Locked On Mariners - Daily Podcast On the Seattle Mariners - M's Are Lousy; Everyone Goes on the IL

Episode Date: May 24, 2021

Not only are the Mariners playing poorly, but their problems with the injured list continue. D.C. talks about the three-game series in San Diego against the Padres. It was an uninteresting series for the most part, aside from Mariner sluggers Justus Sheffield and Justin Dunn getting it done on offense. Yes, that's right, the pitchers can hit, but the hitters can't. D.C. is not thrilled with the state of the team, to say the least, although there was some bad luck involved in Sunday's game, including one play that led to an inning spiraling out of control. Jason Burke of Locked On A's talked to D.C. about the upcoming series in Oakland, and today, we present the first part of that conversation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Today on Locked-on Mariners, I got nothing, gang. Welcome to Locked-on Mariners, part of the Locked-on Podcast Network, your team every day. Here's your host, D.C. Lundberg. Here we go again. Another series, another sweep. I'm D.C. Lundberg, as Joey Martin just told you, and I hope I don't get too salty on today's edition of Locked-on Mariners, part of the Locked-on Parliens. part of the Locked-on Podcast Network, brought to you by the locker room. Please remember to download rate and follow this program on whichever podcasting app that you personally care to use.

Ask your smart device to play Locked-on Mariners podcast or any program here on the Locked-on podcast network or T-L-O-P-N or T-Lop-N or T-Lopin. Other than being no-hit twice, last Friday's game may have been the low point of the season thus far. Fortunately, I didn't have to see it. I was at Avista Stadium, watching the Everett Aqua Sox beat my Spokane Indians. Not the best of games, some questionable umpiring on a couple of pickoff plays, shaky defense for both teams, poor pitching, and a wind chill factor of about negative 17 degrees. I had a great time. Anyways, for the Mariners, it was a 16-1 loss.

The first time I remember seeing it, I think it was 4-1 when I was in line with my friend to get some food, and the next time I check it was 8. to one, then nine to one, and then I stopped paying attention. The Indians were getting blown out at that point as well, but they made it late comeback against Everett's bullpen, but they came up short. I did get to see Julio Rodriguez. He was the designated hitter and hit second in the lineup. Didn't have a great day, struck out twice, if I recall.

I think he did reach base a couple other times, though. Carter Binns, the Everett Catcher, had an impressive game. Two for five with a long home run. Jack Larson was also two for five with the home run. Starting pitcher for Everett was Stephen Kolek. He looked fine, but he only pitched three innings. The starter for the Indians was Hell Chris Oliveris, and he also started when my friend and I went to opening day,

and he was spectacularly unimpressive in both starts. And he's the only Indians player on the Rockies 40-man roster. He's the number seven-rated prospect in the Rockies chain. Their minor league system must be, terrible because I just don't see it. Way too many command issues for Mr. Oliver's. Anyways, this is locked on Maron. It's not locked on Aqua Sox

or locked on Indians. So I'll move on. Friday's game was just a total bust, but there were several roster moves prior to that game. More IL trouble for the Meritors. It's becoming a theme, ladies and gentlemen. But one thing that they had not had too much trouble with prior to Friday

was the COVID-I-L but that reared its ugly head. Placed on the COVID list on Friday They were Robert Dugger, Anthony Masevich, Drew Steckenrider, and Will Vest, four bullpen arms gone in one fell swoop. Up from the Rainier's to take their places were Wyatt Mills, Aaron Fletcher, and Johann Ramirez, and in addition, Keenan Middleton was activated from the 10-day injured list.

In terms of roster moves, there's actually more. The Mariners also brought infielder Eric Campbell up from Tacoma. He pinch hit in Friday's game and collected a base hit. Campbell is a 34-year-old veteran who hasn't seen action in the major leagues since 2016 with the Mets. Also on Friday, we learned who was going to play first base until Evan White comes off the disabled list, and that would be Jacob Nottingham, a catcher by trade, but he plays a pretty decent first base. I thought he looked better defensively to Jose Marmallejo, to be honest. Pitcher Williams-Harez was signed to a minor league deal on Friday as well.

