Thoughts? Interesting to read that “Houston’s Jose Altuve topped batters with 5.6 projected runs gained, followed by Seattle’s Cal Raleigh (4.6)” which given amount of time Cal was out is impressive. Overall I was disappointed in how the Mariners used (or didn’t use, or used poorly…) ABS challenges this year, but loved the addition to the game. Really hoping that we are better able to take advantage of it better next year.

Another season has come and gone, and its time for us to close the book on the year. Thank you to everyone who took the time to vote for the awards and respond to the handful of "survey" questions. There were 179 responses this year, and only one was scrubbed entirely. You'll see quite a few of the questions have fewer responses as some folks chose not to answer questions or their joke responses have been omitted. And yes this is a repost because I broke my post when trying to edit it a bit. Below are the past years’ results if you're interested in looking back. We'll start with the "survey" responses, and then on to the awards!

2025 Results

2024 Results

2023 Results

2022 Results

2021 Results

Who was your Favorite Mariner?

Congratulations to Cole Young on being the Fan Favorite!

^{Colt Emerson, Brendan Donovan, Humpy, George Kirby, Kade Anderson, Logan Gilbert, Michael Arroyo, Rick Rizzs, and Victor Robles each received one vote.}

Who was the Mariners MVP?

Congratulations to Randy Arozarena on being the Mariners MVP!

^{Cal Raleigh, Emerson Hancock, Josh Naylor, J.P. Crawford, Julio Rodríguez, and Logan Gilbert each received one vote.}

I don't have too many big takeaways from this year's awards. Gilbert's SPOTY award makes his third, meaning he's won half of them.

2027 Arb projections for all teams are out from Trade Rumors.

Here are the projections for the 17 Mariners who are arb eligible. Any of these players can also be mon-tendered, but the projections are below.

Click the link to read the article or to see other team’s projections.

Seattle Mariners (15)
Logan Gilbert (5.144): $15.4MM
Brendan Donovan (5.000): $6.1MM
Gabe Speier (5.000): $3.3MM
George Kirby (4.151): $9.8MM
Patrick Wisdom (4.135): $1.1MM
Matt Brash (4.121): $1.8MM
Luke Raley (4.106): $3.1MM
Bryce Miller (3.153): $3.9MM (Mariners hold a $6.075MM option with $15K buyout)
Bryan Woo (3.121): $5.2MM
Eduard Bazardo (3.118): $1.5MM
Jose A. Ferrer (3.094): $1.6MM
Michael Rucker (3.069): $800K
Dominic Canzone (3.014): $3MM
Cooper Criswell (2.143): $900K
Carlos Vargas (2.140): $800K

Was browsing random players and came across this guy. This guy was made for Jerry. I actually wouldn't be suprised if Jerry already has his numbers printed out and pinned on his wall.

Andujar is a certified Lefty Masher. Over his career, he's hit .292/.329/.461 against lefties. Interestingly his OPS is an additional 20 points higher against lefty starters, showing he could be a major option in the leadoff spot against lefties.

A glance at his statcast page shows he was down significantly in most categories over the year prior. This of course means that he's due for a bounce back as his trends revert to normal.

He'll be 32. This is not a knock, rather his age will play a factor into him signing below market value, a significant factor that will allow Jerry room to make a Major Addition at the trade deadline.

He can play outfield, first, and third! Of course he doesn't really do any of these well, but having positional flexibility makes a player inherently valuable, according to Jerry. He's also slow as a rock, which doesn't really matter when walking or hitting dingerz.

He had a Monster Year in the past. In 2018, Andujar hit .297/.328/.527 and finished 2nd in ROTY voting to some guy named Ohtani. This shows that that kind of production is in there, somewhere, and could possibly be unlocked with a trip to Driveline.

He's battled an incredible assortment of injuries throughout his career. Not only does this display resiliency, but has led to him developing a fun, folksy, just-happy-to-be-here attitude in interviews (check out his Padres and Reds stuff) that will make him an instant fan favorite regardless of preformance.

