5 Players the Seattle Mariners NEED to Trade For This Winter | Top 5 Tuesday

5 Players the Seattle Mariners NEED to Trade For This Winter | Top 5 Tuesday

These are the five players the Mariners need to target via trade this winter. Colby, hit it. You are Locked On Mariners, your daily Seattle Mariners podcast, part of the Locked On podcast network. Your team every day. Ohoy sailors. It is Tuesday, December 2nd, 2025. You’re listening to the Lockdown Mars podcast. Part of the Lockdown Podcast Network. now the number one sports podcast network. My name is Todd Gonzalez and I’m joined as always by my co-host Colobby Patnode. We’re two lifelong Maris fans who’ve been covering the team for over half a decade. And on today’s show, it’s Top Five Tuesday. Kobe’s going to give you his top five trade targets for the Mariners and I’ll list my five favorite bullpin entrances in baseball. Before we get into all that, I want to shout out our title sponsor today, FanDuel. If you want to be right in the middle of the action this season, visit fanuel.com and place your NFL live bets all season long. Some minor Mariners news here this morning. Mariners have officially been awarded the second highest competitive balance round B pick in next year’s draft. That is a tradeable pick and it’s one that we assumed the Mariners were going to be awarded uh when we did our offseason plan and we included it in the Brennan Donovan trade that uh was in our offseason plan. So perhaps the Mariners will use that pick to trade for one of the guys that Kobe’s going to talk about today. So floor is yours, my friend. Oh, you friend. It’s the holiday season, buddy. No, buddy. Stop. But uh yeah, so kind of the problem with a top five trade target list is that we’ve basically spent the last, you know, three or four Thursday or Tuesdays going over like teams the Mariners should try and trade with and like Palanco fallbacks and all that. those all kind of run into the same general area, which is, hey, these are players I think the Mariners would like and and they should go out and try to get and therefore there’s a lot of crossover between these uh names and the names that we’ve already talked about. So, uh I did try to throw one or two curve balls into the top five just to give us some new players to talk about or at least players we haven’t spent a lot of time talking about. Um but yeah, they’re they’re listed one through five. I I really think, you know, doesn’t really matter the order all that much, but I did have some honorable mentions uh that, you know, we’ve either talked quite a bit about or whatever. Uh so Brandon Laauo obviously uh is Whoa. Brandon Laauo. Yeah. Never heard that name before. I know. I know. Uh Jake Croninworth uh is Jake Croninworth. Never thought about him for the Mariners. Uhhuh. Alec Bow still makes sense. Uh he’s more of a leftover from last year, but he still does make sense. Um Garrett Clevenger we’ve talked about as both a high leverage bullpin arm that the Mariners want and a lefty, which the Mariners also want. Uh Freddy Peralta, again, kind of only works if they trade Luis Castillo, but whatever. I throw him on the list uh just because. Jojo Romero is another guy that we talked about a little bit here. CJ Abrams uh is another guy that we’ve talked about some, not a ton, but uh yeah, like and we did when we did our, you know, divisional preview for trade targets, we talked about all these players to some degree. So yeah, I mean again, it’s not a very unique topic just because of what we’ve already covered. So we’ll we’ll still be talking about players that we talked a lot about, but whatever. We’ll we’ll just keep on plugging away because it is the off season and we need content. So, uh coming in at number five on our list or on my list, uh I have Edwin Yeda relief pitcher for the Rays. You get him for four years. He is super two. He is ARB eligible this year, but he’s only scheduled to make about a million, 1.1 million, something like that uh this year. He is a righty who throws hard, gets a ton of swing and miss. Walk rates are totally fine for a reliever. Uh he had a little bit of a trouble with little bit trouble with home runs uh last year, although pitching in, you know, a high a ballpark. Not that surprising. Uh so you can kind of have to give him a little bit of a pass on that one. Uh but the reason I like you so much is that a you get him for four years, but b it’s the change up that is his, you know, ultimate weapon and that is different. We talked a little bit about this from a bullprint perspective how similar all the Mariners relievers are. It’s sinker slider for pretty much all of them. That’s the bread and butter and you know it works. I’m not saying