Ketel Marte Would be a PERFECT 2026 Seattle Mariner!

Ketel Marte Would be a PERFECT 2026 Seattle Mariner!

The GM meetings are going currently down in Las Vegas. All 30 GMs from around the league are in one spot and there might be some interesting conversations going on there. Jordan and I are going to talk about the free agents that are around the league that could be stopping in at those GM meetings and having some conversations. We’re going to give you guys our FanDuel favorites. We’re then going to talk about some articles from Ryan Divish talking about the Mariners plans this offseason and wrap it all up by talking about a potential Cel Marte reunion. Could the Mariners trade for the All-Star second baseman? Thank you guys so much for watching episode 248 of the Hit It Here podcast, part of the Believe Network and presented by FanDuel. And this is the Sam episode of the podcast. Sam, shout out to you. Bought some of the merch off of the uh off of our fourth wall site. Bought a couple of things on Halloween nonetheless. So, shout out to Sam. And I am here with Joe. Joe, how we doing? Good. I’m I I just want things to start happening. I I don’t know how in the past when the Mariners season ended probably a month ago at this point a little bit over that how we managed our time. It doesn’t feel think about last year. That’s what I’m saying. Nothing happened. I know. And I’m I’m already feeling like I want moves to happen. I’m already feeling the impatience meter start to boil over a little bit, which is a bad sign. a bad sign for what’s to come because we got three months until pitchers and catchers essentially. I mean, yeah, we’ve got the WBC in between, but these GM meetings need to cook something up nice. We need to see some moves. We need to It doesn’t even have to be Mariner stuff, truth be told. I just want something. I want to I just want to feel something, guys. Okay. But I don’t know how like the the the thing is with the offseason is there’s always going to be slowmoving parts and people waiting on certain top level guys to fall or not fall but like sign to set the market for other like avenues for players like Kyle Tucker setting the outfielder market and Framer Valdez setting or still in cease setting the the starting pitcher market. So, we’re all just kind of waiting, kind of sitting on our hands, kind of I mean, I don’t want to say I’m patiently waiting cuz everything that I’ve said to you is rooted in impatience, but how are you feeling about the off seasonason so far? You are you feeling the same amount of like anxiety or just like like the desire for moves? H I mean, I don’t know. I think this is a fine time in my opinion just like kind of chillax a little bit after the baseball season. You know, we’ve had some rumors which have been interesting that we’re going to talk about at a little bit later on in the show. Um, and of course, none bigger than the Mariners’s desire to go out there and resign Josh Naylor, which is apparently still something they’re talking about even at the GM meetings right now. Divish just released an article right before we started recording this talking about that. It really didn’t say anything we didn’t already know. But yeah, Jo Josh Naylor and Jorge Palano are two guys listed on the MLB top 50 free agents on over on MLB Trade Rumors. And both guys are linked to the Mariners pretty heavily. I think there’s only one person who didn’t have Naylor going back to the Mariners in that in that uh article. And I think two people had Polo coming back to the Mariners as well. Again, that’s really nothing new. I don’t think there’s a whole lot to talk about with those two simply because we’ve talked about that a lot. Yeah, it’s kind of redundant. Five years 90 for Naylor. Three out of the four writers of the trade rumors article predicting that. Polo three years 42 million. Two out of the four writers predicting that as well. So the expectations for the Mariners in the free agent market are well documented at this point. And there’s I don’t think there’s going to be many surprises this off season if that makes sense out of like the usual suspects of where you expect them to operate or where they’ve made it very clear where they want to like the kind of spots they want to be playing in in corner infield and then maybe some bullpen help. One of the other players at the corner infield spot on the top 50 free agents over on the trade rumors predictions. Ryan O’Harn potential, you know, trade deadline acquisition for the Mariners. One that we talked about a lot during the regular season ended up going to the Padres’s. One writer Anthony has Ryan O’Harn signing with the Mariners two years 26 million