Locked On Mariners - Daily Podcast On the Seattle Mariners - Why Mariners Fans Should Feel Encouraged as Long Road Trip Nears End

Episode Date: April 22, 2025

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Mayors kick off a three-game set with the Red Sox today at Fenway Park. But before we talk about that, let's close the book on the Maris Series win in Toronto. Colby, and by the way, folks, Colby is in the middle of a blackout right now and using a hot spot on his phone. So if he's a little laggy today, that's why. But Colby, what were your takeaways from that series in Toronto? Yeah, the offense is carrying the boys to victories because the starting pitching sure isn't, which is not a sentence I would think we would have been said a couple weeks ago. Yeah.

Yeah, it's true. Like right now, the biggest obstacle for the Seattle Mariners to overcome is their starting pitching, which is just nuts that we've even reached a point here. But that's where we are. And I think, you know, there are a couple ways to look at it. You could either look at it as, wow, that's, you know, really lucky that the Mariners offense happens to be good at a time where they're pitching is terrible. And that's going to, you know, come crashing down here sooner rather than later. or you could look at it and say like, well, look, we know the pitching is better than it's been so far. Like, we just know there's too much talent.

And the offense doesn't need to be this good, which I believe right now they're, I don't know where it stands after yesterday's games, but I believe they entered yesterday fourth and WRC Plus. And keep in mind, a vast majority of their games still have been played at Team Mobile Park, which suppresses offense more than any other ballpark in baseball. So, yeah, I think you can look at it either way. I personally, I would say that, you know, we know that the starting pitching is way more talented than the production they're actually putting out there right now. And it's not like you're asking these guys to do anything they haven't done before.

So I think the big takeaway is that, you know, hey, the offense right now is carrying a little bit. And thank goodness it's good early in the year. And your pitching is not, which is kind of the inverse of what we thought. But all that considered, you know, you're being 12 and 10 and you're right there in the thick of things in a, mediocre American League to be nice. I think is really a positive thing. And yeah, the pitching will eventually get back to its, you know, top five self sooner rather than later.

And you just have to hope that the offense is probably not going to be this good, but can they be average to above average for most of the rest of the season? And if that's the case, and I think it'd feel pretty good about the Mariners' chances in the next 140 games. I look at it as a positive, especially there were a couple times last year where it just felt like everything was going wrong. And, you know, so far this year, it's like, okay, the rotation is nowhere near what it needs to be for you. And, you know, if you told anyone that heading into the season, you go, oh, my God, they've only, have they only won like four games five games like how bad did it get no they're they're 12 and 10

because the the offense is actually picking up the slack the bullpen is picking up the slack like the two biggest question marks heading into the season have actually been your strengths so far when your supposed strength is is laboring a little bit right now um that's going to happen over the course of a season uh so there's plenty of time for this rotation to get it together i think they will. I think this is ultimately going to still be the driving force of this team. I'm not being fooled by anything that I've seen in these first 22 games.

And that's just, you know, that's just how baseball goes, right? That's how the season goes. There's just so much time in a regular season that things are just, you know, things are going to be one way and then, you know, another in a couple weeks and then it just goes back

and forth and back and forth. And you just kind of hope that, you know, in the times where things kind of dip for you in one aspect of your team that another aspect of your team is able to carry that and that's what's happening right now and that's a good thing and that's what you need you know if you're going to be able to make the playoffs and try and make a run so yeah so overall I look at this as a positive um I don't think that this is something that's going to carry throughout the entire season on both fronts I don't think the offense is this good I also don't think the starting rotation is this bad so um yeah um I felt

pretty encouraged overall by what we saw in Toronto uh that you know going into a building that's incredibly hostile. Your pitchers don't, well, particularly, you know, Logan Gilbert and Luis Castillo don't give you what you needed out of them. You know, Brian Wu had had 14 hard hit balls against him. Didn't get a strikeout until like the fourth or fifth inning, but at least he was able to give you seven. And that, I mean, you look, you know, in hindsight now on how the next two games went,

