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Episode Date: December 5, 2025

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dollars off your first purchase kicking us off here on fan fiction fridays chewy baseball 12 says go mariners fan fiction friday is my favorite segment hopefully we'll hear your thoughts on this one while you're going to uh they got a deal here with the arizona diamondbacks it's bryce miller gerangelo sanja tie pete and jared sunstrom to the diamondbacks for cartel martin they also ask if this doesn't get it done do you think it can be felon and celestin or Michael Royal. I'm confused what you mean by that like in addition to what you're offering. I guess so

right. Anyway, so Miller Sanja, Tai Pete and Sunstrom for Marta Clay. Pretty aggressive. I don't think the Diamondbacks could really walk away from that just kind of looking at their their needs and their build and their timeline. I mean, you get

four years of Bryce Miller who isn't even making arbitration yet. You get six plus years of Sanja who's relatively close to the big leagues. And those are two guys who are going to slot into your rotation for the next, again, minimum four years, probably three years. And Miller is, you know, when he's healthy, he's a pretty strong number three. And so, yeah, just those two guys alone, I think definitely gets the attention of the Diamondbacks.

Now, there are other issues with it because, like, how do the Mariners replace Bryce Miller? They can't use Sanja now, too, because he's in this deal as well. So you're kind of left with Kate Anderson and who's not going to be ready. And Ryan Sloan, who's probably not going to be ready, you know, for 2026. So now you have to go out and you have to get another starter and you have less money to do it because you're going to have to pay Ketel Marte $16 million. So there are some. And now you can't trade Luis Cascio. You need Luis Cascio.

Right. Right. And so you don't really have an avenue to clear payroll unless you're going to trade Randy a Rosaner. So like I don't think you can do this trade in a vacuum just because it leaves you. so vulnerable. And this is why it's difficult to look at major leaguer for major leaguer swaps because the mariners don't have depth in most places to be able to absorb a lot, particularly in the rotation. Again, next winter, yes, they could do something like this because in theory, Kate Anderson may have debuted by the time, but he'll certainly be ready,

assuming he's healthy, of course. Well, Sanja's in the steel, but yeah. But yeah, in general, yeah, Sanjo would probably be ready to help. And Sloan would probably be pretty darn close, assuming they all survive the winter, you know, in the Oregon and the summer. And they're all healthy going into next year. But yeah, I think, you know, this is the type of thing that probably going to be required to get you to the top of the list with the diamondbacks would be my hunch is something like this. I don't think it would be Miller and Sanger. I think maybe you take Sanger out and replace them with, you know, Seleson or Arroyo. But, yeah, I think this probably is what it takes to get like really.

serious about it. Again, if you're the Mariners, you would really prefer to do a prospect trade. And if you are going to give up a major leaguer, you probably want it to be Cole Young because, you know, Marte is the Cole Young replacement. So it's really interesting. There are some problems with it in terms of what it does to the rest of the roster and how you have to kind of pivot the rest of your offseason. But you are getting Cate who's really freaking good. So yeah, there are some problems with it. And again, it's tough to evaluate, you know, the any Marte trade. But yeah, I think this is probably about what it would take to get their attention, would be my guess. Maybe it costs less, maybe it costs more. I don't know.

But I think this is probably what it would take when I just kind of think of how a few of the other teams who are out there might be willing to offer major league talent. I think you might have to dip into yours. And I just don't know if the Mariners are going to be willing to go that row. Well, we've talked about this. The Diamondbacks kind of have their backs up against the wall. They're kind of running up against the clock here because if they don't trade him by opening day, then his 10 and five rights kick in. And then the ability, their ability to trade him becomes far more complicated because now he can just nix any trade that he wants to. So you know that. Other teams know that. So I don't think they could do much better than getting

an established major league starter who has postseason success and a top 100-ish prospect which is what Bryce Miller and Gerangelo San Jose are so I think this would get it done the problem is the trickle-down effect that Miller's exit has on the Mariners here

is why I'm probably not pulling the trigger on this I would if I felt better about their replacement options for Miller and I just I don't like it's one of those things where you know if Anderson had you know 70 in the minors last year if sanger had finished you know the year in triple a although he's in this trade so if Sloan had finished the year in double a and was really pushing and you know if I felt better about those guys coming up and being ready on opening day to contribute I would consider this trade but there's no way they're going to be ready to contribute any of them by opening day. And again, you just don't really have the money, like, to go out and get a better pitcher.

