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Episode Date: April 2, 2026

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Like we said earlier this week, plenty of positives to take away from the Baron's first homestand of the season for sure. But it ended on a sour note, both offensively and in the rotation. We'll talk about it. 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 Wednesday, April 1st, 2026. My name is tighting as all. I'm joined as always by my co's Colby Patnode. And at the time of this recording, the Mariners are well on their way to a three and four homestand to start the season. They're not going away quietly just yet. It's five to two Yankees on the bottom of the night,

but there's two outs run around second for the Mariners. So we'll see maybe there's a miracle that happens here. And if it does, you'll get to see us react to it in real time. Well, not real time. You'll get to see us react to it after the fact, but whatever. So yeah, real time for us. So obviously three and four homestand, not the worst,

especially going up against a couple of playoff teams. And especially when you consider, you know, a lot of the issues that did crop up over the stretch. But obviously the last couple days, you know, today included, have been frustrating. So we'll talk about some of that. I also want to throw it back to Monday's game since we didn't talk about it and show Luis Castillo some love.

And, uh, okay. Oh. Oh, is it happening, Chloe? I don't know. You're a couple pitches ahead of me, I think. Maybe you should look at game day with me. Maybe this is the good luck. Maybe this is the good luck charm right here is watching on game day, watching the dots.

No, I'm watching the thing live and that's all that matters. Hey, look at that. The mirrors would be down by one if Dan Wilson knew how to use his bullpen. But I guess we're just going to get Andres Munoz up, even though, you know, and not use them. Yeah. not use him down by two. God forbid we use him down by two because he hasn't pitched since Saturday. You have a day off tomorrow too.

You don't want to burn him today in a game you might not win when he hasn't pitched in five days and he's not going to pitch tomorrow. And then immediately Cooper Chriswell gives up a home run. Immediately gives up home run to Ben Rice. Look, there are much bigger fish to fry the day. Right on Q. I understand that. But like, come on. Yeah.

It's just so, it's just too on the nose. anyways. Look, does it ultimately going to end up mattering? No, I highly doubt it. I mean, I don't. Maybe Cole Young cranks one here, but I doubt it. But look, I still wanted to get that out there. It's stupid. But we do have bigger fish to fry

right now. Yeah. Starting with Logan Gilbert and George Kirby, I want to talk about both of those guys starts in this series. Kirby going today against the Yankees. Gilbert last night. I want to start with him. That's really where my issue ultimately is. I don't have too too much of an issue with Kirby's start today but we'll dive into that but yeah

Gilbert's last night another five and a third from him got the first two guys that he saw out in 12 pitches but then he gives up a single to Cody Bellinger then a double to Ben Rice and then a bloop single to John Carlo Stanton and boom it's two nothing after he was on the doorstep of getting out of that inning completely unscathed didn't give up another run until the sixth inning, but he really just didn't look like himself all night long. And eventually that came crashing down on him there in the sixth inning. And the stat line just really went sideways there.

So yeah, it's just another really disappointing start out of Logan. I mean, it's the same thing that we've talked about for basically a year now with the guy since that opening day start that he had last year against the A's, I just, I don't really know what else to say because it's the same thing over and over, over and over and over again. Despite making some, you know, tweaks to try and, you know, get back to where he was.

They haven't worked. And this is where we can say like, well, it's early because the tweaks that he's trying to make, it is early. And you need to give those time to settle in. But what we can't use the, it's early excuse for is that Logan, Gilbert is now a five and dive guy. That's who he was all last year. That's who he has been through the first two starts this year.

And that's, you know, again, there's a bigger conversation to be had when we talk about like, hey, do the Mariners extend them? Well, do you want to extend a guy who's only going to give you five innings every single start? Probably not. But that's not the discussion we're having today. I think the discussion we need to have today is, is, you know, who is Logan Gil? Is this just who Logan is? because this is who he's been for about the last year worth of starts. And this is just not good enough.

And there are times where he's just non-competitive. And when something is an issue over and over and over and over again, you know, then it becomes something that's very real, not something that we could just brush away with like, oh, it was injuries. Oh, it's a small sample. Oh, it's, you know, just kind of your cherry picking like, no, we're about 30 starts in. And Logan Gilbert is a five and dive guy.

