Locked On Mariners - Daily Podcast On the Seattle Mariners - Why the Seattle Mariners Chose NOT to Call Up Colt Emerson After Brendan Donovan's Injury

Episode Date: April 21, 2026

Ty and Colby react to the Mariners' 6-4 loss to the A's, discussing yet another head-scratching Dan Wilson decision, then dissect why the club chose not to promote Colt Emerson in light of Brendan Donovan's trip to the injured list. Click to learn more about the Everydayer Club! Join the Ahoy, Sailors Discord server! Check out our Patreon! Follow the show on Twitter: @LO_Mariners | @TyDaneGonzalez | @CPat11 Follow the show on Bluesky: @lockedonmariners | @tdg | @mlbcolby Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors! Turbo Tax Intuit TurboTax now has in-person locations nationwide. You can meet face-to-face with a real tax expert, and your documents get uploaded straight to your TurboTax app on the spot.  Visit https://TurboTax.com/local to find a store near you and book your appointment today. Indeed Listeners of this show get a $75 Sponsored Job Credit to help give your job the premium placement it deserves at http://Indeed.com/podcast Gametime Today's episode is brought to you by Gametime. Download the Gametime app, create an account, and use code LOCKEDON for $20 off your first purchase. Terms and conditions apply. FanDuel Today's episode is brought to you by FanDuel.Right now new customers can bet just five dollars and get two-hundred and fifty dollars in bonus bets if your first bet wins.Visit https://FANDUEL.COMto get started — Play Your Game.   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.

The Mariners suffered yet another frustrating loss last night. And once again, Dan Wilson's decision making was a big part of the story. We'll talk about that. Plus, Colt Emerson, not getting the call up in the light of Brennan Donovan's injury and more coming up here on the Lockdown Merrists podcast. Colby, hit it. You are Locked on Mariners. Your daily Seattle Mariners podcast. Part of the Locked on podcast network, your team every day.

Ahoy, Sailors. And it's Tuesday, April 21st, 20th. 26. My name is Tadangazales, and I'm joined as always by my co-cove-Patnod. And on today's show, we'll talk about the mayor is foregoing the opportunity to call up Colt Emerson as the corresponding move for Brendan Donovan's trip to the IL. We'll also discuss what went wrong for Emerson Hancock last night. But we'll start with everything else that went wrong last night. And Colby, I am tired. I am very, very tired. I am tired.

talking about Dan Wilson on the show and his decision making in these games, but he just continues to be a big story in a lot of these losses for the Mariners so far to start the 2026 season. Now, he wasn't the reason the Mariners lost last night. I think he was fairly down the list, but he was still part of the story. It starts, though, with the Mariners not capitalizing and not burying JT again when they had multiple opportunities to do so last night they went one for 12 with runners in scoring position that is going to kill you emerson ancock also had a three-neth

lead and we'll talk about him a little later on but he kind of let the game get away from him and he let the the aes get back into this one and then there's obviously the bullpen situation now i know a lot of people are also criticizing dan for that for going to casey like a mina and I'm not necessarily defending that decision. But I'm also, that's not really what I'm upset with Dan about because it's pretty clear they were down a couple of their high leverage guys last night. And Legamina was probably going to have to factor into that game at one point or another.

We can't have a discussion about like, who they have gone to Bizarro first instead of Legamina? Sure. But other than that, like I'm really like, that's not what I'm wanting to talk about here with Dan. What I want to talk about with Dan is the decision to once again burn Luke Braley for the sake of a righty on lefty matchup far too early and in a low leverage situation. This one's even more egregious to me than the one in San Diego on Thursday because at the very least that was a basis loaded situation.

you had an opportunity to tie, maybe even take the lead. Now, I think that's still ridiculous because you went to Connor Joe who hadn't played in eight days. I think that comes with its own set of issues there. They're both stupid.