that you know that it didn’t work and so they need to go away from it. It just you can add some variety uh to to the looks. They’re all from a similar arm slot. They all throw 97 to 100 with two seamers and they all have good sliders. So, let’s mix in a guy who’s more, you know, four seam change up or two seam change up even uh and let’s give, you know, a different look uh to Bazardo and Brash and Munoz. Uh and USA could do that and he also misses batch which is something this bullpen needs to do more of. Uh so I think you is a really good fit here in Seattle. I think I think the Rays would trade him. uh four years of club control is not something the Rays typically like to move, but it’s also a bullpin arm and the Rays are more than willing to move bullpin arms, particularly if they can get somebody they think could be an everyday player. I also think USA is the type of guy where a you know trading your comp round B pick uh could be very appealing uh to a team like the Rays in particular. And we also know that the Rays uh the Rays and the Mariners have a really good relationship. They know each other well. Uh, so I do think that this is a good target who would absolutely help the bullpen. I think he’s available. I think he’s reasonably cheap in terms of, you know, salary for what he’s actually produced value. Uh, so I think makes a good deal of sense for Seattle. Now my question for you though is do you consider when you say a daddy? I think he’s more of a dude uh right now. I think there is ceiling uh to move up to the next rung, but I would say he’s better than Bazardo right now. Probably not quite as good as Brash. And obviously Munoz is is the big daddy uh in in the Mariners bullpin right now. Uh but yeah, I I do think that he would definitely help and and obviously again, you know, it’s not just so much that you have to add a guy because you’re one short. you kind of have to add a guy because one of these four guys who you rode into the ground last year probably going to get hurt or probably not going to be as effective as a result of their usage. Uh which is something Justin Hollander has already alluded to a couple times this winter. So, uh it really is why I think the Mariners need two guys in their bullpen. Uh and Hollander has kind of alluded to such that they would really like to add two arms, one of the high leverage variety. Uh and they’d also like one of those two arms to be a lefty. And of course, those could both be the same guy as like Garrick Clevenger as that example. So, but I still think even if they add the even if the high leverage guy they add is a lefty, I still think they’re going to want to go out and get a YA-ish uh level uh reliever to go along with it. So, maybe you get Clevenger and Yaya in the same deal. I don’t know. Stranger things have happened. So, uh yeah, I think you know I think you say it is a pretty good kit. So, that wasn’t where I expected you to start. So, uh, who’s coming in at number four? Ah, yes. A newer member of the, uh, Obsession Club or whatever we’re calling them. Brought us brought up to us by a patron about last week and the more I’ve dug into it, the more I really like the call. Uh, Edmundo Sosa. Yeah. Of the Phillies. Yes. Uh, now Alec Bow is the everyday third baseman. Sosa is more of a part-time player, but he checks a lot of boxes that the Mariners could really use. First things first, he is a plus defender at third base and second base. And he played shorts stop last year as well. And he even played a little bit of outfield. The Mariners do not have the utility man on their team right now. Right now, that that job would probably go to Leo Rivos, which fine, I guess. But Sosa’s got one year of club control left. He’s going to make about $3.5 million. He fills a potential hole all across the infield. If Cole Young comes up and he’s not very good, Sosa can handle that that job until July where you can go out and check. Same goes for third base. Uh we’ve talked about this role. If you’re going to give the young guys opportunities, you have to have a veteran who you feel confident in coming in and handling those handling those spots if the rookies fail. So Sosa is that guy. And oh, by the way, Sosa destroys left-handed pitching. absolutely destroys it. He’s got some pop. 440 slug. Uh the only thing he doesn’t really do is he doesn’t walk. Like 3% walk rate last year. So, uh again, he’s not a perfect player. That’s why he’s not an everyday player. But for a team that desperately needs that safety blanket at second base, at third base in particular, uh for a team that really needs some thump off the bench, particularly against left-handed pitching, for a team that needs athleticism and defense added to their