that was so huge for the rest of the series. being able to save the bullpen and Casey Lawrence being the only guy that had to throw out of the bullpen on Friday night. But I mean, we wasn't particularly good either on Friday. So like you really didn't get, you know, a ton of help out of your rotation. Those and any of those three games. And you were able to survive it. And you were able to get a series win. And you're able to punch back. That's what we saw in Cincinnati. You were able to punch back. It's really encouraging to see. And it's encouraging to see that this team has some fight in it when things. go sideways didn't feel like they had that the last couple of years so yeah so i i think that

overall is is huge this team so far kind of reminds me of 201 and 22 in that in that regard yeah it's probably more talented though um yeah i i think the one of the fun things about this offense is that it's it's kind of a little bit of everybody you know pitching in now cow's on an insane run and obviously he's the driving force right now but also you You look at it and every player has contributed in some way or another, even if they're not actually putting up great numbers right now. You know, Randy has had a ton of big hits early this year. Julio has certainly had his moments as well.

And obviously, Cal's the driving force here now. Dylan Moore, you get him on the road on the East Coast. And all of a sudden, he's a different player. He's clubbing homers off a left, he's left and right. And you've even gotten some pretty good production from guys like Miles Mastrooney and guys like Ben Williams and guys who weren't, you know, two months ago we weren't talking about as being like, oh, they need to contribute or you're in trouble.

You know, even Leo Rivas is giving you some good at-bats. Like, you're getting a lot of these little contributions from just about everybody. Like, I can't think of a player who hasn't helped you, like, at all, Donovan Salano. But, yeah, yeah. I mean, like, even Rowdy had a big series and, you know, good, he needed to because he sucks, but whatever. He's sitting right now. So keep doing your thing, Rowdy.

Yeah, like even Garver's had a couple really good at bats and a couple RBI and JP after a really slow start. He's looked much better over the last 10, 15 days. So it is nice that it's not just like, oh, well, Julio is August Julio and he's just dragging the offense along for the ride. It's close because Cal is basically on August Julio stuff right now. But like he's getting other production around him, including guys like Jorge Polanco, who we were. you know, not sure what was, what that was going to look like this year. And guys like Ben Williamson and Miles Mastermindy and Leo Rivas and Dylan Moore, like these role players are playing really good ball right now, which certainly helps.

And again, you know, they're doing this. And it is kind of a, it's obviously the driving force is Cal, but it is much more of a kind of a distributed offense. Everybody's kind of pitching in. Everybody's having at least good at bats. Everybody's willing to take walks. They're stealing bases. left and right.

And they're doing this without Victor Robles, who is supposed to be the catalyst of all of this and without Reimblis. And so, you know, it's not as though everything's worked out perfectly for them. Luke Rayleigh hasn't gone on a super hot stretch yet. And we know he's certainly capable of doing that as well. So I do think that, you know,

while we look at the offense and say like this level of run production isn't sustainable, it's probably not. I mean, they've been really good for 10, 12 games now. the idea that this offense is just going to crash back to being just bad like it was most of last year I think you make a pretty strong argument that what we're seeing now is certainly a high point but the low point isn't you know 2024 because there's a higher floor there because they do a lot of things better than they did last year like running the bases putting the ball in play and so far hitting home runs yeah I got a couple more thoughts on this series and just where the team is at in just a moment.

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$250 in bonus bets today you're listening to the locked on marries podcast so uh let's talk a little bit more about this past series on the weekend uh against the blue jays mayors take two of three they win the second and third games of the series. It's really incredible what this team is accomplishing in general, despite the rotation not being what you needed to be and also Julio not really being what you need them to be. Now, Julio has had a better start to the year than he has had in the past,

but he's been streaky. He hasn't had a particularly good road trip. He had a better day on Sunday. had the double to kick things off that almost found its way out of the park. I'm pretty sure that is like the best thing I've seen Julio do in person, by the way. I don't think I've ever seen, I don't think I've ever seen him hit an extra base hit until Sunday. I might be wrong on that, but I guess scoring a run in game one is just not on the list.