Yeah, but this one was a fairly low leverage situation. It's a 3-3 ball game. The bases are empty. There's one out. Sure. Like Rob Reff Center could run into one, but you know like I know you're trying to get him on base and see if you can make something happen there

but still that's a fairly low leverage situation and the A's were using their only good lefty in their bullpen the only other lefty that they have had in their bullpen after Hogan Harris was a guy that they had just called up that day who I believe has an ERA that starts with nine now I think that's like in a couple of innings so like whatever but still like I don't think that's a guy that the A's are probably going to so long as that game stays close. So I feel pretty safe and assuming here that Rayleigh, you know, that spot in the lineup would have gotten another opportunity to get ready. And lo and behold, eighth inning comes around. Maris have runners at second and third, two outs.

And guess who gets the most important played appearance of the entire game? Rob Ruff Sider against Arrity. And again, if the A's, were willing to go to that other lefty. I think his name is Brady Basso. Just off the top of my head. That might be his name. I don't know.

Whatever. If they were willing to go to that guy, that probably actually works out for you pretty well. And look, you still have Rob Ruff Center on the bench that you can go to in that situation. So it's just a lack of feel for the game and for the situation

and having foresight. You know, for how the rest of the game, game is likely going to play out and like we all saw it right we all saw it you know i'm on i'm on social media during the game and and everyone's saying the same exact thing and sure enough what we all predicted is what happened yeah um you know dan likes to play checkers unfortunately he's entered a chess tournament and he's just completely outwitted and outmatched pretty much every night. I mean, I would venture to say that in totality, Dan Wilson's management has probably

cost the Mariners a full win. Maybe two, but probably one. He just kind of added up. And like you said, it's not, he's never like the main reason they lose the game. That's the players. I mean, the players have to perform and all that. But the contributions he makes, it's like 5% Dan here, 3% here, 10% here, those add up. Right? And eventually, over the course of a whole season, you start to add those to real wins and losses. And like, let's say hypothetically that Dan's cost his team one full game right now,

just based on all the decisions he's made that have backfired. They've all added up to net one win, negative one win. That doesn't seem like that much, but you multiply it by seven, because we're about a seventh of the way through the season. All of a sudden, that's seven wins. how many times of this Mariner team missed the playoffs by seven or less games in the last 10 years? Six times. Like, it doesn't sound like a lot, but it is.

They add up and they start to stack a little bit here and there. So, you know, it's just one of those things where it may not seem like that big of a deal. It may seem like we're being overly critical, but these things keep adding up and they keep adding up and they keep adding up. And at the end of the day, if you cost your team five games even, that's, five games is the difference between the playoffs and not. games is the difference between the division and a wild card it's the difference between home field advantage in a wild card sometimes like you can't ignore just because you like the guy you can't ignore all of these problems that keep coming up and this is a repeated mistake this is a lesson he should have learned you know last week not even a week ago he made the same critical

mistake and it's tough to know how much blamed to give them because we know that this is a collaborative effort it always has been and they get snowed everywhere but there's feel. There is an understanding. And by the just a general rule of thumb, never pinch hit before the seventh because that spot in the lineup is going to come up again. There's no reason to.

And it's especially dumb to do it in a low leverage at bat. Like Rob Ruff Snyder could hit a home run there and it's a solo home run and you're up by one with your banged up bullpen needing still to get nine outs to win that game. Like it's just there's no sensible reason whatsoever. to make the decision that Dan did. He's just kind of managing on autopilot sometimes.

And it just doesn't work. You have to have feel. You have to react. You have to watch the game in front of you. And you have to manage the game that's rolling out in front of you, not the one that you played out in your mind three hours ago. You have to be able to make these little adjustments. And Dan is either incapable of it or won't do it.

And by the way, if Dan is managing on autopilot because that's the way the front office wants him to do it, then guess what? you shouldn't have to hire a manager where you have to write out a script for him to follow. And by the way, if there is a script, light it on fire. Right. Because you have to manage the team that you have currently, not the team that you wanted to have on paper, not what you envisioned. This would look like. You have to manage the game that is happening right in front of you, right on paper.

