Locked On Mariners - Daily Podcast On the Seattle Mariners - Non-Tendered Players the Seattle Mariners SHOULD Have Interest In | Mailbag Monday

Episode Date: November 24, 2025

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The deadline to tender contracts to arbitration-eligible players has passed, which means there are quite a few new free agents out on the market. We'll tell you which of them should be of interest to the Mariners coming up. Colby, hit it. You are Locked-on Mariners. Your daily Seattle Mariners podcast. Part of the Locked-on Podcast Network, your team, every day. Ahoy, Sailors, it is Monday, November 24th, 2020.

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Jeff is going to kick us off here on Mailbag Monday wanting to know which non-tendered player makes the most sense for the roster. Oh, oh, buddy. Oh, buddy. You've made the mistake of asking us to condense such a broad question down to one singular player. Brevity is not our strong suit. So we're going to name a bunch of players. Colby, go. Name some guys.

Go, go, go, go. Adoles Garcia. That's what you all want us to say, right? I assume most of you want us to say Adola Garcia. I don't know. You know what's interesting about, you know, the list here, very little of interest from the National League. Pretty much everybody that is like interesting to give a major league contract to is on the American League side. So, you know, there's always relievers, which is kind of, you know, a valuable asset for the Mariners and the Yankees dumped a couple of them that are pretty interesting.

I said, Mark Leiter, I know he didn't have a very good year, but he, you can kind of coincide his struggles directly to him going to New York. He was pretty darn good before that. Scott, or not Scott, sorry, Jake Cousins, there you go. Is that Kirk Cousins cousin? Yeah, he's Kirk Cousins. Cousin. He is, he's coming off of an injured year, so he might be an interesting ad as well.

Also, Ian Hamilton, WSU alum, he had a pretty good year, a couple years back. He got non-tendered. So there's always bullpen arms like that. Also, Taylor Clark is a really interesting one from the Royals. He had a nice year, and he's only going to make about $2 million in ARB. So it was kind of a surprise that they non-tendered him. That dude needs to never throw his forcing fastball ever again, though. I believe the expected slugging on that pitch last year was $750.

So, yeah, and it was the second most thrown pitch. So sinker, slider. I'm pretty sure, yeah. You can double check me on that. Maybe I misread it, but. That's stinky. Yeah. So there are always bullpen arms like that.

Jacob Webb is kind of a meme. Yeah, yeah. Pretty good. He's still pretty good. And he's now available. So plenty of bullpen arms out there. There are some names like Chris Morel is pretty interesting. Obviously, Adolesk,

as well. But I think I don't want to say the big one, but like I think the one that kind of makes the most sense for the Mariners based on where their roster is at right now is probably Andy Abanias. Yeah, agreed.

Yeah. So. Yeah. The Mariners need a better option against the left-handed pitching off of their bench. Now, Abagnas wasn't particularly great against lefties this year. It's a 99 WRC plus. But in the past, he has mashed lefties and last year you know we're 2025 i've kind of already put it behind us now

so i kind of view it as last year but uh you know this this past season mitch garber was your primary option off the bench to face lefties and that was just not viable frankly so um yeah abanya is a guy that stands out to me the most uh as well as rome nereus who obviously a pretty good defender can play multiple spots in the infield the mares have had interest in him in the past uh so maybe that's a guy that they kick the tires on as well uh and then yeah there's just so many relief arms you know you never know what profile really like stands out to the mares uh the most here like who they like and who they think they might have a tweak for so it could literally be any of these guys or none of them right i do like jacob web and uh taylor clark quite a bit but uh yeah

Ian Hamilton's got some really interesting qualities to him. But, yeah, Bonia is the guy. He can play second. He can play third. He's actually not that bad of a defender. No, his arms sucks, but he's actually like a, like he actually has a really good range. So, yeah, you know, and with your questions right now being at second and third, you're going to give those shots as things sit right now to some rookies to see young players. It would be nice to have that safety blanket there, just a guy like, look.