Yeah, you got it hit by. He also technically caught the final out of game two of the wild card. Yeah. Oh, were you there? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So maybe that's the, maybe that's the coolest thing I've seen Julio do in person. But yeah.

So yeah, you know, Julio isn't necessarily Julio right now. The rotation isn't the rotation that you were expecting. And it would be easy for this team to just kind of curl up in a ball and die, given everything that's happened, right? This is mostly the same team from last year. the off season went the way that it did and we know that the players feel some type of way

about that. And then they go into the season. They're what, three and eight, four and eight to start the year. They lose one of their biggest, you know, vibes guys and Victor Robles. They lose another everyday player and Ryan Bliss. The

rotation is not pitching the way it needs to, like all these things are going wrong, right? And it would be easy for, especially again, because this is pretty much the same group from last year and we saw how last year went it would be easy for them to just kind of like well they're their hands up in the air and just go that's it sounds like what you're saying is is that dan basically is using scott services players to have success so all the credit

goes to scott it sounds like what you're saying that's that's that's right that's right that's right scott service was done dirty which i mean yeah kind of yes um yeah but yeah uh yeah uh it's I'm looking at this all back to being a Scott service stand. No. But yeah, like I don't, I don't know if it's Stan. I don't know.

You know, it's probably a combination of everything, right? But it is nice to, uh, to see that despite all these things that have happened, that this, uh,

club is keeping it pushing right now. And, uh, they're playing really good ball. I mean, they're the hottest team in baseball over the last 10 games. Um, I don't know if anyone else is eight and two now after last night's games,

but, uh, yeah. Right. I think one guy here who deserves a lot of credit for keeping the vibes up, or however you want to phrase it. Yeah. I think we might be understating the importance of Randy a Roserena being here at the start of the year.

Yes. Because while his overall numbers aren't amazing, and by that I just mean mostly just as batting average. Yeah, just the average. Everything else is totally fine. He has had, I mean, we already think about it. But think about all the big at bats he's had just so far. the Grand Slam.

He had the home run to tie it in Cincinnati. He had the game winning walk. You had the big double to break the game open the other night. Like game tying home run against the A's on opening day. Right. Like he has really performed very well in these high leverage spots. And, you know, I mean,

his catch on Sunday might have kept the Blue Jays from getting back. Yeah, yeah, from getting back. Like I don't think the Mariners win that game. If Randy doesn't make that catch. And that's not an easy. catch. And Randy, you know, gets a lot of flack for his defense. And it's not great, certainly. I don't like anybody would argue it's great. But it's been fine. It's been fine this year. And he's stealing base. I think he's got six steals. Like he's running again. Uh, the power is already there. And he comes up with these incredibly big hits. And he is a he, he's not like an outspoken vibes guy, like a Victor Robles. But he brings this confidence and the swagger to these big situations. And he's the guy you want up there with the game on the line. Like that's the dude.

right now. And, you know, Cal is certainly on that list as well. But like to have that second or third guy who like, hey, look, Cal didn't get it done last year. That means it's over. This guy's going to strike out. This guy's not. And Randy's stepped up. And I think having him for a full season, or having him at the start of the season certainly is making the difference because he's already helped you significantly when, what, three or four games? Like you didn't do it single handedly. nobody does, but like his big hits are responsible for you winning three or four games that you might not have won otherwise. Maybe you still do, but you probably, I mean, you don't win the Houston game without him. Yeah. So yeah, I do think that Randy is a guy who like,

not being overlooked per se, but I think his contributions are being overshadowed a little bit by what Cal's done so far recently. But yeah, I think Randy being here for the entire year, he feels more, he seems more comfortable here. He seems more engaged. Him and Julio and Victor are apparently close and all that. And he's just stepped up in these big moments. So I think, you know, while Cal is easily the best player right now on the Mariners, like I don't think it's close.