And again, it's one thing if, if Russ Snyder was hitting well right now, fine, whatever. It's still kind of stupid, honestly, because you know he's going to get another at bat. but whatever. Okay, but Ref Snyder's not. He's gotten one hit all year. It was a home run, cool, in his last appearance, fine, whatever. But he hasn't been better than Luke Rayleigh at all, especially against lefties, because Luke's got two hits against lefties this year.

Ref Snyder has one. And again, it's the sixth inning. That spot is going to come. It is a guarantee that that spot will come up again in this ball game. And you know your bullpen is banged up. You know you're probably going to have to have a big inning to win this game. and instead you sacrifice it where the absolute upside is

is that you take a one one run lead with nine outs to get with your three best leverage arms all down for the day like what what are you doing it doesn't make sense there's no there's no like formula there's no scenario

that you can build where it makes any sense whatsoever to take Luke really out of the game at that point and again he's playing checkers while everybody else is playing chess Like it's not even like he's trying to like grand after. And the issue too. And the issue too is like he's getting bullied.

He's allowed the mariners are allowing themselves to get bullied and have the game be dictated by the other dugout. We're playing the long game here. We're going to get. We know what we know this is going to play out. We know Luke Rayleigh is going to get another up bad. And if you want to go to your, you know, your crappy lefty to get Luke Rayley out of the game. Fine. We'll go to Rob Reff Snyder then.

Yeah. Who has a better chance against your bad lefty than he does a good left. lefty right now. So it's just, it's abject failure across the board and process, obviously, results, but we have to judge managers on process. It is unfair to judge managers on player results. Yes. Because they have nothing to do with that. The process has to be right now. The process is sound. We're not talking about Dan Wilson every other day on the show, but the process is almost never sound. And we're not even talking about the bullpen stuff because I'll give them a pass on the bullpen very clearly it seemed obvious to me that you know muñoz was down today or yesterday and

i mean i don't know bizardo kind of weird that he didn't pitch the eighth uh so i mean was he down i don't know was he was he was he was he was warming up okay i didn't see that so bazaardo was available like i just don't understand that was that's what i heard from people that were at the game i don't think they ever showed it on the broadcast i might be wrong so but bazaardo was available he could have pitched. You also could have gone to Chris Well or Legamina in the 6th to clean up Hancock's mess and save for rare for later in the game.

But whatever, there were lefties. No, the lefties had just hit. So like you know, Gabe Spire apparently not available yesterday either. So you're already down a couple leverage guys. I get it. So I'm not giving Dan too hard of a time. The sequencing was a little weird to me, but whatever. Again, I honestly, it's the rally thing though. That's the thing here.

The bullpen thing, I lay more at the feet of the front office. Like, if you knew you were down three or four guys, why didn't you make a move? It doesn't make sense. If you knew that there was a high probability that you were going to have to give a high leverage ending to a guy who just threw 45 pitches and mop up duty three days ago, like, what are you doing? But anyways, it's the Rayleigh decision. And that's going to be one that we'll probably see again at some point, the series. It seems like once a series, we're having this conversation because Dan or whoever is, is, is. you know, making these decisions.

And ultimately it's Dan, because he has final say on this, they're just falling for the same trick over and over and over and over again. And it's a problem. Yeah. I mean, going back to what you were saying about the front office and, you know, not making a move, that's kind of the problem with how they built this bullpen, particularly, you know, with guys like Chriswell and like Amina, they're out of options.

And clearly they don't want to move on from those guys. They don't want to expose them to waivers. and the one guy that that does have options that you would actually be willing to move down was available last night in Cole Wilcox. Yeah. So it's just kind of the situation.

It's kind of the corner that they've backed themselves into here. We said for the entire winter, we said it in spring training, they were a bullpen arm short. And last night, kind of got proven. They needed another quality bullpen arm to be added this winter, and they didn't do it.