So now you have to make a separate deal. So, like, in the grand scheme of things in, like, an offseason plan type of setting, where you have other moves that correlate to this move, then maybe you could pull something off like that. But just in isolation as we sit here now and how the market's played out and all that, I just, I think this is probably a no-go for the meritor. So that would be my hunch. I'll give this a 55, though. yeah i think that's 50 55 somewhere in that range definitely starts the conversation definitely

gets the time of backs attention there's just so many obstacles from the mariner's side of things in this type of deal that it makes it feel a little bit too unrealistic to go much higher all right we will look at more of your trades in just a moment but first a reminder of this episode of the long time airs podcast is brought to you by game time and doer the world cup is coming back to north america for the first time since 1990 And with 48 teams for the first time ever, it's going to be massive. But let's be honest, getting tickets is usually the hardest part. That's why the GameTime app is clutch.

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but no, I couldn't find anything. I don't think the Cubs are interested in this. Now, the Cubs have talked about wanting, starting pitching. We know that they had some interest in Luis Castillo last year. And we know that the Cubs were trying to move an outfielder last year. The thing is that they did. And now they've lost Kyle Tucker. So it's Ian Hap, it's Pete Crow Armstrong.

And now they have right field open for, say, a Suzuki, who they really don't want to play out there as something I'm learning. They're not going to resign Kyle Tucker. They've already come out and said that. Like, they're not even pretending that they're going to. Yeah. They got Owen Casey on the way. Right. And, but they could still keep, say, on D.HM or D.H.K.C. or blah, blah, blah.

So, yeah. Yeah, I don't think this gets it done. I think, you know, and Sunstrom isn't enough to tip the. scales in any direction so it's interesting it is kind of uh in a way it's a hanniger for ray swap except for you know suzuki's better than hanniger uh when you acquired him significantly so yeah i mean suzuki is the best player moving in this deal right which is why sunstrom isn't enough to kind of tip the scales to where they take this deal uh so i think what's left on say his deal is it one year yeah it's one year so he's at one year in 19 mill so basically

Luis becomes a $5 million pitcher for the Cubs. For this year, and the next year they stopped to pay them $24 million. Yeah. So they're not going to do that. You'd have to send a load of money and, you know, it would be

I just, I think this is too messy for for the Cubs. I don't really see the benefit in it for them. It's like the general idea, I would say is fine-ish. It's just you didn't tighten it up with all the like the other details

that would have to come along with it to make it all work. Right. There has to be cash exchange. There has to be a much better prospect than Sunstrom going to the Cubs. Because right now what you're relying on is like, oh, the Cubs are totally fine, taking on 29 million guaranteed.

Yeah, over the next two years. Give or take. Well, there's also the trade kicker. Let's just call it 30 for easy math. And getting worse while they do it. and that like you know the the positional value outweighs who the overall better player is right I think it's a fun starting point again I just don't see if both guys had a year left this would make more sense both guys had two years left it would make more sense I just don't

think you're going to get the second year like of castillo off your books for free I just I don't think that's going to happen. And Jared Sundstrom is no disrespect to him, basically free. It's probably like a 40 because there's just not enough details in here or there's just not, you know, you didn't play it through to the end of the line, I think. You just kind of look at, hey, this guy's making money. Luis is making money. This team needs a starting pitcher.

The Mariners could use, you know, an outfield bat, a right fielder. So that makes sense. And it's like, oh, yeah, on the surface, yes. but when you kind of drill down a little bit deeper, more holes start to appear. So, yeah. Decent start. It just,

it needs more work. So I'm going to give it like a 40. Yeah, 40. Quick side note on the Cubs. Yesterday, there was a report that they were interested in Alex Breckman. Yes. So if that happens,

Nico Horner might be back on the table. Just going to throw that back out there. But we'll see. Again, long way to go. We don't, it's probably not going to happen. how do you get Nico Horner to the Mariners? You probably root for Alex Bragman to sign with the,

with the Cubs. So sure. We'll see what happens there, but yeah. Triton Therapy has a deal here with the Phillies. Harry Ford and Dominicanz Zone to Philadelphia for Emundo Sosa and Matt Strom.

Sosa is a tremendous fit. Strom's a tremendous fit. Yeah. Six, really seven years of Harry Ford. at least six, possibly seven of Harry Ford. This is kind of a weird. Harry Ford's a tough one when people send him in like these fan fiction Friday trades because sometimes people treat him like he doesn't have any value because the Mariners don't need him

because they have Cal Rale and other times they treat him like, you know, he's an elite prospect. And he's not. He's a very good prospect. Yeah. But yeah, this one. It just feels a bit too, too much on the Seattle side. I think Harry Ford to Philly makes a lot of sense, especially right now while Real Muto is a free agent. Maybe that changes here in a few weeks, but like right now, Harry Ford makes a lot of sense for the Philadelphia Phillies.