And that's a problem because that's supposed to be your staff ace. So we'll see how it goes in his next outing. But yeah, last night was frankly just not great. And there was a moment. Innings two through five, he actually looked pretty good. So, you know, you thought maybe he might be able to get through six. He was in good spot to do that. And then it just all fell apart, which, by the way, is another problem for Logan that's cropped up in the past.

He gets to the end of the start. He gets past pitch 90. and you try and stretch him for another out or two, and then he gives up a big hit. Usually it's a three run home run. And it kind of sinks the entire outing. Last night it wasn't quite that, but it was very similar effect.

So we have seen two of Logan's bigger issues last night over the last, you know, over the last 50 starts or so, you know, can't quite finish it. And also, you know, can't get through five. When he does get through, when he does get past the sixth, he kind of struggles to finish on a strong note.

But right now he's not even doing that. He's not getting past the fifth or the sixth, I should say. So yeah, lots of problems with Logan and it's not a small sample size anymore. People need to stop saying that. It's 28, 30 starts in now where he's been roughly the same pitcher. Yeah. And obviously we're not, we're not even two full turns to the rotation into this season yet, but seven starts in pretty clearly Logan Gilbert's been the weakest link in the rotation.

and that's kind of a running thing. I know it was it was close. Yeah, Cole Young almost did it. He almost did it. My eyebrow, it didn't show me the result. I was watching it on the dots and I was watching the ball fly.

I don't know if you guys caught my reaction to it. If it was down the line, he might have had a shot. Yeah. Yeah. So, I mean, you know.

Mariners officially lose 5 to 3, as you guys know, as you're listening to this. Yeah. Yeah. Wasn't, wasn't a good day today, today obviously but

and it wound up turning out a little bit better than you know showed some fight I thought it yeah like it's nice to see that they actually made a little bit of a comeback there and made it interesting against a bullpen that's been really good so far to to start the year just pitching staff in general that's been

really good yeah the mariner's are now officially three and four for I believe the fourth consecutive year in their first seven definitely 24 25 and obviously now 26 they went three and four they either going three and four or two and five in 23. So, yeah, the slow start for bad, you know, a mediocre first week, bad first week,

not an uncommon thing for the Seattle Mariners. But yeah, and like you said, there are still some positives to take away from this entire home. Yeah, I mean, like even, even today's game, there's some positives now to take away from that. So, yeah, but going back to Logan, you know, this is just kind of a running theme with this club. Yeah. through this first week of the season, you know, the biggest names on your roster

have been the worst players on your roster. It's been the weakest links. I think you can make a pretty compelling case that one home stand-in. Your four worst players are Logan Gilbert, Cal Raleigh, Julio Rodriguez, and Josh Nailor. Put him in whatever order you want. Cal Raleigh, by the way, still doesn't have a hard hit ball. That was a double today, not a hard hit. 80 mile an hour.

I was watching all the dots. So I don't know. So, I mean, we can talk about like, well, Julio doesn't have even, you know, doesn't have as many hits as Cal. He's hit the ball harder more consistently.

Josh Naylor's just chasing every, he's swinging at everything. Like, that's the problem there. And then, you know, he said some better swing decisions the last couple nights at least.

Yeah, he chased four or five pitches above his head today. So I might want to ease off. That was probably, that was, that was, after I stopped watching and started watching the dots.

There were a couple of against Schlittler too, but whatever. Shilettler was really good today. We'll leave that conversation. Yeah, we're kind of getting all over the place here. But anyways, yeah, Logan's been a problem. As have Cal, as have Julio, as have Nailer. And you can either look at that

as really good news or really bad news because we know they're not this bad. Yeah. But also, you know, you have this little pocket here. here where Cole Young is hitting and Luke Rayleigh is hitting and like all your complimentary players are hitting and Donovan's getting on base like a maniac at the top of the lineup.

Yeah. And he didn't take advantage of it because your three big bats didn't have him swung. By the way, Randy's certainly been better than those guys, but he doesn't have a home run yet either. The four guys who are probably going to lead this team in home runs have zero. Yeah. Through the first week. So yeah, we need to acknowledge that. but, you know, I don't know.

We're going to talk more about the two, three, four. We might save some of that for tomorrow. Tomorrow, tomorrow I want to talk about like lineup changes and stuff like that. Like, we're going to need some stuff to talk about for tomorrow with the off day. We have some full assignment stuff too, like minor league assignments are out now. But anyways, might have a little more to say about the Colt Emerson extension. Yeah, we've got more details on that. Yeah.

