Locked On Mariners - Daily Podcast On the Seattle Mariners - No More Nola

Episode Date: August 31, 2020

Austin Nola, Dan Altavilla, and Austin Adams are all now members of the San Diego Padres. This news broke while D.C. was recording. (Hence why it's the second half of the show and not the first half.) D.C. talks about all seven players involved, the three mentioned above, and the four the M's got in return: Ty France, Andres Muñoz, Luis Torrens, and Taylor Trammell. It was also an... interesting weekend in Anaheim. D.C. discusses the weekend games, including Saturday's unmitigated disaster. 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.

Ladies and gentlemen, the big news of the day obviously was the Austin Nola trade, which wasn't reported until I was taking a break in between recording the first and second halves of this program. I will talk about the trade in B Block, and I will also take this time to wish Austin Nola, Dan Altavilla, and Austin Adams, the very best of luck in the Padres organization. Thank you for tuning in to Locked On Mariners, part of the Locked On podcast network, your team, day. Here's your host, D.C. Lundberg. Bad news, folks. Weekend is over. Sorry to report that, but I think you knew that anyway. In any case, that does mean we're up for another week here on Locked-on Mariners, which of course is part of the Locked-on podcast network, brought to you today by Built Bar.

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Boy, I sure hope I have enough theme song to cover all of that. I'm pretty sure I do. Well, it was an interesting weekend of Mariners baseball. Not exactly a successful one. The Mariners were in Los Angeles to face the Angels. If by Los Angeles, you actually mean Anaheim. The difference between Los Angeles and Anaheim is kind of like the difference between Seattle and Everett.

That would be like having a professional team based in Everett, called the Seattle Whatever's. So they're the Anaheimane. They are the Los Angeles Angels, but I like the California Angels. I'm rambling again. Second half of the program is going to be kind of some frivolous trivia, which I am a huge fan of, involving recently departed Mariner Taiwan Walker.

No, he hasn't passed away. He's just a Blue Jay now. He did very well in his first start as a Blue Jay. We're going to go over that. And we're going to go into some kind of trivia involving the uniform number that he has now. Very, very interesting. But first, let's talk about the weekend series in Anaheim, which is going to finish up tonight. First game was a 3-2 victory for the Angels over the Seattle Mariners. Nick Margievich's was a starting pitcher for the Mariners. Did pretty

well, six innings. Seven hits, two runs, both of them, earned two walks, five strikeouts. That's a decent line. Pretty decent line. Yohan Ramirez came in, and this was a typical Johann Ramirez's appearance. One inning, two strikeouts, two walks. That's basically what you're going to get from him. Brady Lyle then cleaned up with the final inning, allowing a hit and earned run. He struck out the side, however, and that lone hit and earned run were one and the same. It was indeed a solo home run by guess who? Mike Trout. Surprise, surprise. Mariners only score two runs in this ballgame. Offense couldn't really get it going. They only had six hits. Crawford, Telegram, Sam Hagridi, the Kyle Connection both had a hit, as in Jose

Marnar Malajos and Tim Lopes. Jose Mora Malajos is playing at first base. Ah, that doesn't work. He's playing first base in Evan White's instead. He's still recovering from that shoulder. Actually, did play yesterday. The second game is one that, well, it wasn't very successful. Let's put it that way. Here's how unsuccessful it was. Tim Lopes pitched the eighth inning. Tim Lopes is not a pitcher. Just as Sheffield started, four and two-thirds innings, four hits, six runs, all earned,

four walks, six strikeouts. Just not very good. The Mariners, as I have said, all season, have been prone to giving up the big inning. They gave up three of them in this game, the fifth inning in which the angels scored three, and the sixth and seventh innings in which the angels scored four apiece.

The final here was 16 to three. And it was a disaster. Angel scored 16 runs. They only had 13 hits. The Mariners walked 11. They walked 11 batters. Justice Sheffield, four walks. Aaron Fletcher, two thirds of an inning, two walks.

Zach Groetz, who was just a disaster. One in a third innings, four walks. And then Tim Lopes, only one walk. That's pretty bad when Tim Lopes pitches a third of an inning more than you and gives up fewer walks. That's the case with Aaron Fletcher. Zach Grotes recently back up from the alternate training site.