And the Phillies have a lot of pieces that make sense for the Marys. Including Strom and so-so. Yes. It's just, man. Yeah, seven years of Harry Ford for one year of Strom, who's one of the best relievers in baseball. Sosa, one of the best utility guys in baseball, great fit for the Marys. Right. But overall, you're getting, ideally, 300 plate appearances from Sosa.

And about 60 innings, got a strong. 60, 70 innings from Strom. Yeah. That's tough. It's almost like, hey, is there a prospect that we can get back, or is there like a more controllable piece we could get included to kind of make up for that. I don't know. Like, if this was Kirkring instead of Strom, I mean, you get a little bit worse of a pitcher,

but you get four years of club control. Maybe. Yeah, I don't know. We're actually probably going to be talking about that a little later on. So when you continue that discussion. Spoiler alert. So, yeah. A lot of it makes sense. It's Philly could use some young catching help.

The Mariners have Cal Raleigh. Harry Ford's never going to be the everyday catcher. for the Mariners almost certainly not unless cowl gets hurt uh the Phillies have a lot of pieces that make sense for Seattle including shram and and so so so like all the pieces are there it's just when you actually like start talking it out yeah six to seven years of harry ford who is an elite on base guy who's at least an average defensive catcher who is 22 23 years old and is athletic enough to provide value for Seattle somewhere besides behind the plate is it's tough to give that up for what you hope is only 300 350 plate appearances and 70 innings out of two guys who are

going to be free agents who you're not going to sign either one of them after this year so yeah yeah it's just it's tough pills swallow yeah it's just too rich for my blood even for how good strama is um i'm i'm a i'm a go 40 yeah again i think if you can get if you could also like i think the mirrors are like absolutely hell no on this yeah maybe i think where it might get interesting again is like could you get like a in this return could you get a player who's further away but has like real upside like a matthew fisher interesting arm could you get him attached to this deal to kind of make up for some of the lost value, then maybe, like, the merits will get creative, but then also Will Dombrowski.

So, I don't know, I think it's a 45 because it all makes sense until you actually get down to like the, where it's like seven years of a guy for, again, 300 played appearances and 70 innings from two guys before they leave in free agency. that's tough yeah yeah even though they're really good and they're phenomenal fits for the mariners all right we got a couple more of your trades to go over in just a moment but first a reminder of this episode of the lockdown errors podcast is brought to you by fan duel NFL sundays move fast one big play and suddenly everything feels different that's what makes live betting with fan duel so exciting you're not just watching the game you're reacting to it in real time

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Link in the description of this episode. Marin's fans, the 77, has a deal here with the Dodgers, Randy or Rosarana to L.A. for Emmett Sheehan and Alex Freeland. One year of Randy is not getting you this. It might get you one of these guys. Yeah, maybe one, but not both. Yeah, I mean, look at what Taylor Ward got, right? Yeah.

Randy's going to get roughly what Taylor Ward got. And obviously, Grayson Rodriguez is kind of a unique player in that he's extremely talented, but extremely hurt. And so I think pick one. And then at that point, is there any sense for the Mariners to do it? Not really. So I think this is a pretty significant Dodgers overpay. And honestly, when you factor in like what it actually. would cost relative to market.

I don't think that it makes a lot of sense for the Mariners to do it if the Dodgers aren't going to overpay. Because like right now, kind of like with the pitching, they don't have Randy or Rosarena replacement. They should be looking to add outfielders this winter because they have nothing in right field that you can

count on. So you want to make another hole and like I guess my hunch would be is that the person who sent this trade would be like, oh, well, Rayleigh plays left and then right field is can zone and Robles. Sure. And then obviously you have Sheehan or Freeland. But again, I think you get one of these guys. What is Sheehan doing for you specifically? Is he starting for you? Probably bullpen.

Yeah. Like, again, because these aren't offseason plans, maybe the idea is you trade Luis Castillo then, but A, good luck finding a trade partner. Yeah. But I mean, ultimately, Sheehan is going to move to the bullpen anyways because at some point, Kate Anderson, is going to come up and he's better than Sheehan, or at least we think he will be. Yeah, yeah. So, um, yeah, I really like Sheehan. I don't think the Dodgers would trade Sheehan for, for one year of Randy. No, I can see them trade free land. The Dodgers are probably, the Dodgers are probably trying to get Cal Tucker right now as well.