Yeah. And therefore he is the most important. They're the same thing. Like I think Randy is probably like, I mean, if Cal is Batman, Randy's Robin. It's not Julio right now. And you need those guys. So I, I do.

think that we should be yeah can we can we just can we just say that like right now like Julio is the most talented player on this team by far right Cal five Cal is the most talented players in baseball yeah Cal is the best player on this yes yeah yes I think at the end of the year we know Cal is going to hit like 220 230 we know that he's going to walk enough to have a good on base he's going to hit home runs and he's going to go weeks at a time where he is running a 35 percent strikeout rate and what like I don't think the torpedo battle have turned him into the best player who's ever lived. Okay.

But Cal right now, I mean, look, he's not. He's not, like, I think Cal is who he is and who he is is already kind of a fringe MVP candidate. When you consider everything he does that doesn't get, you know, just he can't be substantiated in numbers.

Like, he's already that guy. Could he have a breakout year, the one breakout year where he pushes it? And all of a sudden he's a, he's a eight win catcher. sure yeah that that's possible but i think it's end of the day like you enjoy this hot streak now and you know that eventually it's going to end and he's going to fall back and then he'll surge

again and he's a streaky hitter a lot of these mariner's hitters hitters are streaky yes and that is kind of the one flaw here they don't really have a lot of like just like consistent performers they really need a nathaniel low randy has been like randy's been the one dude like he had the bad series in san francisco but even in that series he had the the game time hit on in the Sunday game. But I think outside of that's consistently good all year. Yeah, but Polo's not getting in the lineup enough right now.

Right. I mean, he can't even face left-handed pitching right now. And he can't do anything but DH against right-handed starters. Like so his value is limited because of that. But yeah, I mean, this team could really use like a Nathaniel Lau or Lowe,

sorry. Yeah, yeah. He used a guy like him. They could use like 20-22 polo who's just like consistently good against left, D-righty, blah, blah, blah, blah. Like, and every player's going to, you know, ebb and flow. There's going to be hot streaks and cold streaks for everybody.

But, like, the Mariners have a lot of guys who they're cold streaks. You're sitting there watching them like, is this guy even a major leaguer? Like, eesh. So right now. I would be stunned of, I would be stunned if Nathaniel Lowe wasn't a mariner this year. I would put him number one. Like, if you told me like, hey, the Mariners are trading for one player, you have to put your, you know, your monthly. salary on the Mariners acquiring one player this summer who you putting it on I would put it on low well it's just we we know that they tried to trade for him when he was with the Rangers first base is a massive issue for them right now the nationals are not going to be good no yeah you get him for a year and a half which Jerry likes he prefers to get the guys with the club control yeah he's a lefty which this lineup could really use he's basically left-handed tie France he's hitting really well right now by the way

Yeah. So it's like a 139 WRC plus. He's good against lefties and righties. There's no splits. There's no platoon splits whatsoever. And I think the Mariners had like a really good, like they were going to pay the freight for low if Texas was willing to trade him in division. And it just sounds like they weren't. So like they just didn't even get an opportunity. But it sounds by all accounts that they really like him.

They think he'd be a great fit in the lineup and at T. Mobile Park. I tend to agree. and he was almost certainly going to be available this July, maybe even sooner, who knows. But yeah, yeah, we're, that's besides the point. Let's get there before we decide whether Lowe makes any sense or not. I mean, I mean, Nathaniel Lowe probably doesn't make a lot of sense of your 43 and 51, you know. Sure, sure, sure.

But again, if this team is winning, I'd be stunned if Nathanielo wasn't a, wasn't a mirror. I don't know about stunned because you can never like this player's always less likely. But, you know, yeah, like, if they make a significant move at first base and it's not Nathanielo, I would be pretty surprised by that. You're listening to the Lockdown Marrace podcast. So any final thoughts on what we were talking about or do you want to talk about the Boston series? I mean, overall, the road trip, they could get swept in Boston and that'll suck, but it'll still be an acceptable road trip winning two to the three series and winning four out of nine on, you know, when you go on the East Coast road trip with only one day off, especially considering how. just bad if you want to be generous mediocre the starting pitching's been on this trip like i think it's already a successful road trip if you go into boston and and you win even one i think it's a really like a great road trip i don't i don't know that's but if you win another series in boston i

think you're looking at you know a great road trip that really could set you up uh and can you know be a catalyst to you kind of taking control uh of this league uh heading into may so Yeah, it's already been a good road trip overall in Toronto. It really did feel like, you know, if you could win one of these three series and not get swept in any of them, you could go four and five and get back home. That would be a really solid road trip early in the year. And they have an opportunity to do better than that. And that's pretty cool.