Not that it changes my opinion at all, but whatever. But yeah, Logan's been a problem. And he has been. And again, it's not to say, Logan's been bad for the last year. Last night was one of his worst starts over the last year or so. But he hasn't been great. And, you know, he's supposed to be the staff.

He's supposed to be great. And he's just been good. Sometimes he's okay. Sometimes he's good. I can't remember. I think you can probably count on one hand the number of times we would say Logan Gilbert has been great over his last 30 starts. That's a problem.

He was pretty good in the ALDS game against the Tigers. that's the one that comes to mind. Opening day last year, he was great. Yeah. And then there's probably two or three more throughout the year. But I bet we go back and we look at that game log and we go through the games. I bet we would say he was great and maybe five of them.

Counting the playoffs start. I think everyone else would say it was good or he was bad. So it's a bit of a problem right now. All right. So we're going to talk about George Kirby's start today. And then probably talk a little bit more about the lineup in just a moment. But first, a reminder of this episode of the lockdown airs podcast is brought to you by game time. MLB season is back and you can feel it.

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It's the pen tweet. Yes, on the locked on account and then the other poll you can vote in the description down below. So you can vote twice. Although by the way, don't think I didn't see the teacher who listens, who used his personal email and then his school email to vote twice. That's right. I noticed it and I will be name dropping you tomorrow. Yeah, that's right. You can't just have your first initial last name at two different ads and not expect me to catch that. But hey, you know what? Good for you. Finding a way to work around the system a little bit. There you go.

On the, I don't know what it is on Twitter. Maybe you could pull that up and make yourself useful. But on the Google form here, we've got ourselves a matchup. 193 responses. The double is winning 50.3

to 49.7%. I've a last check on Twitter. It was closer to 6040 for the double. So. Right. Right. now on Twitter 147 votes the double is winning 56.5%

to 43 and a half percent. So you add those up, the vote totals up and you got to do a little bit of math here. I'm going to guess the doubles up by about 4%. Okay, so George Kirby. Let's talk about him real quick. He started today's game. And I didn't think he was

particularly anywhere near as bad as his final stat line would say. I'm not saying that he was great by any stretch, but but I thought he was pretty solid. First inning starts, though, in a very similar way to how Logan Gilbert start went last night,

gets the first two guys that he saw out, and then issues a walk to Cody Bellinger, gives up a double to Ben Rice, and that scores Bellinger, and it's one-nothing Yankees, you know, shortly after Kirby was on the verge of getting out of that ending unscathed. Sound familiar?

It's because pretty much the same exact thing happened to Logan Gilbert. And then just like Gilbert, Kirby didn't give up another run until the sixth inning. And then just kind of all hell broke loose. Issues a couple more walks. And then boom, three run, home run off the bat of Paul Goldschmidt. Unfortunately, you know, one swing of the bat just kind of completely derails things for him. Yeah, we've talked about this.

You know, Kirby doesn't have elite stuff. He really does. He's good stuff. You know, and it's certainly not that it's average. stuff. It's above average, but it's not elite. You know, and when he leaves pitches in the middle of the plate, he's not going to get away with it all that often. And he certainly did in against the corpse of Paul Goldschmidt, which made that a little more embarrassing for him, I'm sure. But I think the bigger issue today was the three walks because all three of those walks

scored. And it's kind of been a thing this year. When you look at the Mariners starts, the starters have mostly been good aside from Logan. And really, Logan was fine in his first start, but not very good last night. And Georgia's stat line doesn't look that much better than Logan's, but I think we can, anybody who watched the game would tell you George was better than Logan yesterday. But, you know, they've had these untimely walks. And it seems like pretty much every single time a starter has walked somebody, a run is scored.

That runner has scored. It happened with Brian Wu. You know, it didn't happen with Hancock, but it happened with Brian Wu. It happened in Kirby's first start. it happened with the Logan last night. Like the walks had come and they score. And I think Logan more than anybody else here is a little theory I've been working on is that when George walks a guy, a run's going to score. Like, and I'm not saying like every walk leads directly to a run, but it just feels like how many earned runs is Kirby going to give up tonight?

Well, how many walks did he have? You have two walks? I'm going to guess he gave up two. There's just kind of a running theory I have. Thankfully, I don't have to, you know, track that throughout the year. The baseball reference and fan graphs will take care of that for me. I'll just look at walks versus earn runs. And I'm too lazy to track actual, like, what is the percentage of times this walked batter scored in that inning?