Like they're probably, they're probably trying to do something bigger. But again, we assume that they don't, right? We have to assume that the Dodgers have interest in Randy or Roserana. If that's the case, I think you could probably get Freeland. There's just really not a path for him to get playing time. And he's not an elite. He's kind of a hairy Ford prospect where it's like, he's a very good prospect. Freeland, I can totally buy in to.

She had not as much, no. Yeah. So it's a drastic overpay from the daughter's perspective. And if it's not an overpay, I don't see why the Mariners would move Randy again, unless they need the money for somewhere else. But we can't factor that in when we're talking about this trade. So Freeland for a Rosarena straight up would be interesting. Obviously, Freeland fits pretty nicely at third base.

But is he better than Colt Emerson? in 2026 maybe but maybe not I think you went too hard here so I'm I'm gonna go 35 yeah I think that's 35 40 Dan has a deal with the pirates Harry Ford to the Pirates for Brackson

Ashcraft it's a fun deal I like Ashcraft obviously I like Harry Ford quite a bit these one for one young major league swaps are always fun. I mean, this is very Montero for Pineda you know, type of thing. Why would the Mariners do?

What do the Mariners get out of this? Because they have their five starters. Yeah. I think this makes a lot of sense after a Luis Castillo trade. Yes, 100%. And we just saw that like the Pirates just traded a young

starter for a young offensive player who's going to be in their opening day lineup. This is a very similar trade to that one. It's just the Mariners don't need Ashcraft, so there's not much reason for them to do this. And again, I like Ashcraft quite a bit. This would be a very fun trade if it went down. But then the next question is, okay, did you just trade your backup catcher for a relief pitcher? Or is there another deal coming down the pipeline where you trade Luis Castillo and Ashcraft, you know, slides into that spot?

and then, you know, maybe next winter you end up trading Ashcraft because you want to Kate Anderson or maybe Kate Anderson gets traded or maybe Logan Gilbert gets traded and both of those guys are in the rotation. So I'm not saying, you know, I think this is good. You could stash Ashcraft in the bullpen this year. And then next year you might trade Kirby. You might trade Gilbert. You might trade somebody else, Luis.

And then you so you could always have Ashcraft and like Anderson in the rotation next year. but as things sit right now Ashcraft's going to the bullpen and if so when they bring back the same five starters or even four of the five starters in 2026 come back Anderson's going to be the guy that gets first crack at the rotation, not Ashcraft. So there's a possibility you're trading Harry Ford for a reliever

for at least a couple of years. Which I mean they were willing to do with Duran, but Dron's obviously, you know, in a different stratosphere. Yeah. three playoff runs with one of the best, you know, closers in baseball. Yeah. So evaluation-wise, I think this is really good. Yep.

Agreed. Yeah, so you're going to get a high score for that. I don't think the Mariners would do this. No. I think the Pirates would do this. Yeah. They do, they really need catching help. And I think if the Mariners were able to trade Luis Castillo, they would also do something

like this. Yeah. I think I'm going to give you a 60. Ooh. Yeah. What if, Ty, what have I told you that the Mariners traded Luis Castillo for like,

I don't know, they got like a relief arm, like whatever, like the deal that we came up with in our off season plan. Let's say they make that trade first. And then this trade comes across the table. Then what are you giving it? A 70.

Oh, okay. I would give this a 70. Yeah. Yeah, it's fun. It's creative. It's different. It's, and how about this?

It is a trade with the Pittsburgh pirates where people aren't stupidly saying, how about you trade for Paul Skeens? Not going to happen. We're wasting zero minutes on your Paul Skeen's trade talks on fan fiction Friday. Well, you just wasted about 15 seconds, actually. Fine. That's not a minute.

moving on your false uh are never getting on fan fiction so you're you're still doing it 20 seconds done

all right that's the most we're going to mention that guy's name on this on this segment ever at least for the next couple years

uh huh 30 seconds I didn't say his name so yeah you want to join me here on the 70 bandwagon no because I

I will never trade Harry Ford and give it a 70. That's fair. That's fair. So, yeah, 55 as things sit right now, if they trade Castillo, 60. Yeah, it's really fun and creative. It's different. And I think it's fairly realistic. So, yeah, kind of checks all the boxes.

I mean, the Pirates are a team that I've thought about a lot for a position player for pitcher swap. Yeah, your whole Cole Young for Hunter, Barko. Yeah, to make the scoobel thing work. Yeah. In my personal offseason plan. Also, I don't know if you saw it this morning, Ty, but some murmurs at the scubal trade talks are happening. Yeah.

