Locked On Mariners - Daily Podcast On the Seattle Mariners - The Mariners Only Have $16 Million to Address All of Their Needs With?!

Episode Date: November 25, 2024

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Adam Jude of the Seattle Times says the mayor's non-tender decisions might have doubled the amount of money they have to spend this winter. Yikes, if that's true. We'll give you our thoughts on that and more coming up here on the Lockdown Merris podcast. 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.

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for me and Colby even more and help support the show. Check out our Patreon. All you have to do is click the link in the description of this episode. Kicking this off here on Mailbag Monday is Jeff with a question that a lot of you ask some variation of. So we're going to use his question to essentially address all of those questions that you guys submitted. $16 million all the mirrors have for the off season or is that being overblown.

So there were questions like, are they screwed if they only have $16 million or something around that number? What do they do if they only have that much money? All that good stuff. So we'll get into all that. But if you missed it after the Mariners decided to non-tender Josh Rojas, awesome vote. And then officially non-tendered slash DFAD JT. Shargwa. They saved about $8 million in projected salary. And Adam Jude of the Seattle Times tweeted that,

That might have doubled what they have to spend this winter. So do we think that's the case or is that being overblown? The answer is I don't know. We don't know. And I don't think Jude himself knows that for a fact either. What's your read on the situation, Colby? Yeah. I mean, context is pretty important here because like, let's say hypothetically they do have $16 million.

And keep in mind, the tweet says about doubled, projected payroll space. So right there, there's already two clues that are that say like this is an estimate. This is a guess, right? Projection, about doubled. So, but I think the important thing there is like, okay, payroll space based on what, like what they're currently committed to already in 2025, what they ended last season on? Because right now they're below the number where they were last year. And somewhat ironically, around $16 million would put them just about where they finished last year, which is about $147.

So, you know, I think about $16 million right now probably gets them a little bit over $150. Because I believe they're at 132.1. Right. Because from our math, when we were doing the offseason plan, adding Randy a Roserana, Cal Raleigh, George Kirby, and Logan Gilbert's projected ARB salaries on top of the guaranteed salaries. that includes, you know, Mitch Hanigur and the bow for Jorge Polanka would bring them to 128. They added 4.1 in projected Arb again with Thornton, Spire, and Saucato. Am I missing anyone? I think that's everyone, right?

So, yeah, that would essentially bring them to around 132.1. Right. And there are, I don't know, seven, six to seven guys who are pre-Arb. we're going to make this opening day roster. They're going to make, you know, about $750,000 each, give or take. So, you know, they're probably right around when you factor in all those guys, 138-ish, give or take. So, yeah, if it's $16 million over that, then their budget's $155-ish. If it's $16 million over what the final year payroll was last year, which is, you know, 147 or something like that,

then that would put them at around $163. So, you know, even if this number is, is accurate or even without knowing kind of like what the, what the starting point is that we can pretty confidently say that, yeah, the budget looks like it's probably going to be somewhere between 155 and 165, which is kind of the number we've been operating with all year or all winter. At least you and I have, mostly on that 160 line. When we did the offseason plan. Right. So I here's the deal. Jude doesn't know for sure. There's a 0% chance of Seattle Mariners have told him like, hey, this is our budget for this upcoming year. Didn't happen, not happening.

There's literally no reason for the Mariners to divulge that information with anybody, let alone beat reporters. So Jude is estimating. He's guessing he has his own projection that he's using for payroll. And maybe he's right. I mean, I'm not saying he's definitely wrong. It's our far fetch considering how the mayor is operating. Right. Yeah.

And so, but it's just one of those things where it's like, yeah, it kind of. matters, you know, where, what's their starting point? Is it $16 million, $15 million, $20 million over where they finished last year, over where they started last year, over where they're currently are. Like, those are things that matter here. And again, it's worth noting Jude says nearly doubles or almost doubles or roughly doubles. Like it, you know, we're kind of parsing here. And then projected payroll. That is Adam Jude's projected payroll. That is maybe the Seattle Times projected payroll. it's not the Mariners projected payroll. So Jude could be right, but we cannot sit here and tell you, like, this is absolutely 100% the fact.

And you should treat it as the gospel. Well, and we haven't heard anything. No. Personally. So we're kind of in the dark on this. And we have all the information that you're purview to as well here. So if you can't definitively say it, then we can't definitively say that it's, you know, one thing or the other. Right.

You start using terms like roughly doubled. projected payroll. And then he comes out, Jude comes out later and says like, well, that's just like my guess. And when you're the Mariners, you invite this type of, you know, freak out and criticism, even if you haven't done anything wrong yet. Because for all we know, the marries are going to spend $170 million this winter. They're not. But you know what I mean?