and naturally he is the the lone writer that did not have Josh Naylor. So it’s like again if you don’t sign Naylor I don’t think O’Harn is a bad fallback by any means and I think he is a lesser fit not fit but like a lesser player at that position and one that I would be less excited about having compared to Josh Naylor but again I think we’re very much so still in the honeymoon phase of the summer fling if you will the summer catch or whatever it was noted on Twitter. I can’t remember what Ben was calling it over on I don’t remember. doesn’t matter. So, I think it was Summer Fling, but yeah, Brian O’Harn would be a fine fit as well. But there’s one other free agent that the Raiders Was it just one? That’s fine. I didn’t want to talk about Ryan O’Harn. What do you What do you want to talk about Ryan O’Harn for? Ryan O’Harn is coming off of three pretty solid seasons. You can put him in the out in the corner outfield if you need to, but in 2023, he put up a 122 OPS plus. In 2024, a 119 and last year a 125. Now, that is following four years of mediocrity for Ryan O’Harn. He was not good with the Royals until the end of his tenure. But overall, pretty good season last year. He hit 281, 366, 437. Good for an 803 OPS. He hit 17 home runs between the Orioles and the Padres. So, yeah, it’s fine. It’s nothing special. I mean, his time with the Orioles, he put up a 5.2 war. Josh Naylor was on pace for that this year with the Mariners. So you meant like his entire time with Dors. I thought you meant just in 2025. I was like what? Yeah. So a 5.2 war over those three seasons. So yeah, like Ryan O’Ro is fine as like a fallback plan for Josh Naylor, but you have to make sure you go out there and add pretty extensively on the offensive side of things if that is the plan to go with Ryan O’Harn. You mentioned one other guy on this top 50 list. Honestly, a pretty boring top 50 list if you’re a Mariners fan. Yeah, Luke Weaver. A reunion with Luke Weaver. Apparently, it’s in the cards according to Anthony. Now, everybody has Weaver going somewhere different. All right, we have the Diamondbacks, the Mariners, the Orioles, and the Cubs on a 2-year, $18 million deal. Obviously, Luke Weaver was fantastic in 2024. He served up for a lot of the time as the closer for the Yankees with a 289 erra while he struck out 31% of his opponents. This year in 2025 kind of faltered a little bit. Obviously, we saw, you know, Devin Williams go to New York and a bunch of other relievers at the trade deadline. Weaver kind of got lost in the mix there, but yeah, he’s had a really good, I guess, career resurgence since he was a starter. And I could see it. I don’t know if the Mariners would be comfortable with that price point, though. Yeah, the the the market for relievers is always seems it seems like the Mariners are priced out of it, but again, the way that they operated at the deadline and maybe I’m reading too much into it, but this could be the time that they maybe dabble slightly in the high-end reliever market. It’s not the big ones like it’s not like the Josh haters of years past. I don’t think they’re going to be after Edwin Diaz, although that would be a fun reunion as well. But getting a another leverage arm that Luke Weaver could be. I think he slots in. I mean, he probably is your fourth best depending. I mean, it would probably go Munoz, Brash, Spire, Weaver just based on I guess like overall total leverage usage, but you could argue that Bazardo could be ahead of him as far as the pecking order is concerned. But if you’re paying a guy what they are $9 million for a season, he’s probably going to want to be in the I guess higher the the upper echelon of that bullpen. But seeing the Mariners be linked to a reliever in the top 50 is interesting. It’s not Brent Sudter, so I’m not really interested personally, but not Seth Alverson trade. Exactly. Yeah. Not Seth Alverson trade, not Brent Sudter signing. So again, take it with a grain of salt. the the reliever markets are always pretty hard to predict outside I think of like the top guys when there’s a super big fit or like a super big need for one of the top contenders like unless teams are very much so like hey we need a big leverage arm and there’s one in the market they’re usually just kind of a grabag I feel like at least as far as the offseason’s concerned yeah I mean like you look at Edwin Diaz he’s going to the Dodgers right we all we all agree He’s probably going to the Dodgers. Like, they’re going to spend $20 million a year for Edund Diaz. I don’t know what I would put the odds of that happening. But first, a word from our sponsor, FanDuel. 