I fully expect the Mariners to sign this guy. He's the most Jerry Mariner who hasn't Marinered yet.

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He's got a club option next year but I doubt we pick that up.

His bat isn't very good but he is good defensively, so that'd fit with a renewed focus on defense.

With Lovullo off the market, who would be your next pick for manager?

Is he close to returning?

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I thought you might all enjoy this little tidbit. I believe that’s now six straight losses in the playoffs for Houston now.

My girlfriend made me a custom Mariners wallchart (in PowerPoint!) in the days before Opening Day to track what we expected to be a fun Mariners season. This is the result.

You may notice the stickers trailing off in the second half. She told me after the Rangers series "I'll make more if they win three in a row."

I am listening to the Astros-White Sox game right now (hoping to hear the Astros get knocked out.)

Wow does it make me appreciate Rick Rizzs and Gary Hill. These Astros announcers are ok, but I didn't fully realize how exceptional Rick and Gary are until hearing others.

(Edit: Sorry I left the "s" off Rizzs in the title, which Reddit doesn't let you edit)

Minor leaguer Nolan Jones, who we acquired in the Luis Castillo trade, has elected free agency.

As we roll into the offseason, there’s obvious wondering about who the next manager will be and I think whoever is hired as the next manager is the make or break for whether this teams window closed last year or it gets extended 5+ years.

I’m sure we can all agree this season was an absolute disaster and I think the biggest reason was fragility, this was essentially bound to happen if one piece of the team didn’t absolutely carry. Cal hitting 60 historic home-runs last year and the pitching having a historic year prior are pretty much the reason those teams had 80+ wins.

Dipoto is great at development and the numbers have shown that in recent years, consistently having 4+ Top 100 prospects. He has a great process for his farm system.

What Dipoto has yet to do in all his years as general manager and I think is definitely capable of doing is finding a manager who has a clear strong defined approach and building around the manager instead of trying to implement his own strategy and process.

A great example is the guys across the street, the Seahawks. I don’t how many people watch them in here but John Schneider has done a great job at finding a guy with a clear scheme, identity and approach in Mike Macdonald and understanding it and sourcing the players/staff that fit it.

Dipoto is good at acquiring dudes who are good players. Taylor Ward is a good player and acquiring him was a good idea because the team was struggling against lefties. But it was more of a patch instead of a fix and that was because there wasn’t a clear role for him, and there wasn’t a clear role for him because Dipoto didn’t have a manager with a clear approach/identity. So acquiring Ward was more a statistical fit than schematic fit.

I think the biggest thing that stands in Dipoto’s way is himself. He’s shown good signs of progress by saying he’s exploring outside the organization and looking for fresh thought.

But the biggest thing that stands between this team and truly competing for a championship is Dipoto not only finding that “fresh thought” but understanding it and supplying a pipeline of schematic talent to it.

it’s great to see Ty France doing so well with the Padres. He was one of my favorite players when he was with the Mariners. However, I’m always a little sad and disappointed when I see ex-Mariners in the playoffs and being successful but we got rid of them. Teoscar is the other one that comes to mind. I guess he was struggling with the Mariners and so it made sense at the time, but he sure has blossomed with the Padres.

Anyway, I thought it would just be interesting to compare his productivity with Josh. Their stats are remarkably identical. Seems like we just swapped them.

Not feeling great about the mariners and want to hear some good stuff!

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No 54 percent jokes please. I'm really stumped on what to think of him.

I kept my pocket schedule posted at my desk and tracked wins, losses, and my own game attendance all season. The gold stars were certainly a fun bit.

One of my good friends recommended that we burn this now considering how the season went.

I figured I’d share here before it’s ashes.

The commentary on each series stopped once it stopped mattering

Bought the thing for 10 bucks. Giving it to my mom as a thanks for buying Seahawks season tickets lmao