bench, Sosa just checks every single box. So, I really like the Sosa idea. Uh yeah, you know, I don’t know how available he’s going to be, but the Phillies have problems. They need outfield help. uh they need catching help. They have a lot of problems and they’re kind of in a weird spot as a franchise right now. They have a bunch of guys who are going to be free agents including Sosa. So there might be an opportunity here to either kind of pivot or you know uh this is where like a Luke or a Dominic Hanzone could come into play for the Phillies who do need a corner outfielder. And they’ve mentioned wanting one who hits left-handed. Uh so I I do think that there is a reasonable swap to be had there. And Sosa just checks all the boxes. Like I said, he’s he’s fast, he’s a good defender, he’s got power, crushes left-handed pitching, can play multiple spots, and he’s only going to make about three million bucks. He’s Dylan Moore, only better than Dylan Moore. I wonder if you could attach him to one of the left-handed relievers in a trade. You know, a Stro or an Alvarado or Banks, something like that, make a little bit of a bigger deal. But yeah, Sosa um leans right into what Jerry Dotto was talking about on 710 I think last week or just a few days ago when he was on I think with Stace um that you know the more you can do right and being able to play multiple positions and bringing guys in that don’t necessarily block you know Cole Young and Colt Emerson and Ben Williamson so they can still give those guys some runway while also protecting themselves. Sosa definitely does that. Yeah, Sosa’s arguably the best utility player in baseball. Uh so, and again, he just fits perfectly what the Mariners need from, you know, the guy who crushes lefties to the guy who can give you, you know, a a life vest at multiple positions where you plan on going with younger kids. Uh it just he checks every box. So, I think he’s a really good fit. So good, in fact, that he made them my top five. So yeah, Himundo Sosa and the Phillies in general. Keep an eye on the Phillies and the Mariners. They not natural trade partners and Dumbrossski’s cuckoo for Cocoa Puff sometimes, but yeah, uh he’s got some guys he kind of needs to move or wants to move. He doesn’t have a ton of uh money to go out and and spend. So the Mariners and some of their cheap talent uh probably going to be pretty appealing to uh to this ball club. All right, we will get into your top three trade targets for the Mars this winter in just a moment, but first a reminder. This episode of the Lockdown Mars podcast is brought to you by FanDuel. NFL Sundays move fast. 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Thank you so much for making us your first listen and also thank you for making Locked on the number one sports podcast network. It’s top five Tuesday. Colob’s going over his top five trade targets for the Mars this winter and we’re in the top three. So Colobby, who’s coming in at number three? Yeah, it’s time to go get back to the oldies but the goodies. Um I gave you guys two newish names. Uh, but some names are so obvious that they’re hard to ignore. Uh, context. No, not yet. Uh, but it is uh Brennan Donovan uh is coming in. So that means someone is not on this list. We’ll talk about that later. Okay, go go go. Brennan Donovan. Yes. Uh Brennan Donovan. Look, I’m tired of talking about the guy, too. Uh but he is a really good fit for the Mariners. He can play second, he can play third, he can play left. Uh he is a prototypical leadoff hitter, at least from an on base percentage standpoint. Uh which the Mariners could sorely use which pushes Randy down to the five or the six depending on if they get polo back or not. Uh you get him for two years. It’s a pretty good profile for T-Mobile Park. It’s not a guy who relies on power. Uh he’s not a guy who relies on gap to gap power either. uh and he’s incredibly consistent over the last four years and uh you know he’s relatively cheap in terms of his salary. So you know as as annoying as it is to talk about the guy over and over and over again and as delusional as you know some Cardinals insiders are about him being worth Brian Woo. Uh the fit is undeniable. It just is the cost going to line up? I don’t know because there’s a real bidding war here. Um, Donovan is not a guy that you, you know, go 200, you know, 200 cents on the dollar on just Yeah. You don’t pay, you don’t pay the freight the freight for. Yeah. No, like at the right price, Donovan is is a really good fit for Seattle. Again, it just feels or it just sounds like at least from, you know, reputable reports from like passing and and guys like that that there’s a lot of teams interested. Uh my hunch is is that