And it's thanks to the offense, which is, again, not something I thought would be saying a month ago. Yeah, yeah. So Red Sox coming into the series, 13. 11 Brian Bayo is making his season debut I don't know what he was dealing with Do you know? No But yeah he's making his season debut We've seen him a couple times

We know the deal with Brian Bayo Is this going to be another Crazy high scoring series at Fenway Park? Because I mean like Probably Yeah it feels like every time the Mariners go to Fenway It's just the most unhanging game. I feel like there's been a couple times where the mayor is like

abrupt for like six or eight runs to start the game and then they wind up losing like 11 to 8 or something. Yeah. Yeah, let me let me. Yeah, I'm pretty sure like last year, the Red Sox scored like 14 in one of the games and the Marys scored 10 in another one of the games. Yeah.

And then there was like the, yeah, there was the three to two game. the extra in this game. I think Randy hit his first home run as a mariner at Finway to make it like 11 to 2. It was, yeah, because remember, yeah,

Gilbert was pitching and then a couple of calls. Yeah, a couple of calls didn't go his way and then he just kind of lost it. Yeah. It's the one time we've seen Logan Gilbert kind of be like, get me the hell off off this mouth. I don't want to be here anymore. Yeah.

So, yeah, let's look here. So the last six games played at Fenway Park between the Mariners and the Red Sox have ended in scores of 10 to 1 Mariners. 9 to 4 Red Sox, 12 to 3 Red Sox 14 to 7 Red Sox 10 to 6 Mariners. And then a three to two extra innings win for the for the Red Sox. You're telling me the Marins I won two of the last. last six in Fenway. Yeah.

I never would have predicted that. And they won them by a combined score of 20 to seven. So let's be realistic here. You're probably losing on getaway day. It's Garrett Crochet. Yeah. Now you're countering with Brian Wu. Right.

And to be fair, you already beat Terrick Scoobel on a getaway day game. They had no business winning. So like, could they do it again? Sure. Baseball. It's weird. right. I mean, they beat Crochet last year. Again, stranger things happen. The offense is in pretty good place right now. Fenway Park, who knows that that's a ridiculous ballpark. So you never know

with any of these games, but yeah, you're probably a heavy underdog as much as you can be in a single baseball game in April on Thursday. So you really do want to win these first two of your planning on winning the series. But yeah, I think, you know, Fenway sucks. Like, it's an overrated ballpark in general. The history is incredible, and I appreciate all that. But it's a terrible ballpark. It's not a great fit for Seattle.

Like, they're not really well built to win in Fenway Park. And, you know, Boston last year, at least in the first series, they really figured out how to pitch to Seattle. And Seattle kind of had to adjust. And it really set the book on the Mariners' offense in the first half of the year. And they couldn't counterpunch. And so, yeah, Boston's not a particularly great matchup for Seattle, particularly in Fenway Park. So, yeah, I'm a little concerned about this series because, again, you're facing Crochet on Thursday.