You know, we can at least manage and have this guy fill in three, four times a week, and we can kind of survive until we get to July, and we can kind of add, hopefully, you can add in July. So I think a player like Urius, like Ibanes makes a lot of sense for the roster as it sits right now. Maybe in a couple weeks, they don't make any sense at all. And we're talking about Adolas Garcia, who would be a fun ad. And he and Randy are really good friends, and so is he and Julio. So there is actually some reason why Adolus might pick you. And it does feel like Adolus does have one year of magic left.

But he's been bad recently. And then obviously John Hines. Yeah. And then Johnaheim is interesting just because you need a backup catcher. Especially if you trade Harry Ford, well, you trade Harry Ford, which is probably the top 100 prospect most likely to be traded this winter. Then that's going to make a lot of sense. Now, the thing with Hime, though, is he going to want to sign? here knowing he's the full-time backup like no shot to start probably not there might be a

difficult whereas there might there might be like a team out there like the the pirates or the whoever that's just an example that might be willing to give him a shot to start yeah hymns young enough that if he has a good year in 2026 he can go out there and presumably get three or four years at 10 million bucks a year and really set himself up nice so we'll see but yeah to me it's it's the right-handed hitting infielders and it's the bullpen arms that are the most interesting Yeah, I mean, like if you don't want to expose Cole Young to too many lefties, and I think Andy O'Banias would be a great platoon partner for him. You know, a couple of other names that I just want to throw out there. They don't really make sense for the roster right now, but Mike Talkman, he got non-tendered by the White Sox, you know, lefty corner outfielder, which right now, you know, there's the Dom Kanzu and Luke Rayleigh thing.

So that doesn't really work. And then JJ Bladay is a guy that both you and I have liked for a while. Coles, he got not tendered by the A's, so, but again, left-handed hitting outfielder, so throw Jake Frey into that list, too. Like, he's a really solid fourth outfielder, but you just have so many left-handed hitting or left-handed hitting corner outfielders that it's kind of tough to snag another one and justify it on the roster build. You trade Luke Rayleigh, you trade Domkan's own, maybe, maybe.

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Senga is younger and with the pitching lab, they could possibly fix him. At worst, he could be a fifth starter and Mets get a more reliable pitcher with experience to help their young arms. Well, Colby, this is an idea that you texted me about. I think you also tweeted about it, right? So you're on this train of trading Castio for Senga. So what do you like that idea? I mean, I like it as a thought experiment. man, I don't think that it's terribly likely or realistic for it to happen.

But I like it for, you know, the reasons that we're mentioned there is that the Mets need some stability in their rotation. Senga has not been the same guy since his rookie year, and he's dealt with a big injury in there. And the walks have kind of been a problem. He's missing fewer bats, but we know that the stuff is really good. And we also know that he's making about $10 million less over there. the same two years, uh, as Castillo. And so it's one of those shots you take. If Castillo's the number five, well, I think you want upside in your number five spot more so than you want safety. Uh, so, you know, the risk is for the Mariners is that they trade their healthiest pitcher,

believe it or not, uh, for a guy who like all the other four starters in the rotation has missed significant time over the last two years, uh, but they get arguably one of the best pitches in baseball the ghost fork and they add some swing and miss to their rotation which is desperately needed you guys watch that blue jays series now granted it's really hard to strike out the blue jays for anybody but like yeah i mean even blake snell had issues striking out the blue jays so right so again it's probably more about that but you need some more swing and miss in this in this pitching staff you really do because honestly you don't really have the defense to support a contact heavy pitching staff uh so yeah i i think it makes some sense like on paper

but there are a myriad of reasons why this wouldn't happen. You know, like, for example, the, the Mets are kind of in this weird spot that, like we saw yesterday, where they're kind of shedding some of their bigger contracts and they're kind of trying to, you know, clear up future money. So maybe that's not a big, as big of a deal because both of these guys only have two years left. But I don't think they're going to be willing to take on $10 million extra. I think if they trade Senga, they would be trying to move the contract, is.

it would be their primary goal there. So I don't really know if that makes sense. But yeah, just like on paper as a thought experiment, it's a fun one because the Mets do need some stability. They do need just quality bulk innings out of their rotation, especially if they're going to run with as many young arms as they are currently slated to do. And Senga is a guy who, you know, the star has fallen a little bit. He needs to be polished back up again.

