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Prospect Insider covers the draft, prospects and the Seattle Mariners, with an eye toward scouting and player development.
Prospect Insider
3M ago
The New York Yankees pulled off two significant trades from the Winter Meetings in Nashville, landing Alex Verdugo from the Boston Red Sox and Juan Soto from the San Diego Padres.
Not to suggest the Seattle Mariners should have matched or surpassed the offers for the two left-handed hitting outfielders — they shouldn’t have, both are headed for free agency after the year and the cost was exhorbitant considering the Mariners’ position and resources — but here are the Mariners equivalents to both deals.
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Prospect Insider
4M ago
Steamer projects the Seattle Mariners to have seven players with significant playing time to finish the season with a 100 wRC+ or higher — six of those with more than 100 games played, five with at least 120 games played.
I’m not a big believer in projection systems. Not ones that projects wins for baseball teams and not those that predict season-long performance for individual players.
But they can be good for shedding light on some things, such as which players have positive trends and which don’t, among other things.
One of those systems is Steamer, as seen at FanGraphs. Steamer’s exact ..read more
Prospect Insider
4M ago
The Seattle Mariners have roster inefficiencies, to put it kindly, and impact acquisitions, plural, are necessary if they are to take the step they’ve always planned for in their trek to be a consistent World Series contender.
The club has the option to be competitive in free agency, but the market may not bear what the organization needs, payroll aggression or not. A trade or two may be necessary.
My Top 5o Free Agents
President of baseball operations Jerry Dipoto and GM Justin Hollander — good morning, gentleman — have made several deals with the National League West the past several yea ..read more
Prospect Insider
4M ago
The Seattle Mariners have roster inefficiencies, to put it kindly, and impact acquisitions, plural, are necessary if they are to take the step they’ve always planned for in their trek to be a consistent World Series contender.
The club has the option to be competitive in free agency, but the market may not bear what the organization needs, payroll aggression or not. A trade or two may be necessary.
Churchill's Offseason Plan
President of baseball operations Jerry Dipoto and GM Justin Hollander — good morning, gentleman — have made several deals with the National League West the past severa ..read more
Prospect Insider
4M ago
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The Seattle Mariners have roster inefficiencies, to put it kindly, and impact acquisitions, plural, are necessary if they are to take the step they’ve always planned for in their trek to be a consistent World Series contender.
The club has the option to be competitive in free agency, but the market may not bear what the organization needs, payroll aggression or not. A trade or two may be necessary.
Churchill's Offseason Plan
President of baseball operations Jerry Dipoto and GM Justin Hollander — sup, gents? — have made numerous deals with the National League East the past sev ..read more
Prospect Insider
4M ago
The stove is warming. It’s on.
Now that we know the results of all the club, player, and mutual options, as well as the qualifying offers, let’s talk free agency.
Here are my Top 50 MLB Free Agents.
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Prospect Insider
4M ago
Regardless of where the Seattle Mariners rank in payroll or their stance on elite free-agent contracts, paying the freight for big-ticket, one-year fixes are not only a bad idea, but absolute worst path the club could take this winter.
Three names keeps popping up in this conversation: Juan Soto, Pete Alonso, and Paul Goldschmidt. They aren’t all the sam…
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Prospect Insider
4M ago
There is one kinda-fun thing about the Seattle Mariners having not made a major deal costing prospects at the trade deadline earlier this month: The boost to the farm system.
While winning at the big-league level is more important, the fact the Mariners held onto their top talents to allow them continued growth will pay dividends down the line, either in…
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Prospect Insider
4M ago
Subscribers to Baseball Things have heard me repeat this for years, but it’s worth going over in more detail. Basing a buy-or-sell decision in July on the club’s current playoff positioning is a missed opportunity.
The Seattle Mariners are not a rebuilding club. They aren’t an aging roster on the downside, either. But they are a team shy of impact offens…
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Prospect Insider
4M ago
The below Seattle Mariners-specific draft board is about my personal preferences if I were running the Mariners’ draft and does not include potential signability issues — under slot, over slot, likelihood to sign.
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