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If you have roughly 30-ish million dollars, how do you fit that in with Josh Naylor and potentially Jorge Palanco, etc. Things get a little iffy there at that point. Is it then, you know, Randy Rosena, but we’ll talk about that with the next article. It’s just an interesting scenario because there are a bunch of free agent starting pitchers the Mariners could go after. Divish notes Dylan CE, Ranger Suarez, Framber Valdez as the top three. He notes guys like Shota Imanaga, Michael King, Zack Gallon, etc. as other guys. Some of these guys you could definitely get for like a year deal as a number five starter. And honestly, I’d be fine with that. I’d be fine if they went out and got one of these guys. It also be fine if you just let Logan Evans run it up, run it out until it’s, you know, Sanger or Kate Anderson time. But when when you have Luis Castillo making $24 million, it definitely puts And don’t get me wrong, I think he’s worth that. I do. And I know a lot of people don’t, but I think he’s pitched like it. Yeah. And I think that that’s a fine deal for Luis Castillo, but if you do want to make some of the moves you need to make this year or this offseason, I think it makes more sense to trade Luis, which sucks. I love Luis Castillo. He’s one of my favorite mayors of all time, but it just it’s a business and unfortunate that’s probably what has to happen. The way that the pitching market has always seemed to it keeps ramping up it feels like every offseason. I think that’s just naturally, you know, the way a growing sport works as far as money in, money out is concerned. But looking at Luis’s contract, it doesn’t seem like it’s it’s a good deal. I mean, Luis Severino got 20 million with the and it’s like how much like you’re paying Luis Castillo similar money to Luis Severino and it’s like Sabrino has had good moments but he’s not the same pitcher as Luis Castillo and I know that’s the comparison that we always use but as Jason Seagull said in Bad Teacher it’s the only argument I need Sean it’s about Michael Jordan LeBron James doesn’t matter. Um, so yeah, I I get the the maybe again like it’s something you said about the trade rumors top 50. It’s kind of boring the way that a lot of the positioning and talks have been kind of ironing themselves out the first, you know, two weeks of free agency or just the offseason in general. It might be a kind of pedestrian off season, but it still has the chances to be a very good one. And when I say pedestrian, it’s just kind of like run-of-the-mill. Whereas, okay, they’ve made their their sight set on Naylor very clear. That’s awesome. That’s a step in the right direction from previous off seasonasons. It just feels like maybe the right time to step on the gas a little bit more and go for it even more so than that where if you trade Castillo, what does that mean as far as money being freed up? I think you can move the needle further if you trade Castillo and free up that money and you get better in that trade in 2025 or in 2026. It’s just hard when you’re trading from your existing MLB roster to guarantee that you’re getting better. So, I get why some people maybe wouldn’t want to or like the Mariners themselves are planning on holding on to him. But, I don’t know. I I I’m curious to see when we kind of flesh out our offseason plans like if we still because I don’t know if I’m going to trade Luis Castillo in mine just in the sense of like how realistic do I want mine to be? And that’s, you know, that’s not necessarily the the idea behind us creating our own offseason plans. But I don’t know. I the the way that they’ve been like postulating, it just feels like we know the moves that they’re going to make. They’re not trying to hide anything. They’re not trying to smoke and mirror misdirection and then they go sign Kyle Tucker. like they’re I know that’s the biggest one that they could do. I know I just Ly’s ears perked up, but the way that they’ve talked about holding on to the rotation like the free agency preview that Dvish outlined as well before that article was about will the team pursue outfield additions and it’s like not really. They’re pretty okay with the outfield group that they’ve got going into 2026. And I think it makes sense, but to guarantee your right field spot as rosace can zone of some combination, you know, however many games they play each with Kzone taking some DH days and maybe playing some first base. Like there’s a lot of moving parts with the right side of the field. It feels like with right field, second base, and then first base because two of those spots are pretty vacant right now. and right field. One of those guys could be playing first base some of the