Last night is just one example. of how it burns them. So we'll talk about Emerson Hancock's start. Talk a little bit more about the Mariners offense, which we really didn't do there in the first segment. We mostly just talked about Dan. So I want to talk about the offense because there were some bright spots in the Mariners lineup last night,

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chat with me and other listeners of this show. Tap the link in the description or go to Lockdown, Mariners.supercast.com to learn more. And it wasn't just Dan Wilson. That was the reason that I was very annoyed last night, Colby. It was also that this game actually started out really well for the Mariners. You got that insane catch that Julio makes on that ball that knuckled off of the bat of Nick Kurtz. I don't think I've ever seen a baseball do that.

I've obviously seen baseball's knuckle in the air, but not to that extreme. and the fact that Julio was able to catch that ball was wild. That's one of his best catches ever, I think. And then you get out to an early 2-0-0 lead. Cal hits a very impressive opposite field bomb. Josh Naler gets on the board with an RBI double. He has three hits of this one. It might have been his best game of the season so far.

It's either that or the two-hummer games against the Astros. Dominic-Han-Zone had himself another great night after being a big part of Saturday. when he checks in with a couple of hits, 94.7 mile per hour homer and then a 112 double off of the right field wall, just an absolute laser, very similar to the double that he hit down in San Diego. And yet, as has been the running theme for the Mariners so far offensively this year, while a couple of guys seem to, you know, take a couple steps forward,

you know, a step or two forward. The rest of the offense feels like it takes a step or two back. again one for 12 with runners in scoring position they had multiple opportunities especially after Canzone hit that double to knock JT again out of this game a lot earlier than he wound up leaving it and they couldn't capitalize

and it's just really frustrating I ultimately and we'll talk about Emerson Hancock in a second and you know how how he allowed the A's to get back into this game and all that but like I ultimately put this game on the shoulders of the offense because they had an opportunity to put the A's away and they just couldn't get it done.

Yeah, it's pretty unfortunate too because this is arguably the best two, three, and four have looked in your lineup at the same time. I believe they went to combine six for 13. They had three extra base hits between the three of them. I think they only struck out twice. I believe they even had two stolen bases. between the like they they were doing everything you know and and you know Julio didn't have any extra base hits it's kind of the one like little complaint there but you know again this was great

six for 13 this exactly what you envision your two three four doing unfortunately you know bernan donovan's not there because he's on the IL J.P. Crawford's leading off and he has an over he did walk later but whatever in consequential walk so he goes over and then unfortunately on the other side of this stack. Randy has probably his worst game with the year. He goes over four with three strikeouts. And then obviously Luke Grayley, you know, only gets the two outbats and the refs.

So two, three and four were on base. They threatened. They had extra base hits. They stole bases like they did everything you could. Unfortunately, nobody could get on in front of them and nobody could drive them in after they did all that. So there was just kind of this gap. It's funny.

And again, this is not a complaint about Dan Wilson, just to be clear. But if like Canzone had been, hitting six instead of seventh, the Mariners probably win that game. Like that's just kind of how it works. And again, that's not a complaint. They should have Canzone hitting below Rayleigh right now. Nobody's saying anything about it. It's just kind of to point out like how big of a difference it would be,

just one player behind that stack had a good game. The Mariners probably win this game. And unfortunately for us and for them and for Randy, he just was dreadful last night at the, played and so at that point it's on it's on Luke Rayleigh to get hits instead of you know sack flies and whatnot and Luke only got a couple opportunities to do it and yeah Rosarena and Rayleigh combined for 0 for six with five strikeouts yeah and then yet on top of that ref Snyder who went 0 for two with a strikeout as well so oh for eight with six