Like you don't get the benefit of the doubt when you behave the way you have for the last few off seasons. And so, yeah. Yeah. Like I think it's totally reasonable guess from Jude. but that's really what it is. It's an educated guess. Yeah.

And we don't know if he's right or he's wrong. But depending on what they're talking about, like what the Mariners are stating as their budget or whatever, it really does matter a little bit. If it's, you know, is it 15 to 20 million off of last year's final number? Off of last year's starting number is,

I mean, off of what they are now, that changes things. They can go from 150 to, you know, 165, depending on where the starting point is. And so,

yeah, it's up in the air. So it's a little bit overblown. It is. But it's also not like like hogwash. No, don't listen to this. They have so much more money that like no. So they might have less.

Who knows. Right. So again, it's like no shade of Jude. Yeah. I don't think that he's making this up. But I think it's much more of an educated guess than it is like I know what it is. I've been told this is what it is. Sure.

So yeah, I think the freak out is a little bit. overblown, but also like again, you invite this on yourself every winter. So of course it is. To answer some of the other variations of this question about the $16 million or roughly $16 million, are they screwed if that's all they have? What do they do if that's all they have? How do they attack this offseason? They're not screwed. They make it a lot harder on themselves. But yeah, that's all they have. And it sounds like they're already planning on spending five to eight million of it on either Turner or Santana. Then they're going to have to get aggressive on the pre-arb guys or the Arb one guys,

which means they're going to have to be aggressive in trading with their prospects. So, you know, again, you're not screwed. And how possible is that in this market? I think it's more possible than people think, especially if you're the only team. that's out there throwing around your top prospects. But yeah, like it's, it definitely like narrows your, your margin of error, which again, sucks. But you can absolutely have a good quality off season,

only spending $15, $16 million, just a lot harder. Significantly. And you have to be willing to take more chances that traditionally this front office hasn't been too comfortable taking. So they're going to have to change how they operate a little bit here. if that is in fact all they have. But no, they're not screwed. It's just, again, they made things unnecessarily more difficult on the...

Now, they just have a really tight window to fit. Yep. So we'll see how they try and maneuver that if that is the case. Hopefully they do have more money to spend than that projection. But we'll see. All right, we're going to answer more of your questions here in just a moment. But first, a reminder, this episode of the Lockdown, Merritt's podcast is brought to you by Omaha Stakes. Nothing delivers comfort and joy quite like the unrivaled quality and taste of Omaha Steaks.

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Kyle Finnegan was a surprise non-tender from the nationals. I think, you know, he's probably going to want eight million bucks, give or take. I don't know if Finnegan's a guy I'd give eight million dollars to. Not that he's not worth it. It's just, again, like, if I'm working on a limited budget, I'd rather go trade for, you know, because I can get like an elite type of closer. Like I can get Ryan Helsley for $6 million. I can get Devin Williams for $8 million. I'd rather go spend on those guys than, you know, a guy.

Now you also have to spend prospects to go against those guys. I'd still rather do that, though. Yeah. But yeah, I mean, like Finnegan at a certain price. Yeah, sure. That makes sense. Romano, again, probably like Finnegan, too much money. also he had elbow issues I think this last year

but you're not the right price sure yeah Jordan Romano would be a nice ad you know not too many super surprises in the non-tender market one name that did get non-tender that I'm pretty interested in you'd have to stash him because he's going to miss most if not all of 2025 so it'd have to be a two-year deal kind of like they did with Ken Giles a few years ago

Patrick Sandoval of the Angels I really like him. He's got pretty good stuff. He's a lefty. He's 28 years old. He's got a three-win season under his belt a couple years ago, but he's dealt with some injuries.

But I really like Patrick Sandoval. I really think there's more there. And, you know, getting a guy from the Angels to the Mariners could do wonders for his career. So, yeah, the closers are certainly up there. Patrick Sandoval is up there. That's a stash.

And then, you know, depending on the cost, like, if I can get Brennan, and Rogers for a million five, like fine, whatever. If I can get Josh Rojas back for a million five, like fine, whatever. But yeah, it's mostly relief pitchers and then Patrick Sandoval for me. Tyler wants to know, in your opinions, does the non-tendering of Josh Rojas open up a spot for Cole Young to be on the opening day roster at second base? Do you think the mayors have this in mind for the moment?