time if they don’t necessarily land their big fish in Josh Naylor. But obviously Ry’s locked up in left field, Julio’s in center, unless they trade Randy. But like again, they they they’ve not indicated any sort of direction of trading Randy or Rose, I don’t think. And what do at the end of 2024 is like you’re looking at her outfield going into 2025. It feels like that’s where we’re where we find ourselves going into 2026. I mean, Kanzone had a good year. I mean, he had a great year. I won’t even say good. He had a great year. He hit 380 games. Will he be able to replicate that? Like, are we looking at another Victor Robé situation where like, are we just going to watch the regression tank hit you hard? Who knows? It’s going to be kind of like a makeorb breakak season, I think, for both of them where they’re going to be splitting time in right field. And if one, you know, Dan Wilson seems like a guy that maybe wants to ride the hot hand. I don’t know if how many abs we’ll see against lefties for Dom, but he didn’t look I mean it’s hard with Dom. Sometimes he just looks completely overmatched by me on the mount. The worst at bats you’ve ever seen. The worst at bats you’ve ever seen, but then he’ll make contact on a pitch that you didn’t know was possible. And that’s kind of I think the boom bust nature of honestly both guys that are going to be platooning mainly right field is like we saw Victor reach his high in 2024. What does that look like? Can he rep can he replicate it? If he can that’s awesome. Dom can zone hit that peak in 2025. Can he stay there or is he going to slide down the mountain again? I think a lot of people would view it wise to upgrade in the corner outfield with I mean not like the not the most illustrious outfield free agent group but I think a decent one and Divish outlines like the top tier being Kyle Tucker duh Cody Bellinger a guy that we’ve talked about for three years running at this point. Yeah, those guys would both be very big upgrades over a platoon of roadlacing can zone more than likely. And then there’s the best of the rest as Dvish outlines with Trent Gisham who had a career year. Harrison Bader who I don’t know what to make of Harrison Bader at this point. Like the fact that he’s listed as the fourth best outfielder in this free agent class is kind of crazy to me when like in years past he was a kind of like throwin defensive fourth outfielder type. I don’t I don’t know what to make of where the off season will loom for outfielders, but I don’t know. Are you comfortable with the group going into 2025, 2026 if they just kind of run it back with the outfield core? I I fully expect that this is the outfield next year. And Dish’s or I’m sorry, Dotto’s quote at the end of the year was the outfield situation. We like where we’re at. We like our depth there. We like our quality there. Yeah, there’s a lot of depth. There’s five guys that can play the outfield for you. You have two guys locked in with Randy and Julio, three guys in right field. One of them will probably perform at least league average, right? Which is fine as like a number eight hitter or something like that. And then you re-evaluate like the Mariners always do when you get to the trade deadline. And if let’s say Roce is still not playing well, Dom is was a one-hit wonder, you know, Luke is injured again, like then then you go out there and you figure something out at the deadline. And I I believe the Mariners, that’s where they make their money, the deadline. They’re good at that. And so I feel like they could go out there and add to that position if they need to. However, I do think there’s a situation where the Mariners could trade for a guy that maybe can play a little bit outfield, can play second base for you, short stop in a pinch, and that is Catel Marte. I know, I know. Catel Marte, the guy who I bought a jersey after his first like month in the big or a jersey, his first month in the big leagues and then uh the Mariners traded him in the Gene Seagura and Mitch Haner trade with Taiwan Walker. So yeah, um I would love to have Catel Marte back. Nobody could have seen what was coming for Catel, but Bob Night andale, boob night andale if you will, mentioned a lot of different hot stove rumors and whatnot, in including 10 things that he think will happen this off seasonason. One of which being the Diamondbacks trade all-star second baseman Catel Marte. Now Catel his contract is fine. Yeah. Right. I mean he’s making 16 million in 2026, 12 million in 2027, 20 million in 2028. 