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Campbell, who lost significant time with an elbow injury last year, made four starts in April, allowing three runs over 18 total innings. Upon returning from the IL, he made just one appearance that lasted longer than an inning and was excellent. Campbell finished with a 1.57 ERA and 59 strikeouts over 46 innings and was added to the 40-man roster at the end of the year. His 11 triples were also the most in the organization, and his efforts were rewarded with a spot on the club’s 40-man roster, where he is the youngest player by nearly 18 months. Seattle’s No. 12 prospect had hit exclusively from the left side during in his first two Minor League seasons, but he re-learned the art of switch-hitting while rehabbing an injury that cut short his 2021 campaign.
The Astros, meanwhile, lost 2022 AL Cy Young Award winner Justin Verlander and replaced first baseman Yuli Gurriel with 2020 AL MVP José Abreu, who will turn 36 in January. Some other veteran pieces for Houston, including utility player Aledmys Díaz and catcher Christian Vázquez, have also left in free agency. The Mariners return from Japan directly to Seattle for two exhibition games on Monday and Tuesday, March 25-26, against the San Diego Padres, before the regular season Opening Night on Thursday, March 28, against the Boston Red Sox. Estimated delivery dates - opens in a new window or tab include seller's handling time, origin ZIP Code, destination ZIP Code and time of acceptance and will depend on shipping service selected and receipt of cleared payment. Cleared payment cleared payment - opens in a new window or tab. If Seattle is following the Houston model, they’re certainly not showing the same willingness the Astros showed in improving the club around their core with free agency at this same stage of the process, much less the willingness to chase bigger signings.
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In his first year stateside, Gonzalez bashed his way out of Rookie ball and fit right in playing in the Cal League at 18 years old. The club’s third-ranked prospect hit .286 with a .789 OPS over the final 32 games of the season with Modesto. There's more to the 20-year-old’s game than just his blazing speed, which gets a 70-grade from MLB Pipeline. In addition to leading the organization with 55 steals, Clase collected 46 extra-base hits, including 13 that left the yard, while batting .267 with an .836 OPS in his first full season for Modesto. The Mariners dealt a pair of talented shortstop prospects to the Reds in the Luis Castillo deal, but the 27-year-old McCoy earned this nod regardless with an excellent first season in the Seattle system.
With the Washington Nationals winning the World Series during the 2019 postseason, the Mariners now hold the dubious distinction of being the only MLB franchise to have never played in the World Series. All images are property the copyright holder and are displayed here for informational purposes only. Much of the play-by-play, game results, and transaction information both shown and used to create certain data sets was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by RetroSheet. Please note that players may not be in the uniform of the correct team in these images. MLB Network reporter Jon Morosi shared his thoughts on that when he joined Seattle Sports’ Wyman and Bob last Wednesday for his weekly segment on the show. No other spring-training information, including when tickets officially go on sale and when players report, was released.
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However, they are also commitments to players already in the organization, spending to hold serve as opposed to actions to add to a roster that would have had Rodríguez and Castillo on it regardless in 2023. More on the “future commitments” comments in a moment, but first... While the Mariners are in Japan, a squad made up of players in Mariners Major League camp who are not part of the Japan travelling party, including top prospects, will remain in Arizona for a game against the Cubs at Sloan Park in Mesa on March 19, and two games at Peoria against the Cincinnati Reds and the Los Angeles Angels .
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The Mariners’ No. 20 prospect led the organization with 27 homers, 114 RBIs and 100 runs scored between Modesto and Everett. Take the 28-year-old Correa, for instance, whose deal I’ve seen frequently compared to Canó’s. I will wait, but please, visit Robinson Canó’s Baseball Reference or FanGraphs page and look at his age-28 thru age-34 seasons.
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.
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Public payroll tracking varies slightly from site to site but seems broadly in keeping with teams’ internal accounting. Cot’s Contracts holds that the Mariners have been between 10th-23rd in MLB in overall payroll since 2009, peaking in 2018. Since 2018 they’ve “stepped back” payroll, as their aging core was shipped off or allowed to depart, dropping to 13th in 2019, 17th in 2020, 23rd in 2021, and 22nd in 2022. Per FanGraphs, they project as the 17th-highest payroll again in 2023 when accounting for pre-arbitration and arbitration projections for all clubs. Knowing that led to high expectations for Seattle’s offseason, and it appears a segment of the fan base feels the M’s have fallen short so far.
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.
The 24-year-old made the most of his second season in the Texas League. Rizzo, who the Mariners selected with the No. 50 overall pick in the 2016 Draft, reached career highs with 21 homers, 69 RBIs, 30 doubles and 84 runs scored. The New Jersey native batted .277 with an .810 OPS and 135 hits in his sixth pro season. The lefty swinger also held his own against southpaws and actually hit for a higher slugging percentage (.472) against them.
The 31-year-old at-signing 2B played five seasons in Seattle, outperforming his contract on a $/WAR basis and then getting traded alongside RHP Edwin Díaz for a package that has helped Seattle build a contender directly and indirectly. Notably, both teams paying the bulk of Canó’s contract made the playoffs last year, and were competitive the year before, despite this seemingly unfathomable albatross. Lastly, having a cheap roster only is as “valuable” as a team is willing to take advantage of those low costs in some places to allocate funds and improve in others. Atlanta has managed to keep their nose ahead of the rest of the NL East for several years, in large part due to expert development, staggeringly low-cost extensions signed for several of their stars, a geographical advantage over many clubs, and, it must be noted, a significant cheating scandal of their own. But their advantages are being tested by the Mets and reigning NL pennant winners Philadelphia Phillies, who have, somewhat like the Texas Rangers, decided the best pathway to relevance is signing stars to beef up the big league club and allowing them to give their farm system time to develop. Let me make this point abundantly clear, if there were a clear, cheap pathway to improving the roster at this stage, I would have no issue with Seattle pursuing it.
