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mariners 2023: eliminated on last day of the season. the team that took their spot did this:  no, not bitter at all offseason: team declared "we strike out too much"  stay tuned to this space as robbie ray comes back after the all star break to go 9-0 with a 1.70 ERA and 14 strikeouts per 9 with the giants they DID do some free agent spending. however Desperately Sorting Through The Dented Cans Aisle Mitch Garver, DH/C 2024 strikeout percentage, to date: 12.5% the mariners decided their headline FA pickup would be to pay for two years of the decline phase of the backup catcher / dh of the aformentioned world series champion texas rangers. he's never had more than 359 plate appearances in a season, at 33 is the definition of "guy you put at catcher once a week at most to minimize the damage", and is as likely to spend half the season with boneitis and ops .550 as he is to be a semicompetent bat, but on the other hand it is only two years, leaving him ready to be pawned off for some recently dfaed guy in june of 2025 Ryne Stanek, RHP RP the star closer of the astros, he had an off year last year and the astros let him go and was unsigned into spring training and a few mariners relievers had minor injuries so he was signed on a 1 year deal for $4mm. they already have a million reliever so he's probably the role of "setup guy traded to a contender for an untarnished prospect in july when the mariners are languishing along at like 45-47" Austin Voth, RHP RP i have no clue who this guy is. baseball reference said his best season was 2019 on the nationals, but after that has languished as a home-run-happy swingman for the nationals and later the orioles. it's a 1 year deal for $1.3mm. moving on Notable Losses  moving on The 2024 Seattle Mariners C: Cal Raleigh 2024 Strikeout Percentage: 31.6% lots of power, lots of strikeouts, good catcher defense, hit a home run in 2022 that the mariners advertising crew is going to milk for 20 loving years. 1B: Ty France 2024 Strikeout Percentage: 22.2% 120 OPS+ mainstay for a while, underwhelmed last season, spent the offseason fixing his problems, seems to be fixed and 2023 was an aberration buckle up now folks, it's allllll downhill from here  2B: Jorge Polanco 2024 Strikeout Percentage: 42.9%  mariners had a gaping hole at second thanks to kolten wong, so the mariners decided to trade for a guy the twins were willing to trade for a guy that's already pencilled in to hit a walk off three run homer against the mariners in 2028. currently has four hits in 26 at bats with 12 strikeouts. SS: JP Crawford 2024 Strikeout Percentage: 20.7% traded from the phillies, has been a mainstay at short for a few years. starting 2024 off slow, but that's the entire loving roster outside of like three people, so whatever. will probably bounce back. 3B: Josh Rojas / Luis Urias platoon 2024 Strikeout Percentage: 25.0% (Rojas), 35.7% (Urias) Part 1 of the This Guy Makes Too Much Money Saga, the mariners traded off Eugenio Suarez to the diamondbacks and replaced him with a platoon of guys on the fringes of their previous MLB rosters. Urias looks terrible but Rojas might be a keeper so i wouldn't be surprised to see the platoon experiment given up on and just giving rojas the position full time. LF: Dom Canzone 2024 Strikeout Percentage: 47.1% theoretically, a slow, lumbering bat-first corner outfielder that didn't have a place in the diamond backs offense. the reality is "roll a d20 and if it's a natural 20 it's a home run and anything less is a popup or strikeout". CF: Julio Rodriguez came onto the game by storm in 2022, winning the rookie of the year with a 147 OPS+ can do it all, bat, glove, looks, the whole shebang. the mariners declared if the future of the franchise and gave him infinity billion dollars for the next zillions. if he has a problem, it's that he knows at times the whole team's on his back, presses, going into slumps, and has at bats like this:  which leads to incredibly infuriating slumps. on the other hand he's 23 and will learn to handle it better. this is the bright spot of the mariners hitting future. RF: Mitch Haniger 2024 Strikeout Percentage: 23.1% lineup mainstay for a while a few years back, signed a moderate free agent deal with the giants, sucked and was hurt there, traded back in the robbie ray deal. will hit well as long as he's not hurt DH: Mitch Garver played for rangers, good if brittle hitter, you already read this above BENCH: Luke Raley Seby Zavala Dylan Moore these three couldn't crack the lineup of an offense that everybody expected to be below average and is currently meeting expectations i'm not going into it beyond the fact that luke raley might come through with a few big hits or two this season, dylan moores a utility guy that's surprisingly better with the bat than you'd expect at "a little bit below league average", and zavalas a backup catcher on his third team that hits like a backup catcher on his third team" ROTATION Luis Castillo George Kirby Logan Gilbert Emerson Hancock Bryce Miller i'm gonna do these all in a clump for reasons that will become eviden Luis Castillo Traded from the Reds to the Mariners for a pile of shortstop prospects in a 2022 deadline deal, took over as the ace of the rotation and has pitched like it. mainly the ace because he's 31 and not much else. George Kirby Logan Gilbert Emerson Hancock Bryce Miller all between the ages of 25 and 27, all nasty stuff, all excellent pitchers, the backbone of any hopes of a playoff appearance is on these five pitchers. they even have a few people in the minors that are only slightly less good than this for the expected arm injuries. if theres any difference, bryce millers a little less strikeout-y and a little more groundbally than the others, i guess BULLPEN Andres Munoz Cody Bolton Austin Voth Trent Thorton Tayler Saucedo Ryne Stanek Gabe Speier they're relievers in 2024. near triple digit heat, wipeout breaking stuff, able to come in and get the last 3 or 4 innings after the starters are pulled because it's 2024 and 7 innings is a workhorse start. these pitchers are boring because they're competent. Josh Rojas yeah we're eight loving games in and there's already been a game they brought in the third baseman to pitch. he induced a double play. this is one of the highlights from the season so far PREDICTION  they heat up after the slowest most infuriating start in team history, alternate good streaks with more infuriating streaks, finish 83-78 a few games out a playoff spot, and i hate life a little more Craig K fucked around with this message at 20:01 on Apr 6, 2024 |
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