So, yeah, yeah. The tigers kind of refuse to come right out and say, like, we're not trading them. So, and they're engaging. Like, I guess Buster said something like they're not calling people, but like they're taking calls. And so it's like, yeah. Yeah. I mean, maybe. We'll see.

We'll see. All right. Last trade of the day comes from Switch. A big deal here with Phillies. It's another Harry Ford to Philadelphia trade, which, again, makes a ton of sense. But it's not just Harry going to Philly. It's also Logan Evans. It's Victor Robles.

That's interesting. Tai Pete. And the competitive balance round B pick that the Mayors were just awarded a few days ago. for Matt Strom Alec Bohm Orion Kirkring and $5 million in cash so it's one year

Strom one year boom right and then like four years of Kirkren I think yeah I think four three or four so basically what this comes down to we'll get into everything else that's added

you know on top of Harry but just kind of going back to that Mundo know sosa matt strom deal is boom and then the you know the four years of kirk rain who's pretty good reliever obviously his season didn't end and you know spectacular fashion but he's still a good reliever um is that enough for you to find to to go you know what yeah i'll trade harry ford I'm getting Strom also. Yeah, you're getting

Strom and Kirkran. There's your relievers that you need this winner. Yeah. Yeah, probably. I think... And you get your third base one. Which, I... May or may not be better than Ben Williamson in overall value.

Yeah, yeah. Like, he's fine. He's fine. I'm not crazy about Alec Ballum, frankly. I'd rather have Sosa, to be honest. But... Bome's fine. He's like a two-win. walking two and a half one player he's fine um yeah but obviously for harry ford's the big piece

in this the comp round b pick stings a little bit pete and uh robles whatever if you personally like those guys like fine but like from a baseball standpoint they're both kind of yeah um so yeah i think i'd probably do this trade i don't think the phillies would do this trade but maybe maybe it's possible um i think the phillies might rather have uh rayley than robles but maybe i'm wrong yeah it's interesting that's for sure yeah um obviously like ford's the big prize here and again he makes just so so so so so much sense for the phillies right now um and they get an outfielder which you know they're looking for right now roblis you know try and take a shot on him to bounce back it's a very reasonable deal very reasonable

bet for them to take on him uh they get a competitive balance round B pick um but moving three pieces off their major league roster does that really seem like dave dombrowski speed no not really yeah it's the Phillies are in a weird spot because It's almost unavoidable for them to not, like, take steps back from where they've been the last few years just because they're running up against it in the payroll situation and they're not willing to blow past, you know, the top luxury tax threshold and the team's getting a lot older and, you know, a lot of these contracts are starting to hit the long-term deals for Turner and Wheeler and Harper. They're starting to hit and they have a bunch of guys who are ARP 3 and they're all. all going to be to partying after this year. So they're kind of in this weird spot where they should kind of be like reshuffling a little bit. But they can't do it too much because it's almost impossible for them to be like bad enough that they're not going to compete.

You know what I mean? So like they're kind of in this weird. They either have to, you know, dive head first into the free agency and spend some more long term money to keep this going. Or they have to scale it back a little bit. And, you know, trading a couple of guys who are going to be free agents next year who you're not going to resign. anyways probably the best way to do it so boom and strom i can see that no problem uh and then like the major leaguers you get back rayleigh hypothetically raleigh roblis whatever and harry ford ford's probably their opening day catcher uh especially it doesn't seem

like they're going to sign real muto back so they're getting a couple major leaguers while trading a couple off of their roster but yeah i just doesn't feel like a dombrowski move it doesn't but that's a move that I think they should make I agree yeah and I think the just the impact that you would be bringing in for 2026 the year that matters the most for you from the mayor's perspective I think you you have to do this despite how much you know we all love Harry Ford. Yeah. Agreed. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think you'd have to do this.

I'll give you, I'll give you 60. It's going to go 50, 55, just because it doesn't seem very dump-eousy-ish. Yeah, it's not super realistic. Yeah, yeah. You know what? I'll bring it down to a 55. Sorry, switch. All right. That is going to do. do it for our show. Thank you so much for joining us here on the Lockdown Marriss podcast. Part of the Lockdown Podcast Network, your team every day for Colby Patnode. I'm Tadangazales. Be sure to give us a follow on Twitter at LO underscore Marrars. You can follow me at Teddy Gonzalez and Colby at CPAT 11. That's CPAT 1-1. We're also on Blue Sky. You can

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