Happy Pitchers and Catchers report day Spring Training thread

[D-train]

Not the usual excitement that is typically bestowed on the is day but baseball is finally back.

Go M's!

[D-train]

Bullpen sucked last season. Crazy that relying on a bunch of scrap heap guys wasn't a sustainable plan.

2024 review
For three seasons from 2021 through 2023, the bullpen was the most underrated component of the Mariners’ overall pitching success. 


In 2024, the script flipped. The bullpen became the underrated component of the Mariners’ decline.

The bullpen did finish with a respectable 3.71 ERA, but that marked the highest ERA from a Seattle ‘pen since 2001. Mariners relievers last season also allowed their highest rate of home runs — 1.12 per nine innings — in five years.

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And from Aug. 1 on, Seattle’s bullpen ranked 29th out of 30 MLB teams in fWAR (minus-0.3).

“It’s maybe the thing that got us most in the last two months of last season, was a bullpen that got tired,” president of baseball operations Jerry Dipoto said. “We pushed really hard on guys like Andrés Muñoz and ‘Voter’ (Austin Voth) and Trent Thornton, and they were all pitching a lot and in very high leverage all the time.”

[D-train]

Jesus this place is dead.

Sometimes Sodomojo puts out some good content but other times the come up with complete nonsense. We have Raley and Solano set at 1st base both with well over 800 OPS for their platoon sides but they want to bring in Torkelson who had a .669 OPS last season and a 0.3 bWAR.

https://sodomojo.com/building-a-mariner ... -torkelson

[GL_Storm]

Jesus this place is dead.

Sometimes Sodomojo puts out some good content but other times the come up with complete nonsense. We have Raley and Solano set at 1st base both with well over 800 OPS for their platoon sides but they want to bring in Torkelson who had a .669 OPS last season and a 0.3 bWAR.

https://sodomojo.com/building-a-mariner ... -torkelson

They're just bored. Torkelson is probably done but somebody will give Detroit a token prospect and see what he can do.

[D-train]

Even Shannon recognized the infield is ridiculous.

https://sports.mynorthwest.com/mlb/seat ... gs/1799361

[Double Mocha Man]

Jesus this place is dead.

Sometimes Sodomojo puts out some good content but other times the come up with complete nonsense. We have Raley and Solano set at 1st base both with well over 800 OPS for their platoon sides but they want to bring in Torkelson who had a .669 OPS last season and a 0.3 bWAR.

https://sodomojo.com/building-a-mariner ... -torkelson

Hey DT, I'm here. But I've got to prep for happy hour so I'm gone. Poof!

[TLO Idaho]

Jesus this place is dead.

Sometimes Sodomojo puts out some good content but other times the come up with complete nonsense. We have Raley and Solano set at 1st base both with well over 800 OPS for their platoon sides but they want to bring in Torkelson who had a .669 OPS last season and a 0.3 bWAR.

https://sodomojo.com/building-a-mariner ... -torkelson

They're just bored. Torkelson is probably done but somebody will give Detroit a token prospect and see what he can do.

4th round pick at best

[Donn Beach]

Torkelson was the number one overall pick due to his huge power, kinda like a guy in our system, they can fade quickly

[D-train]

Torkelson was the number one overall pick due to his huge power, kinda like a guy in our system, they can fade quickly

Perfect comp other than the Locklear being a 2 rounder which has been Jerry's kryptonite.

[Donn Beach]

I was thinking of Montes