six case yeah yeah that's just not going to get it done again especially when two three four do their job. And again, the bottom of the order was fine. You know, Cole Young kind of had a Cole Young night right now. Found a way to get on base once or twice. Leo Rivas checked in in the ninth with an RBI double to give them a chance. But unfortunately, JP and Cal just couldn't get it done, which, you know, again, down by two. So whatever. But yeah, it really is last night very frustrating because this is the first time we've seen two, three, four look like the two, three, four. It's just the rest of the lineup that hits just didn't align at the right time again they had 10 hits last night i think six of them were extra base hits so everything about that game you that box score you look at it just

quick glance you would think they scored six runs seven runs maybe eight yeah i mean yeah that number six extra base hits out of 10 hits you know that's pretty good and hulio and cal and nailer were your best hitters in canzone but unfortunately just because that stack of randy and and Luke really didn't do anything. They were terrible after that 2-3-4 stack. You just never could quite deliver that knockout punch. It was just a little bit too disjointed. The hits didn't

bunch up together enough. And so as a result, you still score four, which most nights is going to be enough for you to win with this pitching staff. But you left at least three or four more runs on the table and that's the difference in the game. Yeah, the bottom of the third and the bottom

of the fourth, those innings killed you. You get a one-out, double, from Josh Naylor in the bottom of the third, then Randy and Rayleigh strike out back to back to end that threat. And then you get a lead off double from Dominic Canzone on the bottom of the fourth. Cole Young grounds out, moves Canzone to third,

then Rebos grounds out. Yeah, the Rebus grounds out with the infield in. Canzone doesn't go on the contact play, which was actually surprising because it feels like the bearers always go on the contact play. And then JP grounds out to end the inning. But I'm confused because Cole Young had the productive out. and productive outs are always good.

They're productive. But yeah, you know, simultaneously while this was, while this was happening, while the mayor's offense couldn't put J.T. Gainaway, things started to get worse for Merson Hancock, started to find the middle of the plate a lot. They were even mentioning it on the broadcast. Ryan Roland Smith was pointed out in real time.

And I think like seven of the last 10 batted ball events before Lingaleers' home run, or no, Kurtz's home run. Yeah. Had been hard hit. And then boom. Kurtz Homer, Legaleer's Homer, 3-3 ball game.

And then obviously Hancock had given up a home run to, to Carlos Cortez and the fourth. That guy had four hits. Awesome. Yeah. So, yeah. So Hancock, like, I think it's pretty safe to say this was his worst start of the year.

Yep. It was really like, there was a big difference between the first three innings and the last two. He just lost really all feel for the sweeper. He, you know, he almost spiked another one, but then after that, he just, he never really found it again. And so at that point, he became basically just fastballs. That's all he could throw is fastballs, but he couldn't get glove side with the four seam or with either of the fastballs. Like, he would try and then it would just run back over the middle of the plate.

So essentially, you know, the A's got to a point where they just had to focus on one velocity, and they only had to look in one quadrant of the plate for that pitch. And of course, you know, Hancock, any pitcher, if you end up in a position where you can only throw one pitch and you can only put it in one spot, it doesn't matter how good that pitch is, it's going to get smashed. And I feel like we could all see it coming. You know, now it got delayed a little bit because Hancock was able to pick off Lawrence Butler, which the Mariners did twice, by the way. So, yay, controlling the running game, I guess.

For a team that had only been caught ceiling once in the entire season, they got caught twice yesterday. So that kind of delayed the inevitable. But I think most people knew just by watching that game, Hancock is just begging to get absolutely destroyed. And when he got back to the top of the order again and he was still throwing it right down the middle every time, it was inevitable. It was about to happen. So, yeah, you can kind of see it coming, but also, you know, again, if we're looking at it from Dan's perspective, why didn't you take him out? If it was so obvious, didn't have the arms to cover for any. So he obviously was very desperately trying to get Hancock to get through six.

And the pitch count was fine. So it's not like he was tired or anything. But, you know, he just very clearly lost it. And we'll see if you can find it in his next start. It will be against St. Louis on Sunday, I believe. So yeah, it was just a bad, it was a step back start for him. And again, this is why we haven't really liked answering those questions about what do you do when the, when Bryce Miller is healthy. He's like, well, let's get there first and then we'll see if we have a real conversation or not because Hancock has another outing or two like that.