Last we heard from Justin Hollander at the GM meetings was that Young's going to start the year at AAA. I don't think that's changed because I assume that they were all. already planning on non-tendering Rojas at the time. So no, I think right now, just with the guys that they have in tow, it's Dillamore. It's Ryan Bliss. Those guys are under consideration to be the opening day second baseman. Also tells me that they almost certainly going to get either a second basement or a third

baseman this winter. And so, no, I don't think got Cole Young is, I don't think the Mariners plan is for Cole Young to be the opening day second baseman. No, the raw-haust thing. No. Doesn't make me think they've changed their mind on that. Yeah, no. All right, we are going to answer more of your questions here in just a moment.

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And you're listening to the Locktime Marries podcast. It is Mailbag. Monday, we're answering your Mariners questions. We got this one from BT. What's to know, what do you think the front office has identified in the guys they added at the deadline that allowed them to produce in Seattle? Is there some metric that differentiates Robles and Turner from Winker and Garver? Or did they just finally hit on acquisitions they would have made regardless?

Yeah, I looked into this a bit. I didn't find anything specifically. The metrics are in the data that says, like, this is why these guys hit. this is why these guys didn't. I will say this, the one thing that I did find pretty consistently, is Turner, a Rosarena, Rayleigh. They all hit at Team Mobile Park. Like they had a history of hitting a Team Mobile Park,

whereas Garber was 0 for 33. And again, these are all microscopic sample sizes. So it's like, yeah. I mean, like Luke Rayleigh literally, yeah, like one. I thought he had like one or two. Now he played a three game series here last year. And that was it. Like so he had like 12 to 15 plate appearances.

Randy Rosarina had like, I don't know, 50, 55. Like these are all very small sample sizes. And they're not just number. I imagine Turner didn't have many. I mean, no, no, not really. But you know, Boston, Toronto and then a couple with LA. But they all hit at Team Mobile Park. That was the thing.

Robles didn't have like he had less than Turner even at Team Mobile Park. So hard to say there. And, you know, again, because the sample sizes are so small, I'm not comfortable saying like, oh, yeah, just go get guys who have hit a T-Mobile Park and they'll hit at T-Mobile Park. Like, no, it's not that easy. It doesn't matter the sample size, even if they have one plate appearance. They have a hit there. They have a double.

Yeah, they can hit there. Yeah, clearly. And it's like, no, that that's not it. But like, that's the only thing that I saw when I, I, because I did try to figure this out because the mariner seemed to imply that like, we think we figured something out here to help identify the right players who can hit at this ballpark. And again, a Rosarena hit at this ballpark. ballpark, Robles hit at this ballpark, Turner hit at this ballpark. They were three for three this summer.

And, you know, Rayleigh was the last move they made it or one of the last moves they made in the offseason. And he hit at this ballpark. Polanco didn't, though. So like, it's one of Hanniger had a, had a longer track record of hitting that Team Mobile Park. And he was much better at Team Mobile Park than he was anywhere else this year. So I don't know if they've identified something specifically in the numbers.

Maybe it's just something scouting wise. I really doubt it's like. hey, let's just put a ton of stock in, you know, 18 plate appearances and, and determine that as whether or not these guys going to hit Team Mobile. But that's literally the only thing I found when I looked is that the guys who'd hit at Team Mobile this year had a track record. Some of them literally just a handful of games of hitting at Team Mobile. So I didn't notice anything in Exit Velos. I didn't because Ameriards typically like guys with Exivilos. You know who doesn't have high exit Velos?

Justin Turner. And he had great. Victor Robles and he had great here. So I couldn't find anything in swing profile. And I mean, they're all three of those guys are right handed. And they all hit a Team Mobile Park before. Yeah,

I mean, these iterations of Justin Turner and Victor Robles are a bit more contact oriented than, you know, like a Mitch Garver, for example. But Randy at Rosarana and Luke Rayleigh strike out quite a bit. So it's not like they just went for contact.

You know what I mean? So, yeah. Like they're all different enough. like half of them will have similarities and you think you have something and then you look at the other half and you're like, nope, that's not it.

So I think it's, I think they've identified something either scouting wise or it could just be that they got lucky on those three guys. Like I really doubt that the Mariners looked at it. Maybe it's just changing the messaging to their headers.

Yeah, yeah, absolutely. So I don't, if there is like if they have found something that is going to help them determine who's likely to hit a team mobile and who isn't, I don't know what it is. I haven't found it. And I don't know if I ever will, because I don't have as much data as they do.