And there's a health concern there. And obviously, we know the whole thing with the forkball. the splitter is that it can be rough on the elbow. At least that's kind of the popular narrative right now. I don't know if it's backed up by science or not. But, yeah, I think it does make some sense on paper, and that's why I like it as a thought experiment. I think ultimately there are just too many, you know,

obstacles you have to overcome to actually get something like this cross the finish line. But yeah, I think this would be a fun, you know, we talk about how do you dump Castillo? And it's like, well, probably can't. Maybe you do a payroll swap, like, you know, Robbie Ray for Mitch Hanigar. And this would kind of be that.

You'd save about the same amount of money in the short term. And, you know, the only difference is that your club control is the same here. So it really is an interesting idea. But I just think there's too many obstacles to actually get it done. The heat miser wants to know when you say that a starting pitcher is a number one, number two, what is your criteria for that? As a number one, a top 30 pitcher, and number two, a top 60, et cetera. Is it based on some ranking criteria? or is it just based on vibes just curious so colby and i kind of have our own definition of like

what's an ace like what's a true ace who's the number one what constitutes the number two so we say that i know that sometimes confuses people so um for me what a what a true ace is is is a guy that you absolutely are worried about like in a playoff series for example like Terrick Scoobel, right? You are game planning around that guy specifically. Whether it's Scoobel, whether it's Paul Skeens, Gerard Crochet. Maybe you want to throw Yamamoto or Christopher Sanchez in there as well. But really, it's skein's scubel and crochet.

Like to me, those are like the three and Zach Wheeler when he's healthy. Those are like the four guys that like I'm planning around them. Aces are so good that they impact games. they're not even pitching in yeah exactly whereas like i don't view hunter brown cole ragan's those guys in the same light but those guys are still number ones they're ones yeah yeah so i hope that makes sense and then you know you just kind of go down the list there isn't really like a specific cutoff point for like you know a one and a two like oh the ones are like the top 20 guys and then the twos are you know 21 through 40 and all it's not really like that it's just

No, because if that were true, then there would be 30 number ones in baseball, and there isn't. Like, I know technically there is, but there isn't. You know, like you said, there's four or five aces. There's probably, I don't know, 10 number ones. Number twos, there's probably only like 20 or 30 of them. So, yeah, there's a ton of, to me, like, you start with the number five and you work your way up. The number five is a guy that I'm hoping goes five innings and gives up four or less. Like, that's really what I'm hoping.

So, you know, there's plenty of number five. Number four is just a little bit better than that. And it's just kind of a vibe. You know, it really is just kind of like, hey, how do I feel about this guy, you know, pitching against, you know, other pitchers that are simply like, when scoobles on the mound, it doesn't matter who you're throwing. You don't have a good shot to win that game unless you're the 2025 Mariners, apparently. So, yeah, like, it just doesn't matter. Whereas, like, Logan Gilbert. is probably going to outdo most other pitchers in this league.

But if he's going up against Garrett Cole, like he's probably going to make a mistake or two and probably not going to get away with it. And that mistake or two could end your game. Like, ACEs are so good that if your pitcher, if your pitcher makes a mistake, the game could be over right there. Like so it really, again, ACEs are a unique brand. Number ones are less than that. I would say Christopher Sanchez is the number one. Number ones get like Sy Young votes. Number two.

Christopher Sanchez is really good. Yeah, I think do it again and then we'll talk. But like I like number two's get Cy Young votes. Number threes, might get a 10th place vote every once in a while. Fours are just like two and a half win pitchers, I think. And fives are kind of just, yeah. They're high four or mid four, ERA type of guys so like it's not really statistical there's and sometimes when we talk about like

this guy's number three or whatever we're talking more about stuff and like command and control than actual data so yeah yeah it's a bit of a you know um it's a bit of when when we assign pitchers you know they're they're an ace there are one there two it's not uh scientific at least not for us just like quickly going down the list here like so again I would say the aces are scoble skeins crochet like those type of dudes the ones are like the logan webs and and the max freeds and the hunter browns of the cole regans of the world then the number twos i would say are like freddy pralta and then there's like you know the low end twos like high in threes that are like joe ryan joe ryan ranger swarez yeah framber framber i think i'd put in that range uh as well yep um kirby nick pavetta usually this year, Povetta was more like a low end one to a two, but, uh, but typically like I put Paveta in there. Yeah, uh, Avaldi, Valdi is, is a one of all the, this year was an ace, but availability, a bit of a problem there. So, yeah, so, yeah, uh, so yeah. So, yeah, so