22 million in 29 and 30 and then he has a player option for 11 a.5 million. More than likely he will decline that if he continues at the peak that he’s on but what I mean he’s going to be 37 at that point. I mean yeah he he has had a great career. Injuries have kind of slowed him down slightly at like his best moments. Not to say that he wouldn’t accept $11.5 million. Like it depends on the kind like it depends on how his body holds up I think for those big payday years cuz his contract is is backloaded for the most part like you mentioned 20 and then 22 and 22 again for his age 34 35 and 36 season. I just when when the age starts getting up there and then the the injuries kind of start to tack on and add up year in and year out, maybe that 11 and a half might actually be looking okay for him. But again, I could be wrong. That’s not me like hoping that he has a downward trajectory in any way, but I’m looking at his age, 37, and like an 11.5 million contract. Like, you’re probably right. He is a better player than that. Like, Justin Turner was signing one year, $12 million contracts at age like 39. So, you’re probably right. It’s an interesting situation with Catel because he’s a guy who nobody thought the power was going to be there for him. He’s making uh $16 million in 2026. That’s definitely a number that is more than palatable for a team like the Mariners. You look at like his peripheral numbers. He has a career 15.9% strikeout rate, which is solid. He’s a switch hitter. He walks above league average at 9.2%. And you know, he’s a guy that can play a lot of different positions for you. He has put up a W wrc plus or an OPS plus over 100 for years now. like you didn’t necessarily know if that was going to be the case when he was in Seattle the first time. He kind of looked like a fringe guy, like a Chris Taylor, like a Dustin Aley. Yeah, that’s just what he looked like in his time in Seattle. His second year, he had a 68 OPS plus he had 259, 287, 323. Now, albeit this is all the way back in 2016, but then he gets traded to Arizona and since 2018, he has put up a 100 uh OPS plus or higher every year other than 2020, which doesn’t really count, but and you look at like his war, he had a 6.9 war season. Nice. 6.8 in 2024, 4.9. Like, it’s just Catel Marte. And you mentioned the injuries. There’s only been one season really where he’s been missed ample time. Yeah. And that was 2021 where he only played 90 games. Otherwise, he’s played 120ish games, 125 games almost every single year since uh 2020. So, I think that yeah, the injuries, they’ve been like little nickel and dime injuries, nothing major, which is good. Um but yeah, I mean, if you could trade for Catel, that would be that would solve a lot of problems. That obviously means you’re probably not bringing back Jorge Palano. They just don’t really make sense on the roster together, so so be it. But yeah, I I want Catel back pretty bad. I think they’re they’re like you said, they’re very redundant players and I think and this is no discredit to Jorge Palano, but if you get Catel like Jorge Palano is Catel Marte light if if you will like Catel Marte is the better version. He’s the upgrade in in most scenarios. You mentioned position versatility. He’s pretty much just been a second baseman for the last two seasons primarily, but he does have the the versatility in the past. It’s just it hasn’t quite been there as much. And that’s probably maybe out of just necessity for the team that he’s playing on. Could he go do it in a pinch for you? Sure. I don’t see why not. It’s like the same idea of like Naylor could probably go play right field if you really needed him to, but you more so are just getting him to lock up second base and then he’ll DH 30 40 times the rest of the year. And you mentioned he’s a switch hitter. Career splits against right-handed pitching, a 785 OPS, career against left-handed pitching, a 902 OPS. So you’re going to take a 780 OPS against right-handers every day of the week, twice on Sundays. and you’ll especially take a 902 OPS against left-handed pitching. So, it’s a it’s a player that fits the mold very very well and would plug right into the middle of the Mariners lineup if the Mariners were able to get the job done. The hard part is and it’s similar to a lot of the conversations about, oh, we should trade for Jose Ramirez. is such a team-friendly contract of a player of such good caliber. Like this is a year in yearout all-star pretty much when he is on and I mean he was an MVP3 last season. He’s the silver slugger. This year like it’s not going to be cheap to trade for Catel Marte in the same way it would not be cheap to trade for Joseé Ramirez. I think trading for Jose Ramire is a little bit more expensive but Catel it would cost you quite a bit because you have him for the next what is it five years is it