But he had a ton of big hits in this one. in this playoff run. I think you're going to remember Jorge Polanco, obviously, like playoff Jorge. Didn't end very well.

The last three games against Toronto were bad, unfortunately. Just kind of ran out of steam there at the end. But obviously, he kind of carried you in the Detroit series in a lot of ways. But yeah, you're going to remember Cal. You're going to remember Jorge Polanco's insane run. You're going to remember Josh Naylor's introduction to Seattle. battle very clearly. And yeah, you're going to remember a bunch of the smaller hits.

Polos game winner, beating Scoobel four times, including twice and five days. You know, and I hope most people, I know most people remember him for giving up the home run, but I hope people I still appreciate like the insane run that Bizarro went on down the stretch here where, you know, poor guy is going to be forever associated with one pitch, but he was your, you know, your best reliever for most of the month. And, unfortunately, you know, got used one game too much, and that was all she wrote. And so, you know, he really left everything out there on the line for you. So, yeah, I think you're mostly going to remember the positive things here.

But, yeah, part of the positivity, there has to be some negative things that come out of this season and there were and you know but i think when we talk about 2025 it's going to be fondly but i think the thing that people are going to like 10 years from now people are going to be like what do you still remember about the 2025 team i think the first answer is going to be one of two things it's either going to be cow raleigh or it's going to be dan wilson is a moron and they blew a chance to go to the world series i really think those are going to be the two things unfortunately. And it kind of stinks that one decision is going to be neck and neck with a guy who had 65 home runs while playing catcher. But it's going to be. It has to be. It's the same thing

as Pete Carroll throwing from the one. It's very similar to that. And unfortunately, when we talk about the 2013 Seahawks, we talk about the Legion of Boom and the Super Bowl demolishing Peyton Manning and the tip and all these great things. When we talk about, you know, Super Bowl 49, We talk about the 2014 Seahawks. What do we talk about? The play at the one-year-old. Yeah, we don't talk about the comeback in the NFC championship. We talk about the one-yard line.

We don't talk about the Chris Matthews game. We don't talk about, you know, Mar-Shan's best season ever. We don't talk about, you know, all the insanity that went in with the Percy Harvin thing. And we don't talk about that. We talk about one thing about that 2014 team. And in a lot of ways, Cal Raleigh was this. version of Marshawn Lynch, 2014 Seahawks. And we don't talk about 2014 Marshawn when we talk about that team.

We talk about the one play. And I think Dan Wilson, unfortunately, has put himself in that category where Cal Raleigh was incredibly. And he had a really good playoff run, too, by the way. It's not like he just, you know, fell apart. Cal was amazing in the playoffs. Right. He's your second best hitter pretty much throughout the start of, well, second or third

best hitter throughout the entire playoff run. And he had some big home runs and all that while catching. Again, all these games, caught every single pitch of the postseason. But we're, I hope we talk about that. But I just, I think the way we are wired as sports fans is we're going to talk about the negative as much as we're going to talk about the positive. And the negative, the biggest overwhelming negative of 2025 is going to be 10 years for now, Bizarro versus Mugios. In that situation. So, yeah, I mean, I think those have to be the answers.

It has to be Cal and then it has to be how Dan managed game seven. I think those are the two things we're going to talk about. I'm going to remember the trade deadline, the Cal season, obviously, unfortunately, Dan's decision there in game seven. The series in Houston, though, I think to be that was the best moment of the entire year, was going down to Houston and kicking the absolute you know what out of them. that felt amazing. Well, it's going to be a very interesting off season, say the least. We will go over our general thoughts heading into the winner in just a moment. But first, a reminder, this episode of the Lock Time Airs podcast is brought to you by Fandul and Rouguette.

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So we're going to have so much time to talk about the off season because it's the off season. Now, you know, we're going to talk about every single possible player they could possibly acquire under the sun over the next few months. We're going to go every single avenue. We're going to talk about every single possible thing that they could do this off season. But to just get the ball rolling on offseason talk as we kind of put the 20, 25 Mariners to rest today, let's just go over our general thoughts going into this off season. So, Colby, just like, what's your general, I don't know, just your, your, your approach to

the soft season, just kind of what are your general thoughts going into this, into this winter? How much are the Mariners going to spend? Because when you look at just bringing back the guys who are under contract for the 2026 season, that alone is going to eat up, you know, again, assuming you, you tender the people who you're going to tender and we'll talk about, uh, arbitration and all that pretty soon. But yeah, I just looked at the math today and right now, just to bring everybody back on the contracts they've already signed and to fill out the rest of your 40-man roster with even league minimum guys, you're talking about already having about $130-ish million