He was up. He was down. He was up. He was back down. He was sent back out after this game. His ERA for the season is 14.73. I don't know what else to say about this game, so I'm just going to stop. Every position player got into the game for the Mariners, except for Evan White, who was still nursing that sore shoulder. J. P. Crawford did go two for three in the game, however, and D. Gordon, Braden Bishop, Jose Marmaléjos, Tim Lopes,

and Shedlong Jr. also checked in with hits. Lopes had started the game, by the way, as the designated hitter. And then, as I said, pitched the bottom of the eighth inning. Gave up two runs. It was thrown a lot of Ephus pitches, apparently. Which, you know, if you're an infielder pitching, I guess he got to do something. Mariners played an extra inning game on Sunday at the Big A in Anaheim.

it was a 2-1 victory. The scoring didn't begin until the seventh inning when Kyle Lewis broke the scoreless tie with a solo home run. The Angels countered in the bottom of the seventh inning on an RBI single by Andrelton Simmons. Albert Pujols scored on the play. And that one-to-one tie would remain through regulation.

And remember, gang, each extra inning starts with a runner on second base now. Oh my, I hope that's a game. a temporary rule. In any case, the Mariners started the top of the 10th inning with Kyle Lewis. At second base, Kyle Seeger led off and struck out swinging. Jose Mara

Malajos was then pinch hit for by Tim Lopes, and he hit an RBI single to score Kyle Lewis. And that was the end of the scoring. Mariner's get a cheap win, all thanks to the extra innings runner rule. Boo!

So the Mariners get a cheap win out of it. But let's give some credit or credit is due, and that is to Justin Dunn, who has now thrown 12 consecutive scoreless innings. He goes six innings in this particular ballgame, only one hit and six strikeouts, but four walks. He does have to watch out for that, as do all pitchers, quite honestly. He's lucky that, you know, none of those walks came around to score.

Didn't give up any runs, like I said, only the one hit. You put that many runners on base. Sooner or later, you're going to get burned. it's a good thing he didn't because like I said, it was a tie after regulation. If one of those walks scores, this is an angel's victory rather than an extra inning Mariners win. Mariners will try to tie up this four-game series this afternoon in Anaheim. Marco Gonzalez will tow the rubber, so to speak, for the Mariners, against Jaime Barria, the Angels. Second half of the program, like I said, some frivolous trivia, somewhat involving recent

acquired Blue Jay Taiwan Walker, which is kind of not an English sentence, but hey, I'm going to go with it, since I've already had to do so many takes and I'm tired of recording. But he has, he couldn't have number 99 with the Blue Jays, since Hunjin Ryu already wore 99, will tell you what number he has

and give you some trivia based off of that. And yes, that is the entire second half of today's program. But it is interesting. Mariners' trivia question for the day, ladies and gentlemen, is the following. since the Mariners did walk 11 hitters on Saturday, today's question is what is the most walks a single pitcher has given up in a game for the Seattle Mariners?

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pitcher has given up for the Seattle Mariners. Well, it occurred on June 18th, 1977. The team's very first season, and it was Rick Jones, who allowed 11 walks to the Texas Rangers in Arlington in nine and a third innings pitched. Wait a minute, that means the game went extra innings, With the Mariners pitcher giving up 11 walks? Yeah, it did. Believe it or not, this was a 6 to 1 victory. It was tied 1-1 after the Regulation 9 innings, and the Mariners scored 5 in the top of the 10th inning,

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Once again, your host, D.C. Lundberg. Thank you very much, Joey Martin. Welcome back to Locked On Mariners, which is a very different second half than what I originally thought I was going to do. I was going to talk about Taiwan Walker. Tell you how he was doing it in Toronto. Tell you about his uniform number. I'm going to hold all that off until tomorrow because there is some late breaking news here on Sunday night, August 30th,

2020, Year of Our Lord. As I am recording this, it is currently 8.18 p.m. And within the last half hour, it's been reported that the Mariners have made a trade and a pretty large one. at that with the San Diego Padres who are really making a push at a playoff run this year. This was their 71st trade of the day. Earlier in the day, they had acquired Mitch Morland from the Red Sox, Trevor Rosenthal from the Royals, and catcher Jason Castro from the Angels. This is the second deal the Padres have made today yesterday as you're listening to

this involving a catcher. The trade will reportedly send Austin Nola, Dan Altavilla, and Austin Adams to the Padres, and in return, the Mariners are going to get in-fieler Thai France, right-handed pitcher Andres Munoz, catcher Luis Torrens, and outfielder Taylor Trammell, who is the 60th ranked prospect in Major League or Minor League Baseball, pardon me, at this time. Why the Mariners felt the need to acquire another outfield prospect, I have no idea, but, you know, maybe one of the other outfield prospects, or this one, might, be on the move over the off season. The trading deadline is today. It's usually July 31st.