But, yeah, I think it's probably pretty high with George. It just seems like when he walks, guys, he almost gets so mad at himself that he loses concentration a little bit. And he's more prone to pipe pitches. And again, he doesn't have the stuff to just blow things by you. But the plus side is the velocity looked really good today. For the most part, command and control was pretty good. Again, got away from him for a really bad three-hitter stretch there. That ended up being the difference in the ball game.

But it's going to happen sometimes. I actually like the new change-up or the old change-up, kind of, you know, depending on how you want to look at it. No more splitter this year. Traditional change-up. I think that's a real nice weapon to use against the lefties. And it works against the righties, too. I think the knuckle curve is, I would like,

to see George and Logan use their curveballs more. I think those are pitches that they're underutilizing. I think they're over utilizing their sliders. I think they should be using the curve ball more. And again, maybe this is just an early season thing, but I don't believe there's been a mariner who has thrown more two seamers than four seamers so far in any of the seven starts. And that's not super common.

I mean, we know Brian Wu is kind of a 50-50. We know George loves to throw that two-seamer, that front hip two seamer. Lou loves to do that too and Hancock is a sinker slider guy that's who he's always been and he threw way more four seamers so maybe the mayors are going to be more four seam heavy this year

because George was I mean it was closer to a 50-50 mix between two seam and four seam but it was still two to one four seam versus two seam so I don't know that's just because of the matchups or because of the ballpark or what have you but

well it's interesting though because we've talked about you know kind of the the misalignment of pitching strategy and what the identity of this team ultimately is particularly on defense right yeah and how limited they are defensively and well yeah you'll get some whiffs and you'll get some you know strikeouts looking with the two seamer or sinker that's going to also produce a lot of ground balls and your infield defense is not

particularly good especially when it's fully healthy so like it's better than it was It's better. But obviously Donovan certainly still needs some work, and that's to be expected. Yeah. So I do better right now than he was last year. But yeah, we've talked about, you know, how little value they place in their defense, despite proclaiming to be a run prevention first team. That and then again, like bringing in someone like rare who's so ground ball heavy,

you know, we've talked about this. Without having guys with plus range in the infield. So I do wonder if maybe this is related to that, to the, those conversations that we had. Is it, hey, it's, it's cold in Team Mobile Park for the first week. We don't care about giving up fly balls. So throw that basketball at the top of the, the four seamer at the top of the zone. And maybe in July, it's, it's sinkers because the ball carries pretty well at T-Mobile in the summer.

And we want ground ball. I don't know. I don't know. But yeah, it is. We've talked about that pretty much every winter for the last, you know, three or four years now that, like, it's weird how much they love the sinker ball guys, the ground ball guys. and how little they seem to care about infield defense, at least range on the infield. Yeah.

So, yeah, so George didn't think his night was as bad as the Stalin said. But, yeah, just that six inning really got away from a minute, just through everything else for a loop. So, yeah, again, you know, seven starts in. Logan Gilbert's been your weakest link. You know, George overall, at the very least, he's avoided the blowup start. I wouldn't classify today as the blowup start.

We talked about this going into his first start that, you know, the last couple of years he's been chased early, given up, you know, eight or five or six, you know, that hasn't happened to him. Last year as a blow up start. Yeah.

Tonight was a start from two years ago. Kind of got away from him. Like, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But overall, like he was, especially innings two through five, like he was really good today,

I thought. So, yeah. Yeah. So, you know, just, I mean,

we mostly said everything that we wanted to say about the lineup, but yeah, they, they ran into, you know, a couple of buzz saws the last two days and Max Fried and Cam Schlittler and, yeah, you know, they ran into them at a really bad time, both because of what those guys are doing right now, how hot they are to start the year

and also because of, you know, the issues that we've talked about with this offense particularly in the two through four. And again, I think, I mean, because entering today, the Mariners, two, three, four hitters were slashing 087-203-101 with a 35.4% strikeout rate. And then today they went combined one for 12 with four strikeouts.

Now arguably the biggest hit of the day from this lineup came from that stack. But still, it's been it's been bad. It's been really bad. And it's reared its ugly head too many times in key situations already where there's been run scoring opportunities. This is ultimately, that stack has ultimately killed a lot of run scoring opportunities so far for this, for this club through just the first week. I mean, we saw it to start this game. You know, Brennan Donovan first pitch, double down the line.