But they seem to think, or they seem to imply at least, that they figured something out, you know, in the middle of last year and they're comfortable going forward with the same methodology. So we'll see if they're right or wrong, but I haven't figured it out. Next question here from Mariner Moose 79. What is the reason the Mariners didn't play Luke really much

at the beginning of the season? Was they didn't trust him an injury or something behind the scene? what I had heard for those first like couple of weeks of the season before he started playing regularly, which was about that April 20th. Yeah, it was that Rocky series, right? Was they were trying to make a tweak. I don't know what that tweak was, but they were something that they identified in spring training and they were trying to work on with him. Right.

Luke Rayley himself said, yeah, I sucked. I wouldn't play me either. So when you're trying to work through something, it's a really difficult like situation because you have to play in games for like the tweak to actually take effect. But also if the tweak doesn't take effect quickly enough, you have a black hole in your lineup.

And so you know, it's kind of a balancing act. Yeah. Right. So it's kind of a balancing act that's pretty tough. I'm typically of the, of the teaching or discourse or whatever you want to call it that like, you play guys through that stuff. Like they have to be out there,

regularly so they can see this work and they have to trust in all that stuff. But the Mariners kind of tried to, you know, just kind of let it sit. And it's different for every player because it really goes out there and he just, he gets, you know, 100 plate appearances in that first couple of weeks instead of 15, 20. And he's just terrible. His confidence might be shot for the entire seat. He might abandon hope and all that stuff. So I think it was just that they had a tweak they were working on.

Remember, Rayleigh was terrible in spring training too. So they had a tweak they were working on. he wasn't working he wasn't hitting right at the time yet and so they were just trying to maximize their wins early in the year um and so i think it's just a combination of they were trying to tweak something change something and the it just took longer for that to take hold than they were expecting or hoping it would uh and they just didn't want to risk you know him resorting back to whatever it was they were trying to fix when he struggled as much as he did Super Soul 8075 wants to know.

What do you guys think of the mayor of signing, Junior Marte, and Adonis Medina to minor league deals? Could they be part of the bullpen next year? Would they fit better as depth pieces? Well, as we say every year, when the mayor is bringing in guys like this on Mary League deals, you never know. They might be throwing high leverage Indians for the Mariners at some point next year.

We'll see what kinds of, you know, tweaks and ideas they have for these guys. You know, there's some interesting data on Medina's changeup that I know has been making the rounds on social media. Not really sure what they see in Marte. I know it's an interesting sinker, but he's one of those guys that throws hard and can't really locate.

Those guys are, you know, are dime a dozen typically in the mayors have taken shots on a lot of those guys and really haven't found much with that kind of profile. Sure. But yeah. It's the pile, right? And it's like last year where it's like, oh, look, we have Snyder and Mauricio Jovera.

Was that his name? Oh, yeah. I forgot about him. And Joey Crable and Ty Butchery. And it's like, yeah, only one of those guys hit, but you hit big on that one guy and Colin Snyder. And it really helped. And that's really what you're doing here, right? You're collecting names.

You're collecting arms. You're throwing them in the mix. And then you're hoping one of them hits. And more than one hits, fantastic. But you're really hoping one of these guys hits. And so they are most definitely like depth pieces. they signed minor league deals so they can start the year in Tacoma. I mean, they might have opt-outs at the end of spring training.

That's possible as well. Most do, but I don't know of Medina and Marte. Is it Marte? Yeah. Yeah. I don't know if they have like the cachet of like, yeah, if I don't make the big league roster, I'm definitely going to opt out and all that stuff. So we'll see right now they're definitely depth pieces.

But again, the Mariners are probably going to sign a couple more guys like this, throw them into the pile. And in the spring, you know, they can keep a couple of them around in AAA, a couple will leave. And they will just kind of churn through until they find the one that fits. So their depth pieces like Colin Snyder, but again, Colin Snyder hit. And they would have had another one in Tyson Miller if they didn't, you know, trade them. So, yeah, they usually find one or two of these guys. But yeah, you're just looking for different profiles, different type of arms.

And you're just going to throw them all at the kitchen sink. can we'll probably see them quite a bit early in spring training and yeah they're their depth major league experienced depth that you stash in triple a and maybe just maybe uh one of them is drew second rider or or colin snider or Gabe spire was one of these guys like uh seewald yep paul seawal taylor sasado like uh the mares typically get one or two guys like this to produce for them in the middle of the year and that's really all they're looking for last question of the day comes from M's to the moon, aka at Colby's underscore

Burner. I think you're just putting them on here just because of the ad now. Rink these Eitro moments by favorite to least. Eitro's 3,000th hit breaking the single season hits record at 262 hits. The throw to nail

Terrence Long of the A's at third, his rookie year, and the inside the park home run from the 2007 All-Star game. Quite a diverse list options here. 3,000 is last. That didn't happen with the Mariners.