six years uh he has an option in 23 31 so you have him guaranteed for five more years at a relatively efficient cost for the type of player that you cheaper than Luis Castillo yeah like you’re going to have to give up a lot I’d say to get Catel Marte I don’t even know if I have an idea of like what mock trades would look like, but I mean, you’re looking at a couple top 100s, but probably ones that are closer to MLB ready. They probably want MLB ready talent because the Diamondbacks have good pieces that they could compete again next year. This could be a way to kind of reload and retool if they do move off of Catel Marte. you’re probably looking at a Bryce Miller potentially that could go in this trade like one of the starting pitchers or if it’s not Bryce Miller, maybe it’s a Logan Evans where you don’t want to trade from your rotation, but if you go with Logan Evans, you have to shore up it a little bit higher on the prospect capital and that’s looking probably like maybe a Laz Montes or you could go Cole Young to give them their second baseman in the future or however you want to have that work out. It’s not going to be a cheap trade by any stretch of the matter and I don’t even have I think a good mock for it because frankly we haven’t seen the Mars really operate in this way before. It’s the same idea with schoolable like we haven’t really seen them do it as far as trading in the off season at least for a while. Trading at the deadline like you mentioned they’re good at it. They’ve done that well year in and year out. Let’s see what they can make out of it in the offseason. I mean, what was the last big offseason trade? Is it T Oscar Hernandez? Like as far as like like a player of that caliber? Yeah. I mean, Polo was a one for four swap. Yeah, that’s a good point. But like the players at the top of that trade weren’t necessarily like I mean you traded Sure Gabby Gonzalez, your number three at the time, but he was probably falling to number seven or number eight. You traded Darren Bowen or Bowen. No, it was not those numbers. who was a fringe top 30 guy. He traded Dcliffani and Justin Topa. Like think about the Yeah, I mean that’s a great comp. Think about the Palano trade and then maybe times it by one and a half or two as far as quality is concerned. You’re not giving up eight players for Catel, but you’re giving up the quality of what like the quality of the Palanco trade. You’re basically doubling it as far as what’s going back to Arizona, I would assume. Maybe even triple. I don’t know. I was say the hard the hardest part with that trade is the the contract length. I mean, you’d have Catel for five or six more seasons, whereas Polo you had for one, right? And obviously the Mariners resigned him, what have you. But I don’t know a good comp like you mentioned. I was trying to look at the Francisco Lindor trade and see if it’s like a little bit lower than that, but I don’t know. I don’t remember how much time he had left on his contract. I think he had a year or two left. Whereas again, it’s just hard because Catel is so under contract for so long. That’s what made like the scuba one’s easy burns. It’s one year. It’s easy to find one-year deals. It is extremely difficult to find a second baseman of this caliber getting traded with this many years of control left. It’s hard when he and the money that he’s getting paid. I truly don’t know what a comp would be. But I think that starting with Bryce Miller makes a lot of sense. And if you’re starting with Bryce Miller and then you give up two top 100s on top of that and then, you know, maybe a a kind of lottery ticket low A guy, I think that maybe it could get it done for Catel, assuming you’re taking on that whole contract. But you mentioned that you’re going to want to make sure if you’re the Diamondbacks, you’re getting guys that are big league ready back in that deal because you can you definitely can go out there and be a team that competes next year. You’re probably not going to win that division. That’s the Dodgers division for from now on, for the rest of our lives. But with, you know, they lost Zack Gallon, they lost Mel Kelly. Could they bring some of those guys back? They of course lost Gino, lost Naylor. Like, they had a lot of pieces leave this season. So, the Diamondbacks definitely have to rebuild a little bit, retool, if you will, but I don’t think that they’re going to necessarily I I think they’ll compete for a wild card. Yeah. And if you’re competing for a wild card, you probably want to have young controllable pieces coming back to you like Bryce Miller, like potentially like a Michael Aoyo who can come up for you in a year or two’s time. Maybe maybe you’re