He was last in the Giants system and has big league experience with San Francisco, Pittsburgh and the Los Angeles Angels. Moving on to Saturday, and prior to that game, many more roster moves. Two of the pitchers who had been disabled and put on the COVID list were activated. Dugger and Masevich, Fletcher and Mills, were sent back to Tacoma. Domingo Topia, who had been designated for assignment earlier, was traded to the Royals for cash considerations.

Pitcher Daniel Zamor was claimed out of the Mets organization and placed on the 40-man roster. Pitcher Zach Weiss was signed to a, minor league deal, and the M's also brought over outfielder Ty Kelly from the Long Island Ducks. Mr. Weiss and Mr. Kelly, neither of them are on the 40-man roster, and I believe they're both the rate nears at this time. Now to the actual game, and through the first four innings, it looked like the mayors were at least going to be in the ball game. Then the bottom of the fifth happened, the score was one to one, and by the time the inning was over, it was six to one.

And after Eric Hosmer's three-run single, it felt as if it was just over. Even with the Mariners late rallies in the eighth and ninth innings, it never felt like they were going to come back. That Hosmer play was just a mess from start to finish. Not only was the pitch left in the middle of the zone pretty much, but there were two errors on the play. Both of them were missed throws to the plate. The play would take too long to explain in detail,

but it almost looked like the Keystone cops or something out there. Both of them were throws home within a span of a few seconds. Eric Hosmer winds up at third on the play and is driven home on the next pitch by an Austin Nola single. And as I said, even though the M's tried to mount a rally late, it was just over. This is one of the worst stretches of Mariners baseball I can remember. The Mariners, like all sports teams, are in the entertainment business. And they are committing the cardinal sin of entertainment. They're boring.

This is a boring team playing boring baseball. It would be great therapy for insomnia patients. They can tout the future all they want to. And yes, the future is bright, but people are paying to see the 2021 Mariners, not the 2024 Mariners. Speculating on the future works in stocks and commodities trading, not in the entertainment world.

There is absolutely no reason to go see a Mariners game, especially since they play in a giant, cell phone store that looks like it was made by Mattel as an accessory for Barbie. If you're thinking of traveling to Seattle to watch the Mariners, take my advice and save your money. Go see a Tacoma Rainier's game instead. They're good. Go see an Everett Aqua Sox game.

They're really good. Go to Little Rock and see an Arkansas Travelers game. That's where the future is for the most part. And minor league baseball anyways is way more affordable than a major league baseball game. There is absolutely no reason to pay to see a Mariner's game right now. None. Later on in the program, we'll have part one of a conversation I had with Jason Burke of Locked on A's yesterday regarding the impending series in the Coliseum,

which is probably going to be a three-game sweep at the hand of the Oakland A's. But right now we're here at the trivia corner, and today we have a hall pass. This gentleman spent 19 years in the big leagues as a middle infieler in the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000-od. He has a slash line of 295, 371, 444. He hit 441 doubles, 198 home runs. He stole 379 bases. He walked 939 times against 817 strikeouts. He's a 12-time All-Star, a three-time Gold Glove Award winner, and a nine-time Silver Slugger.

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Go to wealthfront.com slash locked on MLB and get started today. Today's Hall Pass subject was the 1995 National League most valuable player. That would be Mr. Barry Larkin. Never led the league in any one category, just put together a very solid career, very good defender. Remember, he played the National League many of the same years that Ozzie Smith did and still managed to win three Gold Glob Awards, 1994, 1995, and 1996. Coming up, Jason Burke and I talk about stuff, but not until C Block. We have another blowout loss to trudge through first.