I don't care. Yeah, I didn't watch it live. Yeah. All these other things I watch live. Sure. So that's last. I would say two and three are pretty interchangeable for me. It's the hit record or the inside the park home run.

The hit record was great, but it came at the end of a terrible season. So that kind of mires it a little bit. the inside of the park home run was funny because the ball kicked away from ken griffy jrfie jr. So that that was pretty fun. Honestly, I would throw each year's infield single the 2001 all-star game on this list and say that was off of randy johnson. So it's a mariner on mariner crime in the all-star games for each yearo. I'd probably go the inside the park three because I mean it's it's an all-star game who cares

the hit record probably two and then yeah the throat of the nail Terrence long that's something out of Star Wars I mean yeah it's my favorite Dave Nehous call first and foremost it's hard to separate the play from the call for me and also to me that was like

the moment that like each row like let the baseball world know like I'm real I'm legitimate I'm here to play and now you have to deal with me that was a statement type of throw and so that's always the moment that I had to look back and I'm like, that's when you knew each year old was going to be something special.

Yeah, the inside of the park home run wouldn't even been on my top like five each year old moments. Because like I still think of like the walk off against Mariano. That was great. I think of the infield single off of Randy Johnson. Yeah. I think that was great. You know how much I love that all-star game. Yeah.

It's the last great all-star game. Yeah. We've seen we get the Tommy LaSorter thing. We get A-Rod pushing Cow Rip into shortstop. Ripkin hits a home run in his last, like, oh, it is like peak All-Star game is that right there. It doesn't get back. And it just so happened to happen in Seattle. Fantastic.

I need to get that tape. You know, I obviously, like, I tape that somewhere in a storage unit in New Mexico. I need to get that tape. So I can watch that back. Can we stop with this whole like, the All-Star game has to go to all the ballparks before it comes back? The All-Star game belongs in like 10 places, max. And Seattle is one of them. Seattle should have an all-star game every decade.

I agree. Like even 20-203, it was awesome. Like, yeah, like, you know, the all-star game doesn't need to go to Houston. The Garcia and the Rosa Rana catches, the, you know, come to Seattle chant for Otani and all that. Yeah, it was great. The, like, the All-Star game, no offense, doesn't need to go to Cleveland. Nobody cares. Yeah.

Seattle, New York, Boston, L.A., San Francisco, you know, And by the way, I hear somebody saying like, you can just watch it on YouTube. No, I want to watch my VHS tape. My personal VHS recording of the All-Star game of the 2001 All-Star game. Yeah. So anyways, I imagine we'll probably be talking about each year a little bit this, this winter. It'll be inducted in the Hall of Fame here in a couple weeks.

Usually middle of January is when they make those announcements. So, yeah. we'll probably have like maybe even a whole episode of just each year out but uh yeah uh it'll be fun uh stroll down memory lane each year was like the like i got into baseball like in the early 2001 was like the first year i actually watched baseball and obviously as a 10 year old each year was the best player on that team uh pretty important never my favorite player but obviously you know each year played a pretty big impact uh my camera was my favorite player mine was in those teams yeah yeah

Yeah, mine was Edgar, but each row is certainly right there. Definitely right there. So yeah, some good commercials for each row too. Mm-hmm. Yeah, yeah. But yeah, your list basically the same as mine of the options that we were given. All right. So let's spend the wheel for top five Tuesday topics.

You get the helm this week, Colby. So let's get into that first. All right. So we only have four options here on the helm for Colby. third base options one of the original ideas that we put on this wheel it's still standing after Josh Ross has been done 10 talks about all of them already but okay will this be the week let's see let's find out I'm rooting for Mariners trades of all time uh and is top five trades married history there you go that'll be a fun one each year old for Danny Farquhar

Who? Yeah, exactly. All right, so top five trades, Maronis history coming your way from Colby tomorrow. Let's see what I get. Got quite a few options on here. Quite a few new options on here. Ooh, that's very close.

Top five meritor's things I own. All right, so we're going to do a little show and tell tomorrow. Which is nothing. Well, there you have it. Top five trades of Mariners History, which is right up Colby's alley and top five Mariners things I own. So a little show and tell on tomorrow's episode

of Locked-on Mariners. So that's going to go great for those of you that just listen on podcast platforms. Just realize that. You'll have to use your imagination. I'll try to take up 27 of the 30 minutes. Sure.

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