Mariners offseason thread 2025-26

[Ruminator]

I have the feeling M's will make a big-time trade.

 

[Shane Falco]

I have the feeling M's will make a big-time trade.

I feel it too. It must be so.

 

[Glasgow Seahawk]

This trade, plus cutting Garver loose makes me wonder if a deal for a solid free agent catcher is iin the works. Danny Jansen or Victor Caratini? Someone who could catch enough games so that Cal doesn't have to be behind the plate 130 games a year?

Of course, Jansen and Caratini aren't in the same league as Cal defensively, but they wouldn't be bad as backups.

It sounds like Garver might be coming back on a cheap deal

 

[sutz]

It sounds like Garver might be coming back on a cheap deal

I could live with it, though I think we could do better, if not at backup catcher at least at DH.

 

[Glasgow Seahawk]

What would you give up for Marte that would make you feel comfortable?

 

[SoulfishHawk]

Stuff

 

[Wsumatt1982]

What would you give up for Marte that would make you feel comfortable?

Nothing. Don't want Marte. I hear he's a locker room cancer from various people. Don't know if there's any truth to hear but I've read that a few places.

 

[SoulfishHawk]

Nah, he comes here, he'll buy in or Cal will break him in half.

 

[bileever]

Nothing. Don't want Marte. I hear he's a locker room cancer from various people. Don't know if there's any truth to hear but I've read that a few places.

Yes, Marte did some weird inexplicable stuff last season, including taking a family vacation mid-season completely without permission, and without even telling the team. He even missed his own bobblehead night:

Ketel Marte apologizes while Arizona Diamondbacks go into full-scale damage control

The Arizona Diamondbacks went into full-blown damage control trying to defuse the escalating criticism of All-Star second baseman Ketel Marte.

www.usatoday.com

Also, the year before that, when the Diamondbacks missed the playoffs by one game, he asked to sit out games when he was perfectly healthy.

Arizona fans have been generally supportive of Marte and want him back, but he also gets heckled by fans in his home stadium.

 

[SoulfishHawk]

Dude is a hell of a hitter. This team could use one of those.

 

[Shane Falco]

I don't know either way but one of the things about the M's last season was the locker room. They had a good one.

 

[Ruminator]

Thoughts on getting a batter, straight from Dipoto:

 

[Glasgow Seahawk]

Thoughts on getting a batter, straight from Dipoto:

Guessing they are putting some pressure on Polanco although it sounds like Polanco is asking for a kings ransom currently.

 

[Shane Falco]

Just one more bat, hope it's a damn good one. Hope the starting pitching has a bounce back year.

 

[sutz]

Thoughts on getting a batter, straight from Dipoto:

Well, that kind of rules out bringing Geno back.

 

[SoulfishHawk]

geK

 

[Glasgow Seahawk]

 

[Glasgow Seahawk]

I'll believe it when I see it but bregman would be awesome

 

[bileever]

I like Alex Bregman, but $180 million is too much. He's looking for a 5-6 year deal, and he's going to be 32, which means that you'll be paying well into his declining years. He is without a doubt a great hitter, but he hasn't hit over 30 HRs except in 2018 and 2019. If he hits 18 HRs in Fenway Park (or let's say 25 since he was injured for part of the year), what's will that translate to in T-Mobile Park?

Given that Scott Boras is his agent, and the fact that Pete Alonso just got $155 million/5 years from the Orioles, Bregman is going to be pretty expensive.

 

[NoGain]

Geez...they should negotiate a yearly limit on these contracts. Four or five years tops sounds about right.