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and join the MLB group for the latest league updates. Locker Room, Changing the Way we talk about sports. Now back to Lockdown Mariners and your host, D.C. Lundberg. Thank you very much, Joey Martin. There were a few more roster moves prior to Sunday's game. More COVID-injured list, badness, I'm afraid. Kendall Graveman landed on the COVID list. who has been by far the most reliable arm on the Mariners staff.

Wyatt Mills was recalled again to take his place. Brady Lale was claimed by the Phillies organization. He had been designated for assignment a few days ago. Also DF8 at that same time was first baseman outfielder Jose Marmalejos. No one claimed him, and he was outright to the Tacoma Rainiers, so he is still in the organization, though he's off the 40-man roster. As much as I have complained about his approach to the plate, I'm glad he's still in the organization.

Because he can hit. He just needs to make that adjustment. Hopefully he can. Plus, he brings versatility to the table, my goodness, with the ability to play first base, left and right field. Plus, it may give me another opportunity in the future to say, Marmalejos. He's got a great name, gang.

Sunday's game, like Saturdays, started off well. Justin Dunn got the start, and he was working on one fewer days' rest than he had been used to, and looked pretty good through four. four innings. He only needed 43 pitches to get through those four. That is, aside from the basis on balls, that's been the biggest problem for Mr. Dunn. High pitch counts and deep counts in general have been a theme for him driving up his pitch count. But through the first four innings yesterday, he was very economical. That was an average of 10.75 pitches per inning, which is very good. He had trouble in the fifth, however.

He didn't surrender any runs, but he threw 28 pitches in that inning, which was a similar total to his first three innings of the ball game. He walked Will Myers to lead off the fifth, and Myers made Dunn throw 10 pitches. A strikeout of Victor Carrotini followed, and then a four-pitch walked to Hassong Kim. Those would be the only base runners, though, but Dunn was spent, and he did not go out for the sixth. Final line for Mr. Dunn, five innings, a solo home run, off the bat of Fernando Tatte's Jr. accounting for the only run and hit he had allowed. He walked three and struck out four.

I want to give him props for something else. In his second at-bat, he got a cutter or a slider or something at the top of the zone and drove it out to right field for a double. It was damn near the base of the outfield wall, may have actually been a home run in Camden Yards, and he really didn't look bad at the plate as some pitchers can. Just as Sheffield notched a solid base hit in Saturday's game as well. Both Duns and Chef's hits were opposite field hits.

They took Scott's philosophy of going the other way to heart and were rewarded with hits. Both of those men looked like they knew what they were doing with the lumber. Unlike so many others these days, I am not in favor of the Universal D.H. I like the leagues having slightly different rules.

That's unique in sports today. I don't want to lose that. And I'd go a few steps further. I missed the days where there were separate national and American League umpires. I like the leagues almost operating as separate entities and then meeting in the World Series. But back to the game, Anthony Mosevic came in for the sixth,

and the inning started off with a little bad luck. There was a flare hit out to right field, which Mitch Hanigar almost made an impressive sliding catch on. The ball hit the heel of his glove, actually. May have gotten lost in the sun a little bit. I don't know. Maybe he makes that catch if it's a night game. But as impressive as that play would have been,

it's one that Manninger should have made since it did hit his glove. I think it was Jurekson Profar who hit it. I could be misremembering. But whoever hit the ball, he wound up at second base. And that's the kind of break that can ignite an offense to lead to a big inning. That's exactly what happened. Mosevic did not record an out before being removed in favor of J.T. Chagua. I sure hope I'm pronouncing that right.

I stopped watching the game at that point. I was watching it late off the DVR. And I knew what the final score was already. I couldn't take it anymore. The Mariners had run into more bad luck earlier in the ballgame, as a matter of fact. Eric Hosmer made two great. great play is on balls that were smoked down the first base line. Both of them could have been hit.

