Locked On Mariners - Daily Podcast On the Seattle Mariners - Thoughts Following Mediocre First Week of Mariners Baseball

Episode Date: April 4, 2024

It was a mediocre first week of baseball at best for the Mariners, resulting in three wins and four losses—the last of which being the most brutal. Ty and Colby recap the struggles that plagued Seattle in its first seven games of the year, discuss what the team's identity is and will be, and then switch gears with a look at the organization's exciting minor league rosters.Ask us questions!Follow the show on Twitter: @LO_Mariners | @TyDaneGonzalez | @CPat11Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors!RobinhoodRobinhood has the only IRA that gives you a 3% boost on every dollar you contribute when you subscribe to Robinhood Gold. Now through April 30th, Robinhood is even boosting every single dollar you transfer in from other retirement accounts with a 3% match. Available to U.S. customers in good standing. Robinhood Financial LLC (member SIPC), is a registered broker dealer. Amazon Fire TVFire TV recently created Fire TV Channels to deliver a constant supply of the latest videos from your favorite sports brands, all for free. That includes all of us at Locked On and most of the big pro leagues and college conferences as well. To Learn More, visit www.amazon.com/LockedOnFireTV PrizePicksGo to PrizePicks.com/lockedonmlb and use code lockedonmlb for a first deposit match up to $100! eBay MotorsFrom brakes to exhaust kits and beyond, eBay Motors has over 122 million parts to keep your ride-or-die alive. With all the parts you need at the prices you want, it’s easy to bring home that big win. Keep your ride-or-die alive at EbayMotors.com. Eligible items only. Exclusions apply. eBay Guaranteed Fit only available to US customers.GametimeDownload the Gametime app, create an account, and use code LOCKEDONMLB for $20 off your first purchase. FanDuelNew customers, join today and you’ll get TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS in BONUS BETS if your first bet of FIVE DOLLARS or more wins. Visit FanDuel.com/LOCKEDON to get started. FANDUEL DISCLAIMER: 21+ in select states. First online real money wager only. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable free bets that expires in 14 days. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit FanDuel.com/RG (CO, IA, MD, MI, NJ, PA, IL, VA, WV), 1-800-NEXT-STEP or text NEXTSTEP to 53342 (AZ), 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-9-WITH-IT (IN), 1-800-522-4700 (WY, KS) or visit ksgamblinghelp.com (KS), 1-877-770-STOP (LA), 1-877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY), TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN) Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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this episode. And it is the first off day of the season for the Mariners, and that could not come at a better time because brutal ate nothing loss yesterday to the Guardians where nothing, absolutely nothing, went right for your Seattle Mariners. We're going to talk about that one and also discuss some minor league rosters. Colby appropriately got the red light going on to reflect both of our moods following that game yesterday, a game in which you and I, Colby, did not have anything good to say and therefore did not do our postgame show as initially scheduled. So we've had some time now to dissect it a little bit more, to digest it. How do you feel about that one and how do you feel overall about this first week of Mariners

baseball? Yeah, it's been an underwhelming first week. first week, I think, is the fairest term. Disappointing, not so much because they're three and four. I mean, three and four is a totally fine record. If that's the worst week you have all year,

you're probably winning 100 games. Like, you know, the problem is not the record. It's kind of how we've arrived at it. And this series is even more so that the Boston series, pretty much be described by one word, and it's sloppy. Like, they were just not, they didn't play clean baseball once in any of these games.

They were fortunate that they won one of them because, you know, you go back in game one, there were all the base running mistakes. You know, Munoz hangs a slider and all of a sudden it's a closer game than it needs to be, blah, blah, blah, but whatever, you know, that was your best game by far. And then last night you have a couple of errors. You have, you know, you hang in a pitch. Castillo just loses command after the third inning for about a nine batter stretch. you know, offense couldn't get anything going.

They were bad. And then you go to yesterday and it's just chaos and not a good, not the good one, not the good chaos either. It's just guys running into each other, you know, missing cutoff guys, throwing the ball around, like, you know, Kirby's hitting dudes on 02 pitches. And then the offensive approach from yesterday's game looked like, hey, let's get on the plane and let's get out of here as fast as we can. So it was bad.

It was very sloppy baseball. We know sloppy baseball is incredibly difficult to watch. So I think, you know, a lot right now, a lot of the focus is on the offense and their struggles and the defense, particularly the last couple days, which is fine. I don't think that's something we shouldn't be talking about. But I think when you try to explain away the George Kirby outing and the Luis Castillo outing of the last two days, it'd be like, well, they didn't get any help defensively. Like, I mean, yeah, they didn't get a lot of help. Sure, that's fair.