It's not going to be a topic of conversation. But we'll see. Again, overall, just one bad start. Well, yesterday didn't get off to a good start either, even before the game happened. Brennan Donovan landed on the IL and the Mariners did not make the exciting corresponding move. They went really boring with it. So we'll talk about the decision to not call up Colt Emerson and the impact of Donovan heading to the IL in just a moment. But first, a reminder of this episode of the Lockdown Marries podcast is brought to you by five hour energy.

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For more information, go to patreon.com forward slash control his own link in the description of this episode. So yesterday, shortly after we got done recording, the Mariners, as they always do, made a roster move. And it wasn't a particularly fun one. Brennan Donovan heading to the 10-day IL with a left groin strain. And Will Wilson has been called up to the big lead club to make room for Wilson. on the 40-man roster, Miles Masturbone, which is weird, considering that he had just recently started a rehab assignment down in Tacoma.

Now, obviously, left groin strain, that's not what had been reported about Donovan over the last couple of days. Apparently, he was dealing with hip tightness, and supposedly, reportedly, he was available off the bench for Sunday's game. But according to Dan Wilson, They did further imaging on Donovan that revealed the groin strain.

Dan said that they felt it was serious enough for him to go on the aisle to warrant an IL stint. Now, it doesn't seem like it's going to be too much of a long-term thing. Dan didn't really express long-term concern here. But obviously, you know, with Donovan going on the IL, a lot of people, even myself included, thought like, hey, is this an opportunity for Colt Emerson to finally get the call up to the majors? And according to Dan Wilson, at least part of the reason for not calling up Colt yesterday was that he's also dealing with a little bit of a wrist issue right now. Which, okay, sure. You know, I think, look, like, it's early.

You obviously, the team obviously has a very clear schedule for what they want to do with, cult and they want to try and stick to that as much as they possibly can and again you know you got the element of a 20 year old making his major league debut assign that contract a lot of expectations a lot of eyes on him even though he should translate totally fine over to third base he's technically going to be learning a new position you know learning to play a new a new position for a team with world series aspirations and now you throw in like a you know a wrist issue that he's kind of having to manage on top of that you're probably not putting him in the best position to succeed here going back to what we were talking about in the first segment with dan

and all that like you want to try and put you guys in the best position to succeed so yeah you got emerson dealing with a risk thing and plus all the other things that i mentioned probably not the the best situation for him to to make his major league debut so it's it's a little disappointing because the alternative here is will wilson which like whatever but i get it Will Wilson, who is like at best, fifth or sixth on the depth charts at third base behind, obviously Donovan, Rivas, Wisdom, Mastroponi. Obviously, Amerson would be number two, but he's not quite ready yet, regardless of if they say it's the wrist injury or what have you,

they clearly don't think he's ready. And the numbers back it up. And that's not to say he won't be ready in a couple weeks, but he's not right now. So, yeah, like you're on like your sixth. best option to be on this roster. And that's how it goes sometimes, you know. So Will Wilson, former first round pick. I believe the Angels took him one spot ahead of Corbyn Carroll.

God bless the Angels. So, yeah, it's, it's, you know, infielder. I doubt he's going to play much. I think they're just going to let Leo Revos run with the third base job until they make another move. Either Donovan comes back or I don't know, you know, it's possible. Emerson's up tomorrow for all. I mean, who knows, right? Like, oh, the risk got better overnight.

Yay, we're ready. Like, we just didn't want to call him up, you know, and then have them face a lefty, but we're going to call him up tomorrow to face the right. I don't know, whatever. But it seems like Wilson's, you know, just a true bench player, which, again, I like bench players you might actually use. And the Mariners don't really have that right now.