Both of them maybe should have been hits. And both plays prevented runs from scoring. One of the runs later did wind up scoring anyway on Justin Dunn's double, no less. But with the second play, Manninger was on second base. I don't remember who was hitting. But if that ball snuck through, Manninger has a good chance to score. And if he did, it would have given the Mariners a one-run lead. And that could have changed the complexion.

of the entire ballgame. But Hosmer did what he had to do to help his team. In those cases, you just have to tip your hat and move on. It's still frustrating, though. Not only are the Marriers horrible, but they're not getting the brakes either. One thing I want to note before moving on to the email plug in the next segment, Jose Godoy got his first big league start yesterday,

and my goodness, he looks way better defensively than Luis Torrens does. Even though he catches on one knee. with runners on base, he is far more mobile and way more spry than Torrance has ever been behind the plate, or as I have seen Torrens. Godoy is a much better defensive catcher than Torrenz is, and even if Godoy hits 180, that's about what Torrance was hitting anyway. And also, the Mariners are touting that Jose Godoy was the 20,000th Major League Baseball player according to baseball reference.

So there is a trivia item for you. In addition, I saw part of an interview with Godoy. I think Angie Mentig might have been giving an interview or Jen Mueller. Anyways, they played part of it, you know, in the pregame show earlier in the week. It might have been Saturday. I don't remember. But you had to just be so happy for Mr. Godoy after being in the Cardo's minor league system for nearly a decade and then finally breaking through to the show, you know, this year,

this weekend with the Seattle Mariners. you know, he revealed, yeah, he cried when he got the call. He called his wife. He thought he was just being called up to the taxi squad. So he called his wife. He said, hey, I'm on the Mariners Taxi Squad. And then he found out, no, you're going to the Seattle Mariners. Called his wife back and very excited for him.

And then he called his mom and dad, and they were crying. I didn't see the whole interview. I saw that portion of it. But you just had to be so happy for Mr. Godoy. by finally making it to the show, and all that hard work in nearly a decade's worth of minor league baseball, finally paying off. If you have a question or a comment you would like addressed on the air,

please send it to locked on mariners at gmail.com, and I will, in fact, address it on the air in a future mailbag segment. Questions and comments on any subject at all are welcome and highly, highly encouraged. It doesn't need to be about the Mariners. It doesn't even need to be about baseball. It doesn't need to be about sports. Coming up, prior to speaking,

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Welcome back to Lockdown Mariners. Here once again is your host, D.C. Lundberg. Thank you once again, J.M. I stated on last Friday's program that I would save the curling talk for C. Block. And it is C Block, but I have not yet had a chance to watch either of the medal games from the World Mixed Curling Championships. So I will congratulate the winners and the silver medalists and the bronze medalists on Wednesday's program. We're going to have a guest host tomorrow. The Mariners do begin a three-game series in Oakland tonight.

yesterday afternoon I spoke with Jason Burke of Locked-on A's about the upcoming series, and over the course of the next few shows, I'll present portions of that conversation. In this first part, which was actually one of the last things we talked about, we discussed the pitchers that the Mariners will be facing. I'll ask some questions of you then, kind of going into the Oakland series, although by the time this portion of the conversation is published, two of the games may have been played already.

I don't know how this is going to work. And those first two blowouts by the A's really got their run differential in order. That was fun. Oh, that 30 to nothing shutout was just horrible, wasn't it? How does it feel like we have a perfect game thrown against you 30 to nothing? Well, the worst part was that the ninth inning of that perfecto was pitched by an infielder, which made us really look silly. Oh, man, it was, thank you for not swinging on any three O pitches.

That was really helpful. It helped him get back in the count. Anyways, let's talk about Frankie Montas a little bit. He is starting Monday's game against Yusei Kikichi. What can we expect to see from Montas in terms of arsenal location? What kind of pitcher is he? What can the Mariners fans expect to see from him? He changes every single day.