Obviously, with the weirdness of this alternate universe season we're experiencing right now, they could not have done a July 31st trade deadline. So it's August 31st, which is today as you're listening to this. Again, to recap, the Padres have acquired catcher Austin Nola, pitcher Dan Altavilla, and pitcher Austin Adams from the Seattle Mariners for Thai France, Andres Munoz, Luis Torrenz, and Taylor Trammel. Let's go. over some of the players that the Mariners have acquired. I have heard of exactly one of them. I have heard.

I have heard of Taylor Trammell, everybody even remotely associated with baseball has, as he is such a highly ranked prospect. Trammell was originally drafted by the Cincinnati Reds in the first round, 35th pick overall, so it's the comp round basically, in 2016 out of high school. He debuted in 2016 with the Billings, Mustangs of the Pioneer League. He's got an overall minor league slash line of 270,

363-406. Those are pretty good numbers. Last season was split between the Cincinnati Reds and San Diego Padres organizations at the AA level. Both stops he was at the AA level where he slashed 234,

340, 349. Even though his on, pardon me, batting average is low, that's a monster on base percentage. considering that batting average. It's over 100 points over his batting average, and the slugging is there too. In 436 hit bats, 12 doubles and 10 home runs.

He's got some pop in his bat. He has played mostly left field in the minors. A lot of center field as well, not much right field. So we'll see where he winds up in terms of the Mariners system. Again, not the greatest of years last year, but he is 22 years old. He's 22 years old. He will turn 23.

on September 13th. Thai France has some major league experience. He actually has, you know, a fair amount of major league experience. Coming into August 30th, he has played 88 games at the big league level, spread out over two seasons in San Diego, slash line of 251, 311, 426. He is a third baseman by trade, it looks like. Can play some second base and some first base.

In 76 games at AAA last year, pardon me, 399 batting average 477 on base and 770 slugging 27 home runs 27 doubles in 296 at bats those are just monster numbers career minor league slash line of

294 389 and 470 in 19 games with the Padres this season he is slashing 314 375 510 and in 88 big league games total 257 plate appearances he's slashing 251, 311, 426.

It's got some punch in as bad it looks like. He is indeed a corner infielder by trade, mostly DH'd for the Padres this season. They acquired Mitch Morland from the Red Sox to do that. He is 5 foot 11, 215 pounds. Mostly a corner infielder, like I said, can play some second base for you as well, and has hit at pretty much every minor league level

in which he has been. Let's hope that continues at the Major League level here with the Mariners. He was a 34th round draft pick by the Padres in 2015 out of San Diego State University and has just put up very good offensive numbers pretty much everywhere he has been. So let's see how this works out. He is 26 years old. He turned 26 on July 13th. Luis Torrens is a catcher who has spent parts of three seasons to the big leagues all with the Padres, 2017, 2019, and seven games this year. 56 games at the big league level in 2017.

And as I said, seven this year and seven last year. Not much of an offensive threat, although he had a 273 batting average in 11 at bats this year. I know that's not really all that much to go on. Minor league slash line 272, 343-404. He's 24 years old, born May 2nd, 1996 in Valencia, Venezuela. He is six foot tall, 208 pounds. And, you know, with the Mariners trading Austin Nola and with Tom Murphy being out for probably the rest of the season,

the Mariners catching situation is now not very good. Joe Odom and Joe Hudson are not major league starting catchers, let's face it. I don't know where Torrens fits in with all this. He might be the starter. He's got the most major league experience now among the catchers. So we will see what happens. The final player acquired by the Mariners was right-handed pitcher Andres Munoz, who pitched 22 games at the big league level last season with the Padres.