So, yeah, it is what it is. Emerson, again, I just don't think they think he's ready. And they're probably right. The strikeout rate is still a bit of a problem. The swing and miss rate is. still a bit of a problem for Emerson. And it's not a problem in that it's a long-term concern or even really a short-term concern. It's just that like we talked about in spring training, like, just kids 20 years old.

Like you have to make, you have to make him make you put him on the roster. And if there's any like thought that he might not be ready, he's not. So you just leave him down there. There's no reason to rush the guy whatsoever. And there's no reason to push it. You can't bring. And also, you know, side note, I don't think this comes into play all that much. but I really don't want to bring up Colt Emerson when the team is struggling

because I don't want the like, oh, he's the savior. I don't want that like whole tag on it. It's like bring them up when the team's, you know, eight games over 500 and like things are going well. And you're like, and now here comes the young kid. Like so yeah, I think it's pretty clear. The Mariners just, I think this could say two things. It could say, A, that, you know,

we think Donovan's going to be back after his stint after just the minimum stint, which would be great. But I don't know. Really weird wording from Dan. yesterday like we don't think it's serious but it definitely warranted an iL stint like okay um yeah whatever which that could also just be like hey you know he's gonna be four or five days more and he's dealing with this hip tightness thing he still hasn't really gotten over this groin thing from anaheim and and you know again there's like the the hernia surgery of it all and all that

who knows how you know if that's like hey if he's going to miss if he wasn't going to be able to play tomorrow yesterday and then like we were planning on benching him against the left anyways on tuesday and then we have thursday off like let's just put him on the iL and and give him reset we'll we'll see again we didn't really get much information on it from the beat riders didn't get anything either but maybe that's part of the reason like emerson's got the wrist thing he hasn't been amazing in triple he's been good especially for his age but he has been amazing he's got this risk thing we think donovan's going to be back up in a week or so anyways so what's the point of calling up for a week?

I, you know, and so I think there's just a bunch of factors that went into it that they're just like, it's not time. It's not time. And again, they're probably right. That's probably the correct way to handle this. And I don't think much of anybody, you know, who actually follows this has a problem with the idea that like Colt Emerson, close, but not quite there yet. So let's not push it.

He's played 18 games in AAA this year, 73 played appearances. he's at a hundred total AAA played appearances dating back to last year when this cup of coffee with rain ears and he's been fine you know he's sitting 258 361 452 but it's a 26% K rate right now 11% walk rate couple homers more doubles than homers right now he's been fine he's just not busting the door down he's not demanding call me up right now he needs more time. I think that's totally fair to say that he needs more time. I still feel like late May is realistic here. But again, if I do feel

like maybe if Donovan was going to miss like four weeks, like if he's going to miss a month if they felt that, maybe they give Colt that time because it's a month and you can kind of reset naturally after that and send it back down if you need to. And if he performs and it's like,

okay, now we have a month to figure out what to, you know, how to handle this going forward. But it does, I don't know, just kind of seems to me like maybe this is a two week thing or a week and a half thing with Donovan. And so, again, with all the little factors that we just laid out, they just kind of snowball into this big ultimate like, now's not the time decision. Yeah. Again, I'm going to trust the Mariners on this one. And also just in general, trusting the numbers that I usually look at with prospects anyways, it does tell me that Colts not quite ready. And look, they've made a very significant investment in this guy.

And they clearly have a schedule in mind for him. And it's very possible that they're just not willing to move off of that schedule for anything. Even if Brendan Donovan went down with a season ending injury. You know, maybe they wouldn't do it right then and there. Look, to put it as plain as possible, if you don't think this guy is ready, you don't call him up. Because you have to do right by the player, not the team. because this is the guy, like you said, you've invested a lot and you're planning on building your future around.

And again, there's no guarantee he's any better than Leo Rivas right now. So what's the point of pushing it? It doesn't make sense. All right. Well, that's going to do it for our show. Thank you so much for joining us here on the lockdown era's podcast. Prior to the Locktime Podcast Network, your team every day. And once again, if you never miss an episode,

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