But they still gave up the hits. They still gave up the home runs. They still gave up the doubles. They still hit dudes. They still didn't put guys away on 02 counts. Like, they are responsible. They are most of run prevention. So, yeah, you know what?

Did Kirby get some bad bad bit luck yesterday? Yeah, sure. Did his defense let him down at times? Yes, absolutely. Was he good? No. not anywhere close to it. We talk about this all the time.

Kirby is going to have two, three, four outings like this every year. And this is what's going to prevent him from really stepping into the ace category is that we know what the game plan is for teams against Kirby. They're going to try and jump him early in counts because he's going to throw a lot of strikes. And, you know, he doesn't have amazing stuff. So if his control and command is off even by a little bit, it's very hitable, mediocre, not mediocre. It's very hitable stuff. And because he doesn't have really a swing and miss pitch right now, he doesn't have a pitch that you can reliably get whiffs with,

you know, every single time he goes out there. You get, you get aggressive early in the counts. You're never going to get to two strikes. You're probably going to get some fast balls. And, you know,

you can probably, if you're a team that is built not to strike out, like you're not a swing and miss team like Cleveland, you can put a lot of balls in play and you're going to do damage off of Kirby. Because, again, he doesn't have, you know, elite stuff. It's good stuff.

It's elite command. And that's what helps the stuff play up. So, you know, Kirby's going to get jumped like this again at some point this year. It's what teams do. And sometimes it backfires on the team on the offense because they're just handing this guy easy outs, really quick outs. And he's able to get deep in games as a result. But this isn't anything new. This isn't something we couldn't have forced him coming.

We know what the game plan is against guys like George Kirby. So, you know, Kirby wasn't good. He didn't get much help, but he wasn't good. Both can be true. Castillo didn't get a ton of help, but he wasn't good. Castillo looked like a number five yesterday or Tuesday. Gilbert didn't even look like that. I mean, if you go into a three-game set and Emerson Hancock gives you the best start,

that's not a good thing. Like regardless of how good Emerson Hancock is or how bad you think he is, it doesn't matter. Like Emerson Hancock giving you the best outing in a series, you're going to lose that series. and you'll be darn lucky if you don't get swept. That's the difference between these levels of pitchers. And Castillo and Kirby, they didn't get the job done.

They weren't the only ones, but it starts there. If you're going to be a run prevention team, you have to pitch. You have to play better defense than we've seen. And the offense has to give you something to work with. It doesn't have to score six, seven runs, but you can't average two and a half runs a game over a week and expect to do any better than three and four.

which is what they are, and they're lucky that they're three and four to be quite frank, because they have not played good baseball at all. You know, they haven't put together a complete game. Probably the game on Monday was probably the closest to a complete game that they played all year. And even that, they had some base running blunders and mistakes. And so, yeah, still have played a clean game. And it's not going to get any easier tomorrow. They get Freddie Peralta, you know, for the brewers.

So, you know, it's just, it's sloppy baseball and not just sloppy, like they're striking out a lot, which they are, you know, they have errors, which they do. It's just the little things. It's, you know, thrown away at bats. It's, you know, overswinging on a 2-0 pitch when, you know, you're down by four. And the pitch is like four inches outside and you're just trying to do damage. It's making bad base running decisions. It's all of it. All of it is goes to sloppy baseball.

and it's not always shown in the box score with walks and airs and stuff we associate with it. But yeah, it's been a disappointing first week. But it is only one week. And we have 155 of these things left to go. Like we're not even at half time of week one of an NFL season. Like we have plenty of time to turn this around. And by the way, it's not like the Mariners are down seven to six with two minutes left in the first half of the first. game, right? Like plenty of time to turn this around. There's nothing that we're going to take from

these games that are going to draft or nothing we should take from these games that should drastically alter how we view this team going forward. But yeah, if you're not willing to acknowledge that it's been a disappointing, you know, first week of Mariners baseball based on expectations, then I don't think you're having a genuine conversation with the fan base because, yes, You have to acknowledge when things go poorly, you point them out. And that doesn't necessarily mean that, you know, you're done or, right, seasons over anything like that. Just acknowledge bad play.