interested in somebody like Dangelo Sa. I don’t like I don’t know if I’d want to go that high giving both Bryce and Darangelo, but just kind of the idea of what it’s going to take to get somebody like Catel Marte on your team. It’s not an easy trade to to figure out by any means. It’s not it’s not one that we can just whip up all of a sudden, but it’s a trade that I do find very interesting. Would you compare this to like the Rafy Devers trade? Yeah, you could. That’s that’s a good I mean a little bit lower, but yeah, DeS is the hard part is Devers’s contract is so much more rich where it’s through 2033. It’s double the money. So, it’s two it’s three extra years for double the money. A little bit over double the money. Catel is going to get paid, if I did my math correctly, 102 million from 2026 to 2030. I think that’s right. And Devers is getting paid 250 until 2033. And they gave up Kyle Harrison, major league ready arm. So like that’s your Bryce Miller, but Bryce Miller’s I think better than Kyle Harrison. They gave up Jordan Hicks, who kind of booty cheeks. I’m being honest with you. And then James Tibs, who was a top prospect admittedly. Um, and then Boston or someone. Yeah. Then Boston Flipper for Dustin May, which is kind of wild. And then Jose Beao, who I have no idea who that is. Rookie right-hander. Like it doesn’t seem like a notable name. Like how much more expensive would the Catel trade be because of how much less money it is? Like that’s that’s the big moving piece here where you could look at this and say like would you give up say Logan Evans and freaking who was a Jordan Hicks comp for the Mars they don’t really have one but like they don’t really have one just some reliever we’ll we’ll say we can lose the Gino trade again we’ll trade Carlos Vargas so Logan Evans Carlos Vargas like James Tibs is not as good picks a starter when he was traded. Yeah but like they didn’t use him like that. Yeah, he he had already kind of started his conversion back to the bullpen. Um, James Tibs, the Mariners don’t really have a comp for him, but like maybe Michael Aoyo and then someone higher than Jose Beo. Maybe it’s I don’t know, like some random top 30 arm that’s in single A. Like, does that get it done? It doesn’t feel like it would, which is hard to say because like we see this happen in the middle of the season for the Giants and the Red Sox, but it’s because the Giants are paying $250 million over the next eight years. And the Red Sox really wanted to get rid of Rafie Devers because he had become such a problem. Like that’s something like they we heard that had become a problem. He was traded like two days later like and they were like no get him out. Like whereas with now Bob Nightingale does say that the Diamondbacks are motivated to trade Catel Marte, whatever that means, but like the uh the Red Sox were dead set on trading Raphael Devers. I I mean you they could hold on to Catel until the trade deadline like and they’d probably be fine with that, right? So it’s it’s a situation where I feel like they’d have to be blown away to trade Catel in that deal. Um, and while the Marin the Mariners have the the prospect capital to go out there and blow anybody away, unless your name is like Aaron Judge, right? You’re not going to go trade any of your guys for Aaron. It’s not going to happen. Like the untouchables. Whoa, now wait a minute. But like they have the opportunity and the the capital to do that. It’s just whether or not they’re willing to compromise, you know, 2035 for like Catel Marte. I mean, who knows, right? But yeah, I think that Cel Marte is a guy that makes a lot of sense. Also, just worth noting here while we’re talking about this article, uh, Boob doesn’t think that TK Scooble or Paul Ske gets traded this offseason, he said it’s not happening. So, any of you guys that were looking at TKO and saying that’s a Mariner next year, probably not. Probably not. But, I mean, again, this is this is Boob Night and Gale, so who who really knows what to take from that? Let us know in the comments down below if you would like to see Catel Marte come back. Thank you guys so much for watching episode 248 of the Hit It Here podcast presented by FanDuel and go Mariners.

The Seattle Mariners offseason rumor mill has begun to churn and what is being spat out is nothing new so far. Josh Naylor and Jorge Polanco are both free agents the Mariners are expected to pursue to try and retain for the forseeable future. The pitching rotation likely won’t see any drastic changes and the outfield core will remain the same for 2026 as well. So what about this Ketel Marte guy though?

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