And then Cal Raleigh strikes out, Julio strikes out. And at that point, Josh Naylor has to find grass. And he ends up flying out to Cody Bellinger. Not even competitive at bat mixed in with those three either. Like, not even a grind, not even a three-two count, not even a hard hit. hit ball, not even just easy outs. Yeah. And obviously, Slutler, really good.

The fastball is gross. But this has been a consistent thing here through the first week. And so we're going to talk about this more tomorrow. You know, I think right now you probably need to break up that stack until those guys start to show you some, some better results. Never wrong. Not even early this time. Just nailed it. I think my explanation of why I disagreed with you, though, it was great that it's kind of like, yeah, you were right, but it's kind of how like Dan is right when Casey Legamina throws a scoreless inning down one.

Like the process was still not good. Score one for me. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. But yeah, so we'll talk about that tomorrow. But yeah, the lineup, rough to watch. But nice to see, at least that, you know, they had some fighting them, you know, tonight, especially.

once they got into that Yankees bullpen. Pretty surprised that the Yankees took Schlittler out after 79 pitches. I get he's a younger starter and it's early on in the year. But like, cruising, man. That almost, it didn't, but it kind of almost blew up in their face. So, a little, a little too comfortable with it.

Yeah. And again, 79 pitches through four is a lot different than 79 pitches through seven. Like he was in a raw, I don't think he threw more than 12 pitches in any inning at that point. So yeah, that was weird. But like, I guess they're trying to protect the young arm. So, yeah, whatever. But yeah, it was just a little weird because that was, that was easy street for, for good old Cam Schlittler.

You have to be very careful how you pronounce that name when you're on the radio or the podcast or anything like that. So yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Nice to see Dominic Kenzon with a couple hits today.

A couple of hard hit balls. A couple hard hit balls for Luke Rayley. another hit for Cole Young and nearly hit a game time home run. It's pretty close actually. It nearly would have been a game winning home run if Dan was a sense that, you know, whatever. Third time bringing it up.

Sure, sure, sure. Again, I'm not even that mad about it. It just bugs me. It's just I just can't comprehend why you wouldn't do Moon you. I just make it makes sense for me, Dan. Of course. Of course. Of course. Yeah. I'm honestly, I'm really not that mad about it because it's like, yeah, they're going to lose anyways.

Like I said the same thing, I was like, yeah, they're going to lose, but it's weird. And now as I've been sitting here just thinking about that, continuing to let it kind of fester. I'm just like, why? I just like, explain it to me like I'm five, Dan. But anyways. So yeah, we'll see how this offense looks against a far worse angels pitching staff. And they're not even going to see two of their best guys. They're not going to see Kikuchi. they're not going to see Soriano in that series.

Soriano's giving you some trouble too. So that's actually nice. So we'll see how that goes in De Anaheim. But yeah, we're going to wrap things up here on a more positive note. We're going to talk about Luis Castillo start. It was so good on Monday. We're going to go over that in just a moment. But first a reminder, this episode of the longtime airs podcast is brought to you by Robin Hood and TurboTax.

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link in the description of this episode. So the series got off to a really nice start. Luis Castillo dominated the Yankees as the Marys went on to walk off New York, two to one. And because we did the mailbag yesterday, we didn't really get a chance to talk about it. No one wanted to ask about Luis,

but Luis was fantastic. What a surprise. And once again, it was I know, right? But once again, it was another four seam heavy attack from a Mariners starting pitcher to start this year.

The four seamer was sensational. this was just such an awesome start from from louis and in so many ways he went after a fantastic Yankees lineup you know the arguably the best lineup in all baseball in 2025 and he was like here's my fastball hit it and for the most part they didn't he ran a 40% called strike plus whiff rate on the four seamer with 13 whiffs on 30 swings And the Velo was, I mean, it was up quite a bit from where we typically see it, especially around this time of year from Luis Castillo.

This looked a lot like 2022, Luis Castillo in some ways. Colby, like that was, I mean, he was one of my flag players. I was very much on the train of like, hey, don't get bored with consistency with this guy. I think we're like, sure are you too? sure but like I didn't expect this from Lewis especially in start one I did it's against the Yankees he owns the Yankees of course of course like game seven with the ALCS

I don't care of Louise pitched game six I want him starting game seven against the Yankees but yeah he dominated and you know a little not that important note but I guess it's important to me because I made sure people knew about it with his first pitch yesterday Luis Castillo accrued five seasons with the Seattle Mariners which makes him Mariner Hall of Fame eligible and you better believe he better be in it because he is arguably the second best right-handed

starter in your franchise's history. I mean, obviously Felix is one, but who's number two? Freddie Garcia? Luis is better than Freddy. Is it Kirby? Is it Wu?