hopefully that clears that up, because I know some people do get confused when we, when we use that terminology. And that's just that's just our personal, uh, definitions of what those are that's not based on anything that's just us that's just how we feel about those guys and we have a colby and i have a pretty like similar definition of you know what aces are what the ones are yeah when tie and i are talking like he says that guy's a too i know exactly what type of pitcher he's talking about like yeah uh so it really is kind of a a beauty in the eye of the beholder type of thing but like to me like just to kind of go down the list here for the mariners just to put in those terms.

I would say Brian Wu is a two, high in two, maybe a one, on a certain day. I would say Logan Gilbert's after the year he just had, probably a

mid two with number one ceiling. George Kirby is a two or a three, somewhere in that range, depending on what the day is. I would say

Miller is probably a four overall, but he could be a number three. Castillo's a four I think is how I would maybe even a low in three for Castio because he's so dependable. Yeah, I'd say Cassio's

a low in three. And then like Miller to me has like the ceiling of A2 like we've seen it. But yeah He was a two for 2024, statistically speaking. Yeah, and he was and he was a two for a good

chunk of the postseason as well. Yeah, sure. Two, three. yeah yeah uh unfortunately during the regular season this year he was like a six or a seven yeah so like by the way just perfect example of this emerson hancock is a six he's not a five he's a six so like that's the which is to say minor league depth put him in the minors if you has to make some starts for you because of injuries fine whatever he might help you out of the bullpen at some point but like not a guy you want to even consider starting playoff games like aces ones and twos they're starting games one and two of the playoffs all right we've got a few

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It's called Control the Zone. And on there, we talk, Marish, Seahawks, all that good stuff. For more information, go to patreon.com forward slash control the zone link in the description of this episode. Matthew wants to know, what were your guys' thoughts on non-tendering Gregory Santos? It felt like that was going to be the case after your interview with Ryan DeVish. Yeah. Yeah, not surprised after talking to Debbish. I mean, the marriage just don't really have much of a tolerance for guys that they feel are just not really putting the work in.

We've seen it with Louisa Reyes, Kyle Lewis as a guy that they felt wasn't putting enough work in to get back. There's been many instances of this in the depoto era where they just, you know, if you're not putting it in the work, we're going to cut ties. We're going to move on. Jesse Winker. also kind of Gino Suarez after 2022. They were not thrilled about how he came into camp in 2023 and they were willing to move on as a result at the end of the year. Yeah, yeah, I think Divish said something about that after the trade happened.

So, yeah. So, yeah, it doesn't come as a surprise. Like if we had not talked to Divish about that and that had not been reported beforehand, then yeah, I would have been a little surprised. by that just because like what it's $20,000 more than the league minimum that he got or that he was going to get projected to get I think if we hadn't talked to divish and that news came out I would have been like they must be upset with him about like how he worked his way back

though I think I would have come to that conclusion because it's such a minimal increase right and we talked about this you know when they were setting up the the playoff in the taxi squad it's like Gregory Santos isn't even on the taxi squad. Yeah. Like so very clearly the Mariners were just done with that relationship. And, uh, yeah, it's not surprising. It just kind of follows up everything that they've, they've done in recent years.

If they think a guy's not putting in the work, they think he's, you know, maybe not a bad influence. Probably not the right word. But like, they're not going to put up, but they're going to move on from guys who they don't feel are, you know, committed and are putting in the work and all that. And, you know, that's not even talking about the guys that have been, you know, privately have been told, like, you got to step it up, man. You really have to do some work.

And we're not going to tell you who those players are. We don't know all the players. But we've heard some things about some guys, but whatever. They put in the work, you know, and I feel like everybody gets like one, like, hey, look, we're not really thrilled with this. We need you to do this. And if they don't do it, then the mares are going to try and find a way to move on. They've done it pretty much every time. All right, Zach wants to know, are you surprised that the M's moved Luke Heyman this quickly?