Sometimes he's really good at locating. His last start, he was good at locating. He got a little bit two in the zone and got beat up a little bit in the first, but he ended up going five or six. and giving up a couple of runs. Sometimes he gives up that big blow-up start, but usually it's, you know, he goes off the fastball. The splitter, if the splitter is working and hitters are chasing that,

he's going to have a great, great day. He doesn't throw it that often, but, you know, maybe like 12, 13 times a game, but if Mariners hitters, which it seems like they might, are chasing that splitter, it's going to be a long day for the Mariners, you know, fan base. also the hitters on the field. It kind of depends, because there are hitters that will not swing at pitches out of the zone like that. I mean, Kelnick seems to be one of them based on what I have seen and going off my memory. I have no short-term memory, by the way, ladies and gentlemen, so I may be wrong.

But swinging it pitches down out of the zone, the Mariners are actually somewhat decent at that if it's way out of the zone. If it's close, then obviously anybody's going to chase. But if that splitter might be dropping a little bit too much, then the Mariners, I think, might be able to lay off of it. In the second game, I don't recall who's pitching the second game against Logan Gilbert. Cole Irvin. That's right. Tell us a little bit about Cole Irvin, if you would, please, sir.

He is basically fastball changeup, sinker, you know, a regular arsenal. He throws a curveball every now and then. He's mostly a changing speeds kind of guy, keeping you off of what he's throwing. He hits his spots. His last start, basically against the Astros, he has not been good. He has like an almost an 8-ERA. I think it's like a 790. 7.8, something like that.

But against every other team in baseball, in his other six starts, he has like a 184 ERA right now. So outside of the Astros, he's really, really good. He hits his spots. Location is his game. And you were saying that that might cause trouble

for the Mariners hitters. And if he's keeping them off balance, he could potentially do it. He's good at being economical. He can strike some guys out if you want them to, but basically his change-up is usually, his put-away pitch, but sometimes he switches it up. If he's facing a team like the second time through the order or the second time in a week

or two, that'll become the fastball. They'll be looking for change-up. He'll throw him a fastball. He's a pitcher. He pitches. He doesn't have great, quote-unquote, stuff like a lot of the guys in baseball right now, but he will outthink the hell out of you. And that's why he's been successful this year.

Sounds like kind of a, sounds like a Marco Gonzalez-type pitcher. Kind of, yeah. Yeah, and those are the kind of pitchers that the mirrors really have trouble with, pitchers who locate more than anything else. They're good at hitting mistakes. I shouldn't say they're good at hitting mistakes. But generally, when they jump on pitches, they're in the middle of the zone and the pitcher has missed his location or something to that effect.

So it sounds like the Mariners may have a rough time against Irvin. And on Wednesday, it is going to be whom? James Caprillion. Ooh, not a name I am familiar with. I believe that's his first home start for the A's. He's made two starts so far. He just got called up from AAA. He made a couple of appearances out of the bullpen last year.

But this year so far, he's had two starts, one in Boston against the best team in baseball in Boston, the best offense in baseball. And he shut them down over five innings. He got into some trouble in the first. He allowed one run and then just shut him down for the next four. He was fantastic. And then he faced the Angels on Friday in Anahun. him. He had another terrific outing. He went another five and two

thirds, I believe, gave up a couple of runs. He got the no decision because the bullpen gave it up for a second. The A's came back and won that one. One of the starts was in Fenway, which is hollowed ground for baseball lifers and whatnot. And then you got he grew up just 27 minutes south of Angel Stadium. So it was kind of a homecoming

game for him. So we'll see how he fares when he's pitching at the call team. It's basically, I mean, intrigued to see that he's been really good though. He can locate his fastball on the outer corner for a lefty. I want to see more of him. He's really been impressive. And he's one of the guys that came back in the sunny gray deal. So we've been kind of waiting on him to be healthy and be able to be this guy. And now it looks like he might be that guy. So he's been a lot of fun. And hopefully he can beat the mariner bullpen depending on who they're throwing.