I don't think yet. I don't like yet. It's not Logan yet. So anyways, yeah, dude's been a warrior and he's, like we said, you know,

like we talked about a lot with JP, and like we talked about a lot with Luis and Randy, don't get bored with consistency. Consistently good is very valuable. And Luis Castillo is extremely valuable. We should have learned that lesson last year when he was the only guy who stayed healthy from start to finish, when he's the only guy you can count on to give you 180 innings every single year in this rotation. We should have learned that lesson last year.

And it seemed like people forgot it this winter. And people are just so eager to push him out the window so we can get Ryan Sloan or Kate Anderson up here. Well, well, well, I mean, I don't know who had the better start, but I don't know who's, who's had the best start so far, but it's either Hancock, who I've always been a big fan of, go back and read my, my articles from the 2020 draft over on an old website called Soto Mojo, huge fan of Emerson Hancock here. Uh-huh. Yep. Never wrong. Long-time believer. Long-time believer. Never wrong. Sometimes I forget that rule of myself. Emerson Hancock's strongest soldier, someone say.

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Never waver. Yeah. or Luis Castillo because like while Hancock's outing was better statistically Luis was facing a significantly better lineup and he also went did Luis get through seven or did he go six I can't six right six he went six and he almost didn't go six not really by his fault you know there were just a couple of moments that happened outside of his control that kind of led to his pitch count getting ballooned a little bit but it was you know he came out he came back out for that six sending. I think he threw what six pitches or seven

pitches to get the three outs that he needed something like that. I believe the last one was a 96 and a half mile an hour fastball too. So yeah. So he was he was feeling really good. Yeah. So again, don't get bored with consistency. Appreciate the great players that you have while you have them. Uh, because this idea that Louise Castillo should have been shown the door this winter just to make room for, you know, Kate Anderson at the time. I think. now people would say Ryan Sloan, but Kate Anderson was always laughable and always silly.

And look, Luis is going to have bad starts. We know that. Every pitcher is. Yeah, we'll see what his first start looks like on the road. I think that's going to be here in this angel series coming up. Sunday. Yeah, Sunday should be. Yeah.

So again, we'll see. You never know. Luis is going to have bad outings, just like George is going to have bad outings, just like Logan has already had a bad outing. Wu will as well, even though Wu's probably your best pitcher right now. Luis is rock solid. You know what you're going to get.

He's going to battle. He's going to compete. Even when he's not very good, he's probably going to find a way to give you five or six innings, even if he's going to give up six runs. He'll figure out a way to make that happen for you. And don't underestimate the value of that. So Luis Castillo,

maybe when I'll send on, the most underrated mariner of all time, which I guarantee you as a topic of conversation, conversation. We will have this winter for, you know, obvious and unfortunate reasons. And we'll probably have to bring Gary Hill on to help us out there. But, yeah, in terms of underrated merits like Mark Langston, Luis Castillo, Raulibanias. But I mean, Luis is great. And he has been absolutely worth every single penny. You paid him money wise. Absolutely every, every single prospect you gave up to get him. It is just one of Jerry's best trades. And he continued to show why last night. And I don't know, Luis has got one year left on his contract. So maybe this isn't the last year for Luis in Seattle. But if it is, I think fans need to enjoy it and start to show some appreciation for La Piedro because the dude is just a warrior. And he's kind of weird. He's kind of weird a little bit too, which makes him all the more fun.

Who did he through that absolutely disgusting slider against? Was that Bellinger? It was like an 01 slider they threw? I think so. I think it was. I was like, he's cooking. He's cooking these dudes today. It was awesome.