Acknowledge the frustration that the fan base rightly feels right now. While also acknowledging it's so early, we just don't know anything despite what you want to try and glean from a seven game stretch. It's just, it's not worth your time. It's been sloppy across the board, right? every facet of the game for the Marrars for the most part has been sloppy at one point or another over the course of these seven games. Every single facet of this Marrers roster has contributed to the struggles at one point or another

over the first week. I want to get into this team's identity a little bit because you refer to it as a run prevention team, which it is on paper. The strength of this team is pitching. But has it actually been built that way to reflect that properly? we'll get into that in just a little bit. But first, a reminder of this episode of the Lockdown Marys podcast is brought to you by eBay Motors and Game Time. Passion, drive, and patience.

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March 25th to April 14th only download the game time app today last minute tickets lowest price guaranteed and you're listening to the locked on mariner's podcast thank you again for making us your first listen and just a reminder that lockdown has launched the first ever national sports 24 7 streaming channel on youtube and amazon fire tv and the free fire tv channel channel's app. Locked on Sports Today is here for you 24-7 covering the top sports stories of the day with the local experts of locked on plus our national shows covering every league find locked on sports today now available on the free fire TV channels app and before we get back into the swing of our show here I just want to address something real quick and it ties into the conversation that we just had and we're going to continue to have over the course of the show that's this has been very frustrating to watch right no one. one's denying that. We're all very frustrated. Again, like I said earlier on in the show, we didn't even do yesterday's show because Colby and I were very frustrated and we didn't have anything to say, really, following that, I'm just going to say it, embarrassment of a game

that the mayor has played yesterday. That, however, does not give you or anyone an excuse to say things like Luis Castillo should cut his hair, or Julio Rodriguez is fat and lazy. I saw several of those comments on our last couple of episodes because we didn't have an episode yesterday. So people went to other shows of ours or even to some of our community notes to let their frustrations out. And some of those comments, some of those examples that I gave you were present in those comments. And I quickly and swiftly deleted those and removed all of those users from our channel, which essentially means you can still post on the channel, just no one's going to see it.

You are posting into an endless void, and that will be you next if you do that as well. We have a zero tolerance for that in our community. Look, I get it, right? This team has been a joke for most of our lives, has been a joke for most of its existence, but that doesn't give us or anyone an excuse to act like absolute freaks about baseball.

It's baseball at the end of the day. We don't have to get personal with it. That has no place in our community whatsoever. We will not tolerate that. Okay. So set my piece. Getting off my soapbox now. Colby, let's talk a little bit about this team's identity.

Because again, you've referred to it today. I saw you refer to it as this on Twitter yesterday as a run prevention team. And again, on paper, that's what this team is. The strength of this team is its pitching. But when you look at the way that this defense has, been built with Dom Canzon and Mitch Hanager playing in the corners of your outfield for most of these games so far. By sacrificing defense for more offensive gain at second base with Jorge Polanco with all the question marks there are at third base going from A. E. E. E. E. E. Henni

Oswres to the platoon of Luis Arias and Josh Rojas. And it doesn't seem like the roster build so far has been reflective of being a run prevention team. What do you think of that? I think this really comes down to, you know, the philosophical question of how much of run prevention is pitching and how much is defense. You know, I think in Moneyball, they talk about this, and granted, this was back in 2001, 2002, but the A's estimated that about 5% of run prevention is defense. The rest is pitching. And, you know, obviously, you know, not everything that was true in 2002 is true in 2024, but. It is interesting you look at, you know, the two rosters and how did Oakland prevent runs? Was it their seller defense?

No, David Justice was running around out there. Jermaine Ty was running around out there. It was Zito and Mulder and Hudson and their great bullpen. And that's kind of what Seattle has here. So I'm of the belief, and again, I don't have numbers to back this up. I don't know if anybody does because defensive metrics are still such a work in progress that it's really hard to quantify this. but I'm of the belief that pitching roughly 90% of all run prevention is just pitching.

So the fact that if you go out and you try to build arguably the best pitching staff in baseball, yes, you are identifying as a run prevention team. That will be your strength. And when you have really good pitching like the Mariners do, at least on paper, you can actually take a little bit a few more risk defensively because your pitchers will work around it because they're good enough to, you know, not have 60-grade defense in left field, right? They'll make 50-grade work or 45-grade work because they're that good. They get a lot of soft contact.

