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- Yankees slug four homers to sweep away Seattle
- Mariners defeat Pirates in 11 innings to complete sweep
- Game Thread 144. Sept. 8th, 2019. Mariners vs Astros.
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But it felt attainable and hardly unreasonable or excessive to hope the Mariners would seize the opportunity to right-size their payroll up to at least league-average or a shade above, a range they could reach by simply signing a star instead of making nibbling trades and paying talent instead of money. Seattle is following the playbook of clubs like Houston and Atlanta when it suits them, but they need to do more than retrace the past to outpace their current rivals. Hopefully more creativity in improving the roster remains, because Seattle’s pathways to use their money and improve the club have dwindled significantly in their stagnation. I hope it’s not too late to put things on the right track towards significant offseason improvement and not merely holding serve. Yet now each of those deals looks significantly more banal, as does Bryce Harper’s $25.38 million per year despite the massive year total.
McCoy was one of only two Mariners prospects to enjoy a 20/20 season, bashing 21 homers and swiping 22 bases -- both career highs. The .805 OPS, 63 RBIs and 23 doubles for Tacoma were also personal bests. McCoy, who made some of the more impressive defensive plays in the system, mostly stayed at shortstop and committed just six errors in nearly 1,000 total chances at the position.
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Much like the earlier discussion on Acuña and Albies’ shockingly cheap extensions setting a baseline that’s been built up from each year, so too goes free agency. The length is a new appreciation for shenanigans with the luxury tax rules by clubs willing to threaten that threshold in the $220 million range. The luxury tax calculation averages the cost of a deal over its entirety of guarantees for a team. Players in pre-arbitration and arbitration are only counted for the current year, while those on extensions or free agent contracts, as well as those with signing bonuses have their pay calculated by mean cost when appraising the luxury tax. In essence, Correa’s 13-year, $350 million deal could just as easily be 10/$350m, but that would cost San Francisco $35 million each year on their luxury tax calculation. Instead, they save $8-9 million of space between themselves and the tax, which provides them flexibility every year of the contract to improve further without incurring penalties.
Instead, they have opted out, and I want to go in depth on several of the reasons why this is outlandishly risky behavior by an organization in such a spectacular position to thrive. Seattle had primed themselves specifically for signing an impact middle infielder, trading away their two best prospects Noelvi Marte and Edwin Arroyo in a deal to acquire RHP Luis Castillo that I’d do again in a heartbeat. However, Seattle’s middle infield depth organizationally is now among the worst in MLB. Few teams are more well-situated to sign a star to fill one of their glaring holes given their low payroll, exciting, young, on-the-heels-of-a-playoff-berth roster, and organizational need for several years of development to find their own internal solution. Instead, Seattle did not, by all accounts and their own attitude, give the idea more than a passing glance’s worth of effort.
Yankees slug four homers to sweep away Seattle
I’m uncertain, but I also don’t believe they’re so well situated as to simply wait around to leapfrog Houston with internal development. Yordan, Kyle Tucker, and Jeremy Peña are all younger than Raleigh and around the same age as Gilbert, Kirby, and Taylor Trammell. They will need active vanquishing, something reflected in current projection systems like FanGraphs’ Depth Charts which have Seattle around 5-6 wins above replacement weaker than Houston, around 2-3 WAR ahead of both Anaheim and Texas. In other words, a competitive team in the present, but risking plenty of present disappointment in hopes of avoiding future spending. While the M’s are coming off back-to-back 90-win seasons, they finished the 2022 regular season 16 games back of the 106-win Astros in the America League West, then were bounced by the eventual World Series champs from Houston in three games in the ALDS.
The M’s have made some improvements, though, with their trades for All-Star slugger Teoscar Hernández and two-time Gold Glove second baseman Kolten Wong. The rest of Seattle’s additions have been more under the radar, however – namely a one-year deal for reliever Trevor Gott and a trade for catcher/outfielder Cooper Hummel in a one-for-one swap for Kyle Lewis. The club’s top-ranked prospect and winner of its Mr. Mariner Award -- earned by the Minor Leaguer who displays “exemplary play and leadership” -- showed off a well-rounded skill set in his first full season.
Mariners defeat Pirates in 11 innings to complete sweep
Rizzo has repeated levels twice in the past four seasons -- he spent 2018 and 2019 in Modesto, a High-A club at the time -- and is currently a free agent. So here we are, with a club that I am overwhelmingly excited about and yet exceedingly frustrated with. I do not wish to rob anyone of their well-earned excitement for the coming season, which should be an exciting one.
In addition to No. 2 prospect Emerson Hancock and impact rookie George Kirby, Seattle also had the Northwest League Pitcher of the Year and the Cal League Pitcher of the Year finish the season in the system. We have all the answers on the Mariners pitching rotation including current ERA and win counts. Bookmark this page and check-in daily to see who is taking the pitcher’s mound in Seattle. I also want to clarify this argument, because I’ve seen a few consistent complaints or retorts which I believe can be cleared up fairly easily.
And to be honest, they have a pretty tough team to contend with there in Houston – and an improved Texas team, as well. If there’s one thing we know about Jerry Dipoto, even though I might think that they’re close to being ready for the season, he probably disagrees and will likely make another couple of trades. I think Wong (as a left-handed hitter) addresses some of the issues with a lack of balance… Teoscar Hernández, we’ve talked about him, I’m a big fan of his. I think he will really address some of the issues they had maybe about being able to hit the big home runs and drive in runs against really good pitching. There's a stacked group of right-handed starters in the Mariners system.
We’ll start with the topic of the past week and a half, which we also discussed in depth on the Lookout Landing podcast. If you listened, this article covers a decent amount of similar ground. Ichiro Suzuki played his final MLB game in the second game of the season.
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Adding that player to this Mariners team is how they take the next step from good to great, as one disgruntled 710 AM host put it recently. Bogaerts similarly offered a pathway to massive stability, as well as few of the associations that might have been a dealbreaker with regards to Correa and his involvement with the Trash Can Astros. Instead Seattle returned their lineup to a similar state as the start of 2022, with Teoscar in place of Haniger and Kolten Wong in place of Adam Frazier, a pair of upgrades Steamer projects to be around a one-WAR boost to the club, though the loss of Jesse Winker leaves them with a more tenuous lineup. It’s not a bad lineup necessarily, but it is risky, making the previous moves and their present inaction all the more surprising.
They are closer to Cleveland at 24th than the Dodgers at 10th or even the Rangers at 12th. They are, as I noted recently, so far off the mean and median MLB payroll that signing Carlos Correa would have moved them up to barely scraping 15th or 16th in the league. Even signing both Correa and Brandon Nimmo would merely stretch the M’s into around 11th in payroll. However you may feel about the decisions of the M’s front office and ownership group this winter (and I of course hope you’ll feel closer to how I do by the end of this article), this is a rather unimpeachable starting ground.
He elected free agency again after the season but re-signed again with the Mariners on Thursday. Dollard went 16-2 with a 2.25 ERA over 27 starts in Arkansas, striking out 131 batters in 144 innings while holding opposing batters to a .203 average. His ERA was the lowest among qualified pitchers in the organization by nearly a run, and his 1.94 walks per nine innings was also tops in the system. The club’s No. 7 prospect made 18 starts in which he allowed one or no runs. Special theme nights include Star Wars Night, Lou Piniella Lou-Au Hawaiian Shirt Night, Earth, Wind & Fireworks Night, and many others. Most of that additional spending came in the form of contract extensions to Julio Rodríguez and Luis Castillo, moves that strengthen the long-term competitiveness of the organization and provide cost-certainty for the club in the present and future.
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