Hancock is starting on Wednesday. Like, you want to talk about a match made in hell? Emerson Hancock pitching in Fenway Park. Oh, my God. Yeah. now great American ballpark also not a great situation for Hancock to pitch in but also but also the Reds were like literally the worst offense

in baseball heading into that series so I know they got McLean and Hayes back but yeah yeah it's Red Sox offense is a lot better than the Reds offense now I know the Reds just scored 24 against Orioles which oh my God but yeah I mean to be fair they scored like what six plus runs against you twice so yeah and by the way Ellie Ellie's just making these insane plays defense I don't know if you've seen them but the mayor's uptown Ellie de la Cruz is all of a sudden a gold glove shortstop he locked in he locked in yeah yeah so uh you're welcome Jeff yeah we fixed Ellie de la Cruz for you um

but yeah like you know this red Sox lineup it's you know it's duran it's Devers, it's Bregman, it's, Willi or Brayu's off to a great start, Christian Campbell. Yeah. This is a, this is a pretty good team. I mean, this is a team that I picked to win the ALE East,

I believe. Sure. And they're, they're struggling, aside from, you know, the series they just won against the White Sox, which does that count? I mean, yes,

it counts. like, are they playing a real baseball team? Like, kind of. Not really. I mean, in the sense that they all have gear and their names are on the back of their uniforms and they're all collecting a paycheck, sure. Sure. I don't know, a month or two from now when the Mariners lose two or three to the white socks.

But. Don't you put that evil on me, Ricky Bobby. Yeah. But yeah, Hancock going on Tuesday or sorry, Wednesday and having to face crochet on Thursday. I don't love their odds to win this series. It's one of the few times where I look at the pitching matchups and I go, yeah, it feels like you need to win tonight. Yeah, it feels like you need to win tonight. You have Bryce against Bayo. Right. I'm not sure what the specific numbers are against Bayo for the Marys, but I feel like they've struggled against him. Yeah, I feel like he's been pretty good against you. I know he's got good stuff in general. So, but again, at the end of the day. This is baseball being played in Fenway Park. Literally anything can happen. Yeah. That is, like I said, it is a joke of a ballpark that is, you know, probably deserves to be like a historical landmark status should never be torn down type of thing.

But it is not a serious ballpark with the doubles monster and the pesky pole and like just the lack of foul territory down the lines and the huge gaps in left center and right center field and the triangle. it's just a ridiculous ballpark and it just I can't like yeah every time I see it on TV I just get and I'm like gross like this yeah

the marriages are not well equipped right now to in theory so they've actually so they've faced Bayo four times 22 and a third innings combined over

the course of 2023 and 2024 they've actually handled him fine he had a 4993 FIP against them

last year 407 FIP in 2023 they've homered off of them three times nine combined earn runs

seven doubles so 10 extra base hits off of him out of 23 total hits so yeah again like I said, we'll see.

The Fenway series every year is one I'm just like, if you don't get swept, it's a good series. Yeah. It doesn't matter how good or bad the Red Sox are. I know traditionally they're good, especially for the last two decades, but like it doesn't matter.

I just, the mayor's going to Boston. Hopefully they can find a way to salvage a win out of that series. It's just how I feel. And I don't know if the numbers are involved. I don't know what like their record is in Seattle or in Boston over the last 10 years.

for all i know it's one of their better places but like i don't i know i don't feel that way when i go to houston i know i don't feel that way when i you know had to even yankee stadium but fenway park man it just ugh starting to feel that way about detroit too by the way uh i'm pretty sure it's been a little while since they won their their last series at fenway pretty sure switch had this a few days ago because he also mentioned um uh you know how how long it had been since the marries won a series in Rogers Center. I can't find it, but I think it has been a little while since they won a

series in Fenway, maybe three, four years. So, hey, I mean, they got the monkey off their back, you know, at Rogers Center. So why not make it happen at Fenway Park as well? If they're able to do that, I mean, yeah, that's a hell of a road trip,

especially considering all the things that we talked about over the course of the show. And just where this team is at right now. But yeah, if they're able to go back to Seattle with a five and four road trip or better and then face the marlins and two against the angels before heading back on onto the road for a intra-divisional road trip that would be awesome be really cool so we'll see how it goes yeah like like colby said anything can happen at this small park it's going to be crazy it's going to be weird because the mirrors are weird and the mirrors are weird and the mayor is especially this year feel incredibly weird and they've won a lot of weird games to start this year. That's going to do it for our show.

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