committed to this group, 135, kind of depending on how they want to, you know, calculate the minimum guys and how many they need. And that's not counting Gino and Polo and Nailer and Mitch Garber and Caleb Ferguson, two guys. I'm sure everybody wants to bring back. So, you know, that it's, that is counting for the payroll or the arbitration estimates that are now out there. So like they finished this year at about 164, I believe is what Spottrack had it at as a final, 164 million dollar payroll. well, if they want to go back there, they want to get back there, then they're going to have about $30 million to spend. But again, that is without having re-signed Josh Naylor or resigned, you know, any of these other guys that you might want to resign.

So it really is going to come. And there's no guarantee they want to go back to 160. Last year, they wanted to operate it at around 150. And so, yeah, this really is about what is John Stanton and the ownership group willing to do, how important. is it to them to maintain this momentum. And that's going to determine the whole offseason because, you know, it's really hard to cut money from your payroll and get better the following year. And even if, like, for example, even if they say, oh, no, we're raising payroll another $5 million from what we started last year. And it is $155.

Okay, well, if it's $155 and you're starting at $1.35, Naylor just took up all $20 million and I still have holes at second, third, D.H. Left field, right field, left field, one of them. We have a corner outfield spot. So now I have to trade Luis Castillo to go get some more money. But now I have to spend that money on a starting pitcher because I don't trust Emerson Hancock or Logan Evans and neither should anybody to be a number five starter. And now I got to go spend that money to replace Louise Castillo and blah, blah, blah, blah, like we talked about all last winter as well. Now, do I have to go trade JP Crawford to try and. and find some money to go get some players that I desperately need. It really is hard for the Mariners to get better on paper. If ownership is not willing to step up and commit to maintaining this level of excellence,

you know, and it's great that they were able to do it once. But they have to do it again and again and again and winning is a recommitment every offseason. And so far the Mariners' ownership hasn't shown that it's committed to winning at all, really. when you want to break it down. So that is what it's all about, unfortunately. It's you kind of, you trust Jerry and Justin for the most part, not that they're perfect, but you trust them to make pretty good moves and be aggressive in trade talks and, you know,

try and look under every stone and all of that. You really do trust them to do that. But they're also, we also know that when they have as limited resources as they did, for example, last winter, they just can't. make things happen. Like there has to be some, some give and take. There has to be some backup plans and all that.

And so yeah, it's kind of one of those things like, do I trust the front office to do a pretty good job? Yes, because they've had to navigate this BS for the last three winters. Do I trust the front office to do what they need to do or the ownership to do what they need to do? No, not at all.

And so that really to me is going to tell the tale. of what the Mariners, you know, do this winter is it's going to come down to how much does John Stanton and Chris Larson in that group actually care about winning? We're going to find out. So over the course of the season, we got little nibbles of support from ownership for the front office where they kind of got out of the way. Now, we don't know everything that happened and what limitations were still put in place and all that. but, you know, they were able to extend Cal at the start of the year. They were able to take a shot on Laoti Tavares and essentially light $3 million on fire because that just did not work out at all.

And then they were able to add about $10 million in payroll, which isn't a lot, but it's something and it's something that they haven't been willing to do in the past to go out and get Ahoyneos Juarez and Josh Naylor and Caleb Ferguson at the deadline. What I'm interested to see is do those little nipples of support turn into a bigger gesture this offseason? They've obviously made a lot of playoff revenue, but there's also the TV aspect of this. Now they're, you know, root sports is no longer a thing. And Major League Baseball is going to be running their TV production and all that. You know, how does that impact things financially?

are they going to use that as an excuse? Historically speaking, the likelihood is they will, as well as the impending lockout at the end of 2026. So I'm very much in the boat of, you know, I'll believe it when I see it. But we did see some changes and how the bearers operated and their willingness to do more things, their willingness to kind of buck trend over the course this year,

specifically at the deadline with going out and going after the high profile rentals and being willing to not just go get one of them, but both of them, you know, the two biggest bats available. Will that continue? The other thing too is just like, how much turnover is they're going to be on this roster?