The system catcher depth is still solid with Grant J, Josh Karen, and Luke Stevenson, but a college catcher with some hype seems like a lot for a reliever with clear red flag. So talking about the Alex Hoppy trade, the reliever that the mayor has got from the Red Sox for their 14th round draft pick, Luke Heyman out of the University of Florida this past year. yeah haman was a top 20 guy on our on our list um we liked him there was some probability there but at the end of the day i mean he's a 14th round pick i'm not losing sleep over that it also says hoppy has a real chance we think hoppy has a real chance to help us as soon as 2026 hayman is a couple years away and we've signed cow rally to an extension we have harry ford currently

we spend a first round pick on luke stevenson we still have grant j we still have josh care Now, Grand J might wind up in a corner. Right, but whatever. I mean, Heyman might too. Like, it's just one of those things. Heyman is probably a backup catcher long term. Yeah. And you have an opportunity to add a player that you think has high leverage ceiling.

And I think the Mariners believe that about Hoppe. And it's a guy who could help you as early as this year. These are the type of moves you make. And this is why you draft. This is why you take the 14th round seriously. because you never know what could happen. And by the way, if Hoppe stinks and, you know, Heyman is like a solid backup catcher, you know,

who's going to care, nobody. Nobody's going to care because the Mariners, by the way, there's one thing you should count on the Mariners to do. They can develop some catching. Like, it's not just Cal Raleigh. Look at what they did to Nola. Look at how they held Tom Murphy. I mean, obviously Harry Ford and now they have Luke Stevens.

like the mariners can't identify and develop catching they're pretty good at it pretty consistently good at it so don't worry about it it's it's whatever i didn't know who lukeman was four months ago i'm not going to shed a tear about it to be fair i also didn't know who alex hoppy was three days ago so no you know whatever but uh to me what's most interesting about that deal is that hoppy was rule five eligible the mariners probably felt that they weren't going to be able to get him. He wasn't going to be able to fall to where they were picking. And so they made him a priority.

And not just that, but they also made it so they don't have to keep him on the 26-man roster the whole time without, you know, running the risk of having to give him back to the Red Sox. Yeah. Now he's just in the organization. They can do whatever they want with him.

They can do whatever we want with his options. So, yeah. So that to me just says more about like how, they feel about hoppy um them prioritizing him all that and the cost to me like yeah we had haman a bit higher than most people uh but like it's a 14th round pick all right last question of the day here comes from ryan who are your top five realistic choices for left-handed right-handed bullpen options to acquire well i don't i don't have a top five there are just so many names i

could not possibly condense that down to a uh to a top five at least not on the spot so i'm just going to give you a bunch of names that i like the the left-handed reliever side of things is uh is interesting to me because like you know we just did our division on uh by division trade preview uh series and like we talked about quite a few of these guys it just depends on like what shelf for the mayor is going to be shopping from in that regard and are they going to look to address kind of like both of the things that they're looking for a high leverage arm and a lefty because like it's been reported that they they want both right they want a high leverage arm and they want a lefty well you can just do both of those things in one

move one one player could fill both of those those needs right so you know if that's the case then that would be like adrian more hon from the padres is he even available who knows garrick clevenger that's going to cost quite a bit are the mayor is willing to pay that price for two years of him. Yeah, Matt Strom, like, is David Browski actually going to be realistic and reasonable with his asking price? There's also

Jose Alvarado and Tanner Banks there as well. You know, with the Braves listen on like Dylan Lee. So I just, I have a bunch of questions. There's a lot of guys that I like. There's a lot of lefty relievers specifically on the trade market that I like. Or specifically guys, maybe they're not

on the market, but like specifically guys, you would have to trade for if you're going to acquire them that I like. And then there's like a couple of guys in free agency as well, like Danny Kulom and Hopi Milner, you know, the two Rangers lefties that are free agents now. And then righties, there's a billion guys. You know, again, I would keep an eye on the Rockies because the mares did quite a bit of work on them leading up to the deadline. I would keep an eye on

like Juan Mejia Jimmy Hergit, those guys Yep Yeah the righties There's a ton You know Yeah To try and narrow it down to five

Like a top five It's impossible I don't have a top five Sorry No like no That's just Top five what Right handed relievers

That might be available I don't know Because we can't even say like, oh, well, Pete Fairbanks, like, are the Mariners going to spend 11, 12 million bucks on a reliever? Probably not, but they're also making it a priority. So might they? I don't know. Like, it's one of those things.