the Cardinals might play themselves. Uh they might wait the market trying to get this ridiculous asking price and then they get to January 15th or or February 1st and they still have Rogers. They still have Donovan and uh they’re kind of standing there like, “Oh well, because it really doesn’t make sense for them to hold on to Donovan and and they can sit here and posture and be like, oh no, we don’t have to trade Donovan.” It’s like, yeah, you don’t. But you know that the minute he plays a game for you this year, his value gets cut like in half on the trade market. Yeah. So, you got to be careful about that. Uh again, I I think the offer that Ty and I made in our offseason plan is very aggressive for a player like Donovan and I think it’s a fair uh deal and it is probably the most I’m willing to pay for, you know, for a guy like Brennon Donovan because as good as he is, he’s a three- win player. Like, he’s a three-in player. He’s not an all-star. uh you know, he is solid, but he’s not spectacular. He has his warts. He doesn’t hit left-handed pitching all that well. Uh which are all things you’re willing to live with. It’s just not something you’re willing to live with if it cost you, you know, twice what you think he’s worth. He’s just not that guy. So, uh, Donovan, very good player, very good fit, but if the Cardinals are going to hold out for a King’s Ransom, he’s just not that he’s just not that interesting to me because I think I can go get a close proximity to Donovan and just keep my guys and then maybe use those assets to go get somebody else uh that, you know, plays a position I I might have more interest in filling or maybe just a flatout better player than Donovan, which does exist out there. Number two, a favorite of mine, uh, Yandi Diaz. Uh, there I know. Yes. I know that, uh, people don’t people really don’t think that him and Randy can coexist even though it’s only for a year because of some vague report that maybe they didn’t like each other three years ago or their wives didn’t like each other three years ago. It does seem like that is real. But it’s again like I said last week when when he was he was number one on my list on the fallback options list like just you’re professional baseball players figure it out like you’ve coexisted before. Mhm. For like two years after that incident they were still on the Rays together like you can make it work. And and also like again like I said last week like Randy is now like part of the core. It’s not the same situation as it was two years ago when we were first having this discussion when they when they first brought him in. Like Randy has, you know, Yeah. He’s like entrenched himself into the clubhouse. He’s he’s, you know, comfortable there. It’s not like he’s fighting for respect and there’s not going to be a faction. Yeah. Like Yandi’s coming into Ry’s territory. Right. Right. So, yeah. And Yandi Diaz is an incredible hitter. Absolutely incredible. maybe the most underrated player or underrated hitter I should say in baseball. Dude just ras and yeah, he’s pretty much a DH only right now, but that’s fine. You have that opening. He’s incredibly cheap in terms of what he should be making on the market and the Rays can posture all they want about like, oh, we don’t have to trade Lao. Oh, we don’t have to trade Diaz. But it’s like you do. You do because it’s you’re you’re at best the fourth best team in that division this year. Uh, and these guys, Yandi is 34 years old. I don’t care if he has two years of club control left. You have Aronda. You have Trey Morgan. You have these young players that you want to play first base and DH and and do all these things with. And Yandi standing in the way. You’re not going to be competitive again more than likely. Uh, during Yandi’s tenure, you’re going to trade him. Like, it’s ridiculous to suggest that you wouldn’t. Uh, and he’s going to cost something because he’s a really good hitter. But I’m fine paying that. what I think it’ll cost. I’m fine paying that because Diaz is a 135 140 W wrc plus bat. Uh who, you know, doesn’t hit for a ton of home runs, but has a ton of doubles, hits the ball very hard, does everything you kind of want him to do as as a T-Mobile Park, uh, you know, hitter. Uh, and he’s a right-handed hitter who provides some balance. He probably very likely would be the leadoff guy in this lineup, or he would at least be one of the guys they would consider there. Uh, and I only have to deal with him and Randy being together for a year. It’s a no-brainer for me. Yandi Diaz, arguably the the best hitter who could move uh this winter, except for, you know, maybe somebody else is coming up on the list. I mean, Yandi is who some people think Luis Arise