Because obviously there's the three free agents, the three big, big, big free agents, Naylor, Polo, and Gino. But there's also Radio Rosarena in the last year of his club control, and he's set to make $18.2 million

in arbitration. That's the projection from MLB trade rumors, and they're very, very good at projecting that stuff. So that's probably roughly where he's going to land. J.P. Crawford in the last year of his deal, he's not a good

defensive shortstop anymore. What do you do about that? Do you keep him on the roster but move him to a different position. Luis Castillo, you tried to trade him this past off season. This year, though, he was the stabilizer in your rotation when, you know, guys got hurt. And he was a big reason that you got to this point,

frankly, even though that there were times where he struggled mightily. But he's also do a nice chunk of change and his no trade clause lifts after January 1st. So has he pitched his final inning? and in a marion's uniform. There are a lot of questions here. I think the biggest one, too, is this finally the year

where they do trade one of the pitchers? Is this the most? No, yeah. Kirby or Gilbert. Specifically, yeah, Gilbert or Kirby. Yeah. Right. Is this the year where they finally do that?

So it's possible we could see a lot of big names leave. It's possible that we could also just assume that's going to happen and that really doesn't and they just kind of build upon this club, right? Sure. I'm definitely at least leaving myself open minded to that possibility. I don't think that will be the outcome here. I do think there will be significant turnover at the major league level for this club.

But it is possible that, you know, part of investing more in this club is just keeping the guys that are making a good amount of money on this club. Sure. you also need to get better. And it's tough to do that if you don't add from the outside. That's what I'm saying is, that's what I'm saying is building on top of what you already have. Well, the only way you can do that is if ownership spends significantly more than they have.

Exactly. They all kind of go hand in hand. I would say this, like my sincere hope, one for the front office, one for the ownership, just to keep things fair. One, I hope the front office has learned the value of rental players. and how club control, particularly when you're in the middle of a World Series contention title,

doesn't matter as much. And you're going to take some Ls on long-term trades, who cares? You're doing it for short-term relief. That is the point. So hopefully that carries through. Because in the winter, we know the mayors don't do that.

And they hardly do it in the summer until this last year. So hopefully that is something they've learned and they move on from. For the ownership, I hope the lesson that they learned is, wow, when we invest in the ball club, in the 26-man roster and not in bars across the street from the stadium, people will show up. 30,000 people will come on a Tuesday night when we play the freaking Rockies if we have a good baseball team. We have a good product. So I hope those are the lessons that are learned and I hope that they are applied, that ownership needs to spend more and they need to invest more in the ball club, not in the stuff surrounding the state.

stadium, invest your money in the ball club. And I hope, and I hope the front office has learned that, like, wow, rentals can be impactful and they can be a difference maker. And we should be more aggressive in that market because not only are they, you know, good players that we can get that we've largely been ignoring for the last five, 10 years, but also, they're a lot cheaper to get than multiple years of a guy. So I hope those are the two lessons that are learned. by Jerry and Justin, but also from from Stanton and and Larson, who do I think is more likely to learn their lesson? Jerry and Justin.

Yeah. By a mile. But those are the two lessons I hope that both of those groups learned in the 2025 season. Yeah, I just hope that they approach this thing from here on out as the most important club is the current one. You still have to strike a balance. You definitely don't want it to do anything. that just kills you for years and years and years down the road.

No team has ever gone all in on one season. That's not what we're suggesting. We're not suggesting to burn down the farm so that you can have one shot in 2026. And then you have to start the whole thing over again. But well, maybe the Padres have done that. But yeah. They've gotten really close. Sure.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But, but yeah, like the most important club has. to be the current one from here on now. Like, how do I win the

World Series in 2026? That's why I brought up the Scoobel thing, right? Whether that happens or not, whatever. But like, yes, yes, yes. I know. I'm going to put a board right there. And every time you mention Scoobie, I'm going to do a little line. I might have to get a couple boards. Sure, sure. But, yeah, like, that's why I mentioned the Scoobled thing is like, how

if that's possible, like, that helps me win the World Series in 20206, obviously. That should be a priority. That should be something that I heavily, heavily consider and heavily go after, right? Sure. Even if it is going to be pricey, even if it is, you know, a huge cost for maybe only one year of gain. So those are the things that I want to see out of this front office and out of this organization in general moving forward, not just for 2026, but beyond, is that it's all

about winning the world series now not setting ourselves up to you know again you got to strike a balance and there are going to be moves that are that are made with you know the long term more in mind but for the most part i want the goal and i want the motivating force behind most of the roster decisions to be how do i win the world series immediately that's going to do it for a show thank you so much for joining us here on the Lockdown Marries podcast for Colby Patnaud, I'm Tad de Gonzalez. Be sure give us a follow on Twitter at L0 underscore mirrors. You can follow me at Tadine Gonzalez, Colby at C-Pat 11, that's CPAT-1-1.

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