There's just, you know, you're better off just asking about, like, specific guys. But like, because the Mariners aren't going to shop, I think that's just my assumption at the Hellsley, you know, certainly not the Diaz-S-S-Warez, but probably not the-Helsley, probably not the-Helsley might wind up getting a contract. start yeah from the tigers for the tires yeah terrick scoble's a lefty but uh got our high leverage pulpit arm here's terrible school yeah but you know like chris martin is a is an interesting guy uh if he's going to pitch we don't know yeah but like yeah whatever the lefties are the guys that you're probably going to have to trade for it's not a great class of them in the free agent market right now the righties it's just kind of like who do you like take your pick and who are you willing to spend the money on because like yeah it's really is at a point

to like paul sewald and be like oh i won't paul back like not great last year but do you even want to spend kyle finnigan money like you're not going to spend d s s war as money do you want to spend finnigan money do you want to spend you know fairbanks money or yeah i mean there's there's a couple guys that I've mentioned here on the show and on the Patreon as well that I just I would be down to take a shot on like Michael Copac. Yeah. Jacob Junis.

I like Sean Armstrong. And then there's always guys that you could take a shot on like I wouldn't mind them taking a shot on Alexis Diaz. But I'll tell you the one I'll give you two Ritey's in trade. Matt Festa. Yes, that Matt Festa.

And Edwin Yuseda is a guy who misses a ton of bats. He's got plenty of years of club control. He does it a little bit differently than other guys in the bullpen. And that is something that I wouldn't mind at it. I wouldn't mind if the Mariners went out this winter and they were like, yeah, we have enough sinker, slider guys. Let's go get forcing curveball. Let's go get somebody who throws straight over the top instead of this low three quarters that we really like. or let's go get somebody who throws below three quarters.

Let's go get a submarine or like let's mix up the looks a little bit because obviously, you know, Munoz and Bizarro and Brash, they don't have the same stuff, right? They don't throw from the same. I get that. But it's all pretty similar. It's two seamers and it's sliders. And so it's one of those things where it's like some variety is nice. Like give this guy, give these teams a different look.

We saw in the playoffs how nice it could be to be like, oh, well, this is a guy you haven't seen her like for the last three innings you've watched guys thrown from the you know 28 degree arm angle and they're all throwing 98 mile an hour two seamers with wipeout sliders like eventually you pick that stuff up and if you see it every single day for five days in a row it's a lot easier to hit so how about hey here's a guy thrown straight over the top and he's thrown 95 mile an hour fast balls up in the zone and then he's got a 126 curve ball that he works over the top of that like I think those are the type of things those little changes that you can make to the bullpen where it's

not the same profile, every single arm that comes out of your pen, I would like to see them add. And that's why, like you say to who does throw from a lower arm slot, but his big out pitch is a change up, which is different than what you have in this bullpen. So I do think that, you know, the mayor is probably going to prioritize the sinker slider guys. They're really good at that. And that's what they like. That's their bread and butter. But I think there's some merit to mixing things up.

And that's why a guy like Devin Williams would be interesting, but I'm not giving Devin Williams three years, which is probably what he's going to get. So, yeah, I think the trademark. market is where you're going to get the lefty. But I kind of with Ty, I think why not just, you know, get both at the same time because the lefties that we just talked about, the, the Stroms and the Clevengers, like in Morahone, they are high leverage and their lefties. And so you just knock that out and cross out too.

And then maybe maybe if you get a like if you get a Clevenger right in trade or whatever, you get a strong pick the lefty right maybe then you are willing to go out into free agency and spend six million dollars or whatever you think ryan stanick is like whoever you think the undervalued asset is i think that makes more sense to do it that way so we'll see all right that is going to do it for our show thank you so much for joining us here on the locked on mayors podcast part of the lockdown podcast network of your team every day for colby pat node i'm tiding azales be sure to give us a follow on twitter at l o underscore merrars you can follow me at tiding Azas and Colby at C-Pad 11. That's C-PAT-1-1. We're also on Blue Sky. You can follow me at

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