They get a lot of strikeout. So to me, I think they're absolutely a run-prevention team. They're not 100% in on it. They're not trying, they're not interested in trying to win games two-to-one every single night. Run prevention teams that kind of go all in on it, like Kansas City. that can be really valuable. They can be really good. But we also saw the 2010 Mariners go hard into this run prevention idea,

and it's all about not allowing runs to score. And they lost 100 games. So there's no perfect way to build a team or anything like that. You know, you have to be willing to take risk here and there. You're not going to be, you know, elite at every single position. Not even the Dodgers are elite at every single position, although they sure try. So, you know, what is the identity of this team? it's the pitching and as a result

pitching is run prevention effort so this is a run prevention team so when I look at it and I say they're giving up six, seven runs, that's a bigger problem than the off night where they score two or one because this is a team that is built

in my mind to win a lot of games in which they score four or five runs. They're going to win a majority of those games because they're going to prevent four or five runs from scoring every night with their pitching and whatever they get from their defense. I don't think the defense is going to keep like is the defense going to take take this

pitching staff from top five to middle of the pack. No. Then it's still a run prevention defense or run prevention build. Right. So now let's talk about the identity of this offense because we know that they wanted to cut down on strikeouts. We know that they wanted to work on putting the ball and play more and they haven't really done that.

And again, it's one week, right? This happened in a, you know, random week. stretch in the middle of July. We're probably not talking about this as much as we are right now. But this is all the data we have so far. They've struck out a lot. They haven't put the ball in play a ton. And they've struggled as a result of that. Jerry Depoto offered his thoughts on the offense to the Seattle Times. I believe it was yesterday saying, quote, the unique part of the start to our season is we opened up against roughly six consecutive pitchers who all have exceptional ability to spend the ball.

And in some of those cases, exceptional ability to spin it and to locate it. And that's the thing that Bieber does as good as anybody. He went on to say in years past when our offense has struggled, it looks like an offense that is struggling. That's okay. This year, our offense, we're swinging at the right pitches. We're grinding through at bats. You know, this is the big leagues.

And the other guys are good, too. I think our at bat quality has been really good. So what do you think about, Jerry? what Jerry had to say in just this offense in general. He said literally nothing. Like he used 50 words to say zero. So. Some would say that he used 54 words,

Colby. Sure. Typical GM speak, like, because he doesn't want to be like, we're seven games in. Like, that is my,

like what's up with the offense. We're seven games in. That's what's up with the offense. So, but if he said that, you know, people would be really upset that he had the, nerve to question Mariner fans and why they're so upset.

Side note, Tristan McKenzie, not known as a guy who gets tremendous spin. So stretching the truth there a little bit, yeah. But yeah, I think the identity of this offense is yet to be determined. We don't know. And the reason we don't know is because right now your three worst hitters have been J.P. Crawford, Julio Rodriguez, and Horea Polanco. Do we think that none of those guys can hit? or is that really what we're going to, you know, dive into?

We think that Mitch Garver is going to hit a buck 80 all year. We think Cal Raleigh is going to, you know, not hit any dingers. He's just going to strike out and hit weak pop-ups. We think that's really what's going to happen. We think Luis Urias and Josh Rojas are going to have the best at bats on the team all year. No, we don't. We don't know what the, we don't know what the identity of this offense is yet because we don't have enough data.

Like when you look at guys like, Castillo and Herbie and Gilbert We have data on those guys in this ballpark for this team that show us this is about

what we can expect them to be. We don't know yet about Palanco. We don't know yet about, you know, what kind of year we're going to get

from JP or Garver, but if we look at their career numbers, they're a lot better than this. So I think everybody's constantly fearful or in some cases

they're hopeful that the Mariners have stumbled on another Colton Wong or AJ Pollock. It's just not the case. It just doesn't work like that, guys. All you can do is you put out the best players you can, the guys who have produced recently, and you go out there and you see what it looks like and you make your adjustments from there. But we're not even at the point where the team should be making major adjustments.

Like, what are you going to move J.P. Crawford down to nine because he's hitting a buck 50 through seven games? No. Like there's nothing to do here. So to me, I don't know what the identity of the offense. is I don't think that's a problem yet. I think specifically when it comes to the offense, you got to wait until everybody's getting at least 100, 150 plate appearances, because we just don't know.