is. Yes. Straight up. Super high average. Like his batting average has punch behind it where Luis Arise is just his batting average is his batting average. And there’s no like nobody’s afraid of Luis Arise coming to the plate. Nobody pitches around Luis Arise cuz he can’t hurt you. He really can’t. Yanni Diaz can hurt you. Yeah. So yeah, Diaz also Lucas has never gotten on base at a 400 club, right? Yandi has done that three times. Yeah. So again, uh Yandi probably should be your leadoff hitter, but at the very worst, he’s hitting two, three, four in this lineup. Uh and again, it’s full-time DH. He doesn’t block anybody. Uh even you could even coexist with Polo on this roster. If Polo plays some second base pretty regularly, maybe some first base, Yandi, you can rotate those guys through. So like trading for Yandi doesn’t even exclude you from going out and getting Jorge Palano back if you so choose. So, uh, yeah, Yandi to me is is highly underrated. Uh, and I think the one strike against him in the minds of many Mariner fans is highly overrated, which all coincides nicely to him being number two on my list. So, who’s number one? I think I take a guess. Yeah. Uh, number one is Adulus Garcia. Now, free agents who they have to trade for. Yeah. Uh but uh no number one is Juan Sodto or Francisco Lindor. Apparently they are not compatible so they should be traded and separated. My guess is Lindor is probably the guy traded but no. Uh number one is Catel Marte. Yeah, of course it is. Of course it is. It has to be like if there is the possibility that Catel Marte is being traded this winter and I think it’s going to happen. I just I think that’s where we’re trending. And I think that’s where most people are eventually getting to. I it just makes no sense for the for the Diamondbacks to let the slinger into him getting his 10 and five rights and then trading him makes it trading him becomes just infinitely more complicated for them and they’re going to trade him. Yeah. I just obviously you don’t let this much smoke escape your, you know, your facility if you’re not setting the fire, you know, like very clearly they want him out of here for whatever reason. uh whether it’s the money, whether it is maybe some I don’t know attitude issues, which again is weird for a team that literally gave him like three extensions in eight years. Um it’s a little weird, but uh yeah, whatever it is, he’s a guy. He’s the best hitter who’s going to move this winter. Uh he ages incredibly well. At least he appears to be. His profile ages incredibly well. He still hits the ball extremely hard. He still hits for power. Uh he gets on base at a good amount. He’s still a decent defender and he should have no problem playing second or third base for the next couple of years. You get him for five years, uh he’s not even making like real money uh relative to what he’s actually worth for another two years, he’s making 16 million this year and then next year it actually goes down to 12 like and then when even when it jumps up to the big money, it’s like $20 million a year. That’s nothing. That’s nothing. Not for a player of of Mart’s caliber. Uh he is just he’s the best hitter on the market. He plays he or he could play two positions that you desperately need filled. You get him for five years. I don’t care if he’s 32. I don’t care if he’s making $90 million over those five years. That’s a bargain. That is an absolute bargain. You’re willing to give Josh Naylor $90 million over five years. Catel Marte is significantly better than Josh Naylor. So, I I think it’s a no-brainer to me, especially if the Diamondbacks are willing to take prospects like they want a prospeer selling point. I’m not letting Ryan Sloan or or Michael Aoyo or Cole Young or Laz Montes or any combination of the three prevent me from getting the best offensive player that will be moved who happens to play my biggest position of need when I’m trying to win the freaking World Series this year. That’s not stopping me. The money’s not stopping me. Will it stop the Mariners? Probably if I had to guess, unfortunately. But it’s a no-brainer for me. It is an absolute no-brainer. Uh, Catel Marte should be the number one target. Jorge Palano should be the fall back to Catel Marte. All these guys on the list should be the fallback to Catel Marte. Uh, he’s number one with a bullet. It It’s It’s a no-brainer. It is an absolute no-brainer. for a guy I think is going to get traded, for a guy who I think the Mariners can work a mostly prospect heavy package out of, for a guy with club control, for a guy with production, for a guy who I believe will age very well, for a guy I believe will hit at T-Mobile Park, it’s all perfect for Marte. And if any of these things weren’t true, like if if the money wasn’t as big of a problem, if the years wasn’t as big of a problem, the Diamondbacks would not even be entertaining trading him. So it’s a no-brainer. Kel Marte is is the guy that you target this winter. Absolutely. 