I read the stat for you, you know, when you took him as a flag player. Yeah. He was a, he was a guy who was on both of our list. I'm being sincere about that. He was, we were, we were both, which one of us is going to take him first was my only question. But I read you that stat where the first like until August 15th, he had like a 310 ERA. And then he had a three start stretch where he had an ERA over. 10 and then the last month of the regular season he's a r a was sub two like the dude's good he's

really good at pitching and he's on an extremely affordable contract and he's so durable and all that like lees is awesome and we probably we haven't probably given him the the respect he's due but i know we've given him a lot more respect than some of you so shame on you shame shame um Yeah, the final stateline for Castillo on Monday night, seven strikeouts, two walks, no hit or no runs, two hits on 95 pitches, just three hard hit balls. By the way, the two hits were fly balls that should have been caught. Yeah. And then again, there's like the miscommunication with Randy and Revis and Donovan where Rebos drops the ball. Yeah, that should be Randy's ball.

That leads to, you know, a higher pitch count in that inning. there was one other thing right trying to remember what it was but then he found a couple ways to also to kind of make up for that where he he picked off who did he pick off a jazz that he picked off jazz got picked off today

yeah I know he got picked off today but they picked remember Nailer had the tag and he told Dan to challenge yeah yeah yeah yeah he kind of almost threw it down the line but because of like where the throw was it might have been cabby actually I think it was Yeah, it was Cabiero, I'm pretty sure. Yeah. And I think that kept Castillo's pitch count of 86 to end in the inning,

and that allowed for him to be able to pitch in the sixth inning. Yeah, which is important because, you know, there were spots where the Mariners' bullpen was a little thin. Today was not one of them. What time you mentioned this? It continues just kind of like, it's like an itch under my skin. I'm like, why? Tell me why. Tell me why.

Nothing but Okay, we can't get them on up this. Tell me why. Yeah. So this has been an episode of Locked on for sure. Yeah, tomorrow.

You've got Backstreet Boys reference in there. Tomorrow again, we'll talk more about like some of the lineup changes that we would at least entertain. We'll talk we'll probably talk about Luis Castillo Maris Hall of Amber a little bit. And again,

the Colt Emerson, we do have some new details on that. Probably something about that as well. Probably also talk more about Kate Anderson, Ryan Sloan, starting in Arkansas, because that is significant. Sure. If you guys had, you know, ask some better questions on Tuesday, we might have had a leftover question or two we could have gotten to. That's right.

It's your fault. It's your fault. Actually, it's his fault. Am I pointing the right way, Ty? Yeah, you are. You are. Okay. It's the opposite way on my screen, but whatever.

You also kind of gave yourself a finger mustache when you did that. It is his fault because he didn't put the question out until late. But anyways, Mailbag Monday will be back on Monday this week. I decided I didn't like that. That whole format. We might do it a little bit differently though where we might carve out at least a segment for us

to talk about some things on the weekend. Yeah. So before we get into questions, so Mailbag Monday might look a little bit different. We're going to workshop some things. Maybe if they don't play on. Maybe if they don't play on a Monday, we'll just do mailbag Tuesday and Monday will just be full

recap of the weekend or something like that. Sure. Sure. Yeah. For next week, we're going to do mailbag Monday on Monday, but we're probably going to carve out a segment, you know, which for us is like 15 minutes. So. Now, because this episode definitely needed to be longer than it already is. I've been staring at that thing behind your head all episode long and I'm wondering what it is. No, other way. Other way. It's like, yeah, that thing in front of the, I think it's like a, no, no, no. this thing it says like this is like

yeah that's right it's called a call back folks yeah that guy just exited Seattle with two or three yeah that thing yeah yes this is one of my better finds at the savers

in Isoqua on the way to the game a couple years ago this is a boony box star okay there you're on the original packaging nice never been open yeah nice that's cool

all right So we got Backstreet Boys, we got Booney Boxcar. Any other references you want to get off before we get out of here? This guy, who by the way did not have a good series. The Mariners handled him. So it's kind of a shame that they didn't, you know, do better than one and two. But that's what happens when your two, three, and four guys can't hit. And and and.

Dan Wilson can't, man. manager bullpen although that really wasn't an issue. He said the thing. He said the thing. It really didn't come into play for any of the games, like the results, but he still found a way to make me complain about his bullpen management a little bit.

A little bit. You mentioned it four times and then I just I just talked to you to mention a fifth time for why you would get Munoz up and then not use him when he hasn't pitched since Saturday. And he's not going to pitch tomorrow. He gave him almost a full week off. Yes. And then, of course.

course Chris Will gives up a run because of course. Of course. Marys baseball. Again, tell me why. Tell me why. That's going to do it for a show. Thank you so much for joining us here on the Locktime Marys podcast.

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