Yeah, we shall see. Speaking of bullpens, what can we expect to see out of the A's bullpen? The good and the bad bullpen. Currently, I don't know who's in either one right now. Yeah, there were some weird decisions being made on Sunday's game. They ended up losing this one six to five, but they had Diolos Gera and Ramin Goudwan who are, Rameen Goudwan is in the bad bullpen where you're losing by like four or five runs.

You're like, yeah, Ramin, go get three outs or six outs or whatever. That's fine. But Gera has been kind of in between the two where he'd been kind of pushing for a good bullpen tenure. And the last couple of outings, he's gotten, he's gotten a chance to be in that good bullpen when the A's actually are like in the game. And he's giving up a run in each. And that's not good.

Sergio Romo had his first rough outing in a while. He had like six or seven pretty decent outings in a row and he got blown up a little bit in Sunday's game. But basically it's Trevino, Petit, and Deekman. Those are the three guys in the. the A's bullpen that you're like, if those three guys are coming to the game, the A's are trying to win that game. Anybody else, they're like, all right, well, let's see what happens, I guess.

Birch Smith is another one. He might give them, you know, a couple of innings here and there. But they did not use Lutrovino in Sunday's game, and he didn't pitch on Saturday, which was the reason why they weren't using Deekman or Petit. So I'm very confused as to what was going on on Sunday. Maybe he wasn't available, or maybe they were waiting until he could close the game in the ninth, assuming that they had the lead. but it made zero sense.

And also the A's brought up Cam Bedrosian, who the Angels traded to the Reds. The Reds DFA'd him because he had like four bad innings where he couldn't locate. And then the A's brought him over to Vegas. And he's like, hey, I don't want guys anymore. They're like, okay, you can come up to Oakland now. And then they didn't use them all weekend.

And I'm very confused. So lots of weird things going on in the A's bullpen. But I mean, usually if they have a lead, they can kind of hold it. But I don't know if that's being, if that's like cemented right now or if that's just being held loosely with some duct tape. So the longer the A starters go, the better right now.

I think the thing could be said for just about every team that there is. The Mariners are no exception to that. The Mariners' starters, the starters that they have in the rotation right now, don't give you a whole lot of length. You say Kikichi does. He'll generally go seven innings, and he'll be able to cover some innings for you. But yesterday, Justin Dunn went to five,

had four very good innings, fell apart in the fifth, even though he didn't give up a run, but he threw 168 pitches or something like that, and he couldn't go into the sixth inning. Also had his first major league hit and double to the warning track, by the way. Very impressive. Yes, indeed.

And Justice Sheffield got a hit. And both hits were the other way. Those are the two Mariners that are buying into Scott Services philosophy, and they're on the pitching staff. I saw that when I was looking up the hitter stats. I was like, wow, you guys got some, like, decent hitters that are outpacing your actual hitters. And I'll just say this also. I'll probably mention this on the show on Sunday.

And I don't know what day this portion of the conversation is going to be broadcast. I am not one of those in favor of the universal DH. And I don't think these pictures, you know, hitting like that for me is I just lost my train of thought. And also the Barrettors do have a DH and so do the Rangers. And they've both been no hit twice. and the Indians. So, I mean, that's basically the argument right now, I would say. Okay.

Thank you for finishing. I'll just say that that was my thought, even though I know I wasn't going there. I don't remember where I was going, ladies and gentlemen. We will have part two of that conversation tomorrow, and as I alluded to earlier, there will be a guest host tomorrow. And here is why. I do have a little announcement to make. In addition to the end's beginning that three-game series in Oakland this evening,

something very important is happening for me. I've decided to go back to school. I enrolled in an adult education program at Whitworth University here in Spokane. Tonight is my first class, and I didn't want to have to think about doing a show after that first class. I've never been a good student, and it's been years since I've been in a classroom. So Taylor Blake Ward is going to be filling in for me, and he will present tomorrow morning's show. Please remember to download, rate, and follow Locked-on Mariners. Look for us in any podcasting app that you can think of.

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