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Seattle can rightfully bank on or hope for continued strides from their many young players, but they also will be hoping for similarly atypical health from their starting rotation and continued performance from several lineup regulars with question marked profiles. 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. So now we’ve come to the tough part - not every free agent is signable for the Seattle Mariners, and even if they have the highest bid it’s no sure thing they’ll get them.
It is the first major league ball park built since Memorial Stadium in Milwaukee collapsed in 1971. Before that, Seatlle had been without a major league team for more than 30 years - the longest period of time between the end of one team and the beginning of another. They have had several all-time great players wear the uniform of the M's including Edgar Martinez, Alex Rodriguez, Randy Johnson, Ken Griffey Jr., and Mike Lowell. A former MVP and three-time champion, Edgar Martinez is the longest tenured player for the Mariners and played his last game on September 30, 2009. He has hit over 400 balls in play during his career and is one of the most consistent hitters in MLB history.
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However, as represented in the header photo for this article, the club’s investment since the end of the 00s has mostly matched their performance, which is to say unremarkable. 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.
The M's have made the playoffs five times but have never advanced past the Division Series. The Seattle Mariners are a professional baseball club headquartered in Seattle, Washington, United States. They are a part of the American League West division in Major League Baseball . The franchise entered the American League as an expansion team in 1977, with home games held at the Kingdome. That stadium was destroyed by arson in 2000, and the Mariners have not returned to Seattle since then. Take the 28-year-old Correa, for instance, whose deal I’ve seen frequently compared to Canó’s.
Okay, they’re below-average in spending, but they’re following the Astros/Braves model!
That has increased to include channels for all 32 teams and 10 official league channels, including NFL Films, NFL Network and Mundo NFL. It could still reach that total since the league retains commercial rights to bars and restaurants and is in the midst of selling those rights. The satellite provider has paid $1.5 billion per year on an eight-year contract that expires at the end of this season. Milone spent the majority of the 2022 season with Triple-A Tacoma and maintained a 2.68 ERA with a 1.02 WHIP across 40.1 innings. He appeared as a reliever for short stints in Seattle and will likely serve as organizational depth once again in 2023.
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Agreed Wednesday on a minor-league contract, Jon Heyman of the New York Post reports. Seattle opens at home against Cleveland, part of a seven-game homestand wherein they also host the Angels. They also get their typical April trip to the midwest, this time facing Cleveland on the road in early April as well as trekking to Wrigley Field for the first time since 2016.
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. If you think the AL Central has multiple threats, you’re bold, but almost each club will at least be around a .500 club or closer to it than they were in 2022. Dipoto mentioned in a discussion at the winter meetings that Seattle is near the top of the league in financial commitments. Though he referenced the club being 2nd in committed payroll in 2026 and high up in the intervening seasons as well, they have obviously fallen significantly in the past week and a half as free agents have signed.
This is when clubs make “augmentations,” as the team phrased it, to get to that next level. 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. 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. 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.
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I will wait, but please, visit Robinson Canó’s Baseball Reference or FanGraphs page and look at his age-28 thru age-34 seasons. 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.
Even signing both Correa and Brandon Nimmo would merely stretch the M’s into around 11th in payroll. 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.
The Mariners have only won 90 or more games three times, but they've also finished last two seasons with 100 or more losses. MLB's worst record , in 2001, was improved upon the following year when the Mariners went on to win the AL West title. Ken Griffey Jr., one of the league's best hitters during the 1990s, led the charge for Seattle. He finished his Mariner career as the all-time leader in hits , runs batted in , and total bases .
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. 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.
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