Mariner Talk Chat Forum

One fault with this draft simulator is that it makes it seem like trading back and gaining lots of draft value is normal. I don't think teams are making those types of offers that much in reality and instead of gaining hundreds of points in trade value (from the draft trade value chart) it is much ...

Just looked and it was a four year deal for Bochte for $126k a year. lol 28k as a rookie ha Screenshot 2025-04-11 11.08.12 AM.png Yeah that's crazy. Even with inflation that 126k per year would be less than rookie minimum today. If Bocthe hit the market today coming off a 2.1 WAR season at age 26 h...

Hanger played in Arizona before he got to Seattle. If you are going to count him then you should count Nelson Cruz who only needed 4 seasons to hit 163 bombs.

Did some digging. The M’s First official Free agent signing was reliever Byron McLauglin on January 8 1977. He was more of a minor league signing though. He had been pitching in Mexico and only made one appearance for the M’s in 1977. Everyone else on the 1977 team was either drafted in the expansio...

Donn Beach wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 09, 2025 2:48 pm

Pete O'Brien was the mariners first ever free agent signing, so there was fanfare. Yeah, he was a disappoinment

O'Brien came to the M's in 1990. Are you trying to tell me they didn't sign any free agents in their 1st 13 years of existence?

Here is an interesting one. Trades galore. I am really not interested in Milroe but he just kept falling He is ranked 35 so I eventually pulled the trigger on him at 79. Got 11 players ranked in their top 100. A lot of guys were falling to me at positions of need. Williams is ranked 86, I nearly too...

He would have been out by 20 feet.

I think the success of those early drafts - particularly 2010-2012 -,which i think were the result of a combination of great scouting and luck, really messed with JS' head and caused him to believe that he was the smartest guy in the GM room and could find find gems where no-one else thought to loo...

Ketel marte signed another extension, looks like another very reasonable deal for the dbacks The Marte trade is quickly looking like another Jerry failure... That was a good trade for both teams, just in terms of the players involved. We got three good seasons out of Haniger, two good seasons out o...

D-train wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 02, 2025 6:00 pm

My God 5-9 of this lineup. Just horrific.

The whole lineup is terrible. 1-4 are hitting a combined .170