Maybe Polanco just gets off to a slow start and he's really bad in all of April. Does that mean he can't hit 280 with, you know, 20 bombs from May on? No, of course he can do that. So it's just, you know, hand-wringing about the offense. Frustrating? Yes, absolutely. warranted sure panic like pure panic like oh my god they're not going to hit at all they're this is who they are they're only going to score one you know 1.5 runs a game and like come on come on

at least wait a couple of weeks at the very least and honestly you should wait about six weeks minimum before you kind of start to really panic about whether guys not going to come out of it but look at the track records look at what we thought about this offense 10 days ago those should still apply. Whatever you felt 10 days ago, that's how you should feel today. Doesn't mean you're not frustrated. It just means that you're not drastically altering your opinion on guys based off of 30 plate appearances. Because, again, if Julio went, you know, five for 32 in July, nobody would be like,

oh, yeah, Julio's struggling a little bit. Nobody would be like, oh, my God, can Julio hit? So let's just relax on that end a little bit. The identity of the offense will be reviewed. old end time. All right. All right. So let's move on.

Let's talk a little bit about the Mariners Minor League rosters, which have been all unveiled now. The travelers, the Aqua Sox, and I believe the nuts also get underway starting to morrow. And there's some really exciting rosters here to talk about, specifically that AA roster. We'll get into that in just a moment. But first, to remember.

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for the Arkansas Travelers, Colby. Now, you weren't here the other night. You were at the ballgame, but I got to talk to Ben a little bit about this. Now I want to get your take on this. Logan Evans starting the year down in double A we've heard a lot of hype about this guy Jerry was on our show and raved about him what do you think about them getting seemingly pretty aggressive in starting him in double A yeah it says to me that they think there is a good chance that Logan Evans can help them at the big league level this year that's what it says because if you don't think this guy is going to make his debut or has a chance at least to earn his debut in 2024. You're not starting him in AA.

You're starting him in Everett. And then he has to kind of blow everybody's doors off. But I think this is also an indication that the Mariners look at, you know, they're starting pitching depth after Brian Wu and they go, like we're one more injury away from things getting really bad. We better have somebody, you know, we better have somebody that can come up and, you know, make these starts for us. And so, you know, Evans is certainly,

guy who has a ton of helium. It's pretty surprising. I was expecting him to start in Everett. So it's only a one level jump. It's not, it's not like it's a bad, aggressive move, because Evans is a college pitcher. We know the stuff will play. Like, it's fine. He was probably going to end up at AA sometime relatively soon if he produced at Everett anyways. But yeah, it is still a bit of a surprise to look at the AA roster and see a guy who was, you know, five career games at Modesto. making a you know basically skipping the california and the northwest league at the same time to get to double a but that very clear anybody who starts to year at double a has a shot to impact the major league roster that's just how it goes you're one one level away from being a level

away like you you can make make up a lot of ground and we know that the mariners typically they don't send their top pitchers to triple a anyways so yeah so this is something to look out for here the Mariners needed a like an emergency start now if they needed to go to their seventh starter would they go to evans tomorrow no might they do it in june july if they need to yeah they might that's what that one tells me is that they think there's a shot that logan evans is making starts for them at some point this year which is you know really cool that a guy made that big of a jump and he's a relative unknown and the mariners think they found you know this diamond in the rough but it's also a little terrifying that they're they're counting on this this guy who had like a 9 ERA at University of Pittsburgh, you know, 14 months ago. They're like, yeah, this guy's going to pitch in the big leagues and we trust him. So a little concerning, a little exciting. But, you know, I know that the Mariners and the numbers the Mariners have on the pitch data, basically, of Logan Evans is to, to, you know, protect the person who told us this. I'll just say that they are quite bullish on Logan Evans and his stuff.

They are big fans of Logan Evans, and this is obviously a confirmation of that. Yeah, yeah. So Harry Ford and Cole Young also make the roster, no real big surprises there. Do you have any take on that? No, I expect Cole Young to be up. Assuming he performs at all,

I think Young could be up in middle of August. He won't get more than 60 days on the big. league roster, I can tell you that much. Because at 60 days, you are no longer eligible for a rookie of the year the following year. And at 59 days and under 130 plate appearances, you're still eligible for rookie of the year. So, you know, I think that the Mariners do value that PPI pick. And I think that getting young, you know, a cup of coffee at the big leagues this year. And again, we'll have to see how the team is playing where the weaknesses are, where the strengths are.

They just may simply not be room for Cole Young. on this roster, you might need a different player at a different position than Cole Young. So it's not a guarantee that he's up this year, but I think there's a pretty strong probability that he's up this year. And then, you know, Ford, this is kind of a challenge for him. Like, you know, we like the progress that's been made offensively or defensively, I should say. But, you know, we got to see a little bit more power. We got to see a little more out of the bat because, you know, right now Harry Ford is, is patient almost to a fault. Like he's just not. swinging at anything.