They were all relief appearances, and he is 21 years old. He'll turn 22 on January 16th, so he shares a birthday with a couple of my very good friends, Jeremy and Lewis, I hope you're listening to the show. Last year in those 22 games, he had a 391 ERA, 1.174 whip. 4.3 walks per 9 innings, that's not a great number. 11.7 strikeouts per 9. Let's see what he's done in the minor leagues. His first minor league season came at the age of 17 in 2016,

and overall in the minors 1.264 whip, not good. 5.5 walks per 9 innings, really not good. 12.7 strikeouts per 9 innings in a 314 ERA. So this looks like another one of those. I don't know what his arsenal is. I don't know what his repertoire is. But this guy looks like another one of those power arms that the Mariners like to fill their bullpen with.

So we'll see how this works out. In addition, gang, he is out for the rest of the season. Having had Tommy John's surgery last March, he is done until 2021. Again, Austin Nola, Dan Altavilla, and Austin Adams going to the Padres in return for infielder Thai France, pitcher Andres Munoz, catcher Luis Torrens, and outfielder Taylor Trammell.

This year for the Mariners, Nola had slashed 306-373, 531 after being pressed into everyday duty because of the injury for Murphy, and absolutely came up aces. And he was in the middle of a hot streak, ladies and gentlemen. Even though he did not play in yesterday's game versus the Angels, his last game as a mariner appears to have been Saturday. You know, unless this deal falls through overnight, in which case this episode's going to sound really silly. But we'll see. That's probably not going to happen.

Austinola, 30 years old, six feet tall, 195 pounds. First year in the Mariners organization was last year. His first big league action was last year as well, after spending the majority of his career in the Marlins chain, drafted as a shortstop, came up as a shortstop, didn't start catching until 2017. You know, sorry to see him go. Sorry to see him go. but, you know, the Mariners are out of it. The Padres needed catching help, obviously.

They acquired two of them yesterday. So in that regard, the deal does make sense. Dan Altavilla is somebody who I kind of felt like this probably was his last chance. As a Seattle Mariner, he did very badly last year in 17 games. 552 ERA in a whip of 1.432 and just a ton of walks. This year was even worse. 771 ERA and 13 innings, 11 and 2 thirds innings pitched, whip of 1.629, 9.3 hits per nine innings,

5.4 walks per nine innings. The walks per nine actually went down, but he's been hit a little harder, and he's given up three home runs in those 11 and two thirds, 11 and two thirds innings. Gosh, you know, Altaville is frustrating because, like I've said before, he's got good stuff. He had a tendency to overthrow, much like Bobby Ayala did,

and the results were much the same. A lot of walks, a lot of hits, and a lot of strikeouts, too, because, you know, Altavilla's got that good put-away slider. Ayala had the slider and forkball. The difference between him is Dan Altavilla is a lot more likable than Bobby Ayala was. And Dan Altavilla did have a goatee as did Bobby Ayala. In any case, good luck to Altavila. hope the change in scenery does him well, and I hope he has success in the Padres organization.

Austin Adams was the third player as part of this deal, and he did not pitch for the Mariners this season. I believe he's on the injured list, but I could be wrong about that. He pitched in 29 games for the Mariners last season, 337 ERA, whip of under 1.1, 1.097. A few too many walks, a lot of strikeouts. Strikeout to walk ratio of 3.64. That's That's pretty good. He had a successful 29 games with the Mariners last season, and he's not a prospect. He is 29 years old. So obviously we wish Austin Adams, Austin Nola, Dan Altavilla, the best of luck in the Padres organization.

Thank you for your time with the Mariners gentlemen. And again, we do wish you the best. Tomorrow's episode, again, we're going to talk about this final game that the Angels are going to play against the Mariners in Anaheim, starting at 110 p.m. Pacific Standard Time. today. And in the second half of the show, going to update you on Taiwan Walker, get to that trivia that we talked about earlier since the second half of today's show kind of rewrote itself as I was getting ready to record the commercial breaks and whatnot because of the trade that

took place after I had started recording and after I had played in any case, do join us tomorrow when we will be joined by guest panelists, Deputy Sheriff Barney Fife, Fogghorn, Leghorn, And an alarm clock we stole from a Best Western Plus. That's going to be a great episode. So please remember to download a rate and subscribe with this program. So you never miss an episode. Apple Podcast, Google Podcast, Spotify, Stitcher Radio, whichever podcasting app pops into your brainhead.

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