And that's cool because he's drawing walks, but the higher you go up in levels, obviously the better command the starters are going to have. So you're going to have to get more aggressive. You're going to have to put the ball and play more. So I think this is just more of a natural progression for these two. It's, you know, I would have been surprised if Ford had started the year in Everett.

I would have been mildly surprised if Young had started the year in Everett. But yeah, both in AA, They both have a shot to make their debut this year. I would be very surprised. If we saw Harry Ford at the big league level this year, I would not be surprised at all. We saw Cole Young. Aqua with Sox roster, kind of the lottery ticket roster.

For now. Interesting guys. Yeah, for now, right? Because that Modesto roster. We get down to Modesto. Yeah, the Modesto roster is stacked with a lot of really, really fun talent. A lot of teenagers. Including the big three.

They got drafted this past year. It's a really fun roster. But yeah, on the Aqua Sox roster, it's, you know, Colin Davis, Bill Knight, Victor LaBrata in the outfield, Axel Sanchez, Ben Williamson. And then, you know, the pitchers, you got like Michael Morales in there, Troy Taylor. So definitely some interesting arms on that roster. But yeah, the Modesto roster, what do you think about that roster? The Modesto roster? Yeah.

If you're in the Modesto area, get tickets early in the year because they're not going to be there for long. Yeah. You know, maybe a Tai Peter and Aden Smith stays down there all year, but Montes is getting, at least getting to Everett this year. You know, I imagine Farmel is getting to Everett this year. Like, that roster probably is going to look completely different right around the time of the draft. We're going to see a lot of these guys move up and maybe even before then. Like, if Laz has a good first couple of weeks, they're probably going to get aggressive with him. the kids like the actual first year first full year pro ball guys they they probably hold them back a little bit

and and you know just make sure they're comfortable make sure they repeat and all that stuff so yeah the modesto roster is stacked it's probably the most stacked roster of the of the four minor league rosters just in terms of raw talent but yeah it's it's a lot of fun there is going to be a ton of offense in that lineup Modesto is going to be a fun team to watch, but do it early because by May, June, July, like pretty much everybody that's super exciting or at least I would say 70% of them are going to be up in Everett. So if you're an Aqua Sox fan, you know,

sure, there's still players to watch in Everett right now. Williamson is a guy who's turning a lot of heads, for example, but you're probably going to get really excited about the Aqua Sox in June, July, somewhere in that range when you see Las Montez, and here comes Farmello and here comes, Aidan Smith, and, you know, you're going to get pretty excited about that Aqua Sox team in the second half. So first half, it's Modesto, second half, it's Everett.

Those are going to be the teams to watch. And then, hey, you know what, Tacoma? I know I know they're already playing and all that stuff. It's a pretty fun roster, too. There is a lot of speed on that Tacoma roster, a lot of athleticism with Claise and Bliss and Marlowe and Samad Taylor. I mean, it's a lot of fun. And hey, you know what?

maybe if you pick the right day, you'll get to see 2015 Sy Young Award winner Dallas Keikle pitching for the Tacoma Rainiers. That's right. That's right. Yeah. All right. Anything else before we get out of here? Why Dallas Keikle? Tommy Leone's still out there.

Why not? Why not? Why not? Hey, we can start up the Keikles Corner again. The heck we can. Which is totally not a rip-off. That pathetic knock-off. Remember when the Rangers did the universe? for you Darvish. Yeah, that didn't last long either.

You can't force these things, guys. You can't force these things. It's got to come natural. Kings Court was natural. All right. You just can't rip off the Kings Court. And that's why you're a little curvy corner or whatever. Dumb.

Not every pitcher needs their own cheering section. Not every pitcher earns their own cheering section. Yeah, that's the best way to put it. Yeah. So there's not a single pitcher on the Mariners staff right now who has earned their own. pitching section, cheering section. So now big maple, the maple grove, that had some legs.

Unfortunately, the maple tree fell down before it could really grow. May I recommend the Hancock block? The Gilbert Grove. Logan Lane. That's going to do it for a show. But before we get out of here, once again, a reminder that locked on has launched the first ever national sports 24-7 streaming channel on YouTube. Now it's also available on Amazon Fire TV and the free Fire TV channels app.

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