100%. So, no scoo. I mean, like I get it. I get why, but like I kind of felt like he would still be on air. It’s just I don’t think he’s I just don’t think the Mariners are that team. Yeah. Yeah. I I I just I look at should they be interested? Yes, of course. Is there a scenario where maybe they could get him? Sure. But it involves trading Luis Cass. You’ll notice there were no starting pitchers in my top five. Yeah. Uh so, you know, is there a scenario where they trade Luis maybe in the school deal and they they kind of work it that way? Sure. But when I think of school, I go, the Red Sox are better positioned to get him. The Mets are better positioned to get him. They’re better positioned to well sign him to an extension. The Mariners certainly could if they wanted to, but we know they won’t. So, yeah. Uh, so I just added up all those factors and it’s just like, look, Scubble love to have him. I just don’t think it’s realistic enough for us to spend that much time on unfortunately. Uh, but uh it would be awesome. It’d be awesome if they got him, that’s for sure. And maybe, just maybe, the uh the estimated price is is being overhyped a little bit, as it sometimes can be. Uh but uh you know I I just think you know if the Tigers really want young pitching I think it’s pretty much dead on arrival there from the Mariners perspective because they’re not giving up George Kirby. They’re not giving up Gilbert. They’re not giving up Woo or Miller. Uh and I don’t think that Kate Anderson or Dangelo Sanger or Ryan Sloan is the type of arm that the Tigers are looking for. I think the Tigers are looking for Nolan Mlan, you know, or or Jonah Tong. Like they’re looking for that type of guy. have that. Yeah, the Marriage just don’t have that guy yet. They might next year, but not this winter. And you’re listening to the Locked On Maris podcast, part of the Lockdown Podcast Network, your team every day. As always, if you want to hear from me and Colobby even more and help support the show, we have a Patreon. It’s called Control the Zone. And on there, we talk Mariners, Seahawks, all that good stuff. For more information, go to patreon.com/controlzone. link in the description of this episode. So, there you have it on Col’s top five trade targets for the Mars this winter. Now, it’s my turn here on top five Tuesday. I spun the Ed Helms yesterday on mailbag Monday and landed on top five bullpin entrances in Major League Baseball. So, there were a couple ways that I could have gone about this. I could have done strictly closer entrances. I could have done all time. I decided to go with just current uh bullpen entrances because like if I did all time that’d be pretty straightforward. It’d be kind of boring. You know, it’d be Mariano, it’d be Trevor Hoffman with Hell’s Bells. It would be, you know, Edwin Diaz, Yandon, which spoiler alert, those guys are going to be on this list. Um, but yeah, so I decided to go uh more modern and that was a little bit of a mistake cuz honestly I’m like aware of about five bullpin entrances in today’s game that actually stand out that are not just music, right? and either there aren’t a ton around the league or they’re just not well documented because I tried to do some research on this and I couldn’t really find many that I wasn’t aware of. So admittedly this is um probably not going to be, you know, the the definitive top five bullpen entrance list. Maybe it will be. I don’t know. Again, I really could only find so many of these things on the internet trying to do research. So, uh, maybe this is the five best bullpen entrances in baseball, but uh, yeah, I don’t have any honorable mentions because of that. So, we’re just going to get right into the, uh, top five. Starting with number five, got a couple mariners on here. The first one is Andreas Munoz. Uh, the big reason that it lands on this list, uh, is that the crowd gets into singing the song. It’s It’s super catchy. The whole crowd gets into it. It’s dope. I love that. Um, number four, another Mariner, Matt Brash, Fireman. Got Fireman by by Lil Wayne playing. They go way harder for Matt Brash’s entrance than they do for Mooney’s, frankly. Like, they got the the lights going around the stadium, the siren going off, they have a spotlight on on Matt as he walks to the mound or as he jogs to the mound. Like, it’s just it goes way harder than Mooney’s entrance, at least from the clips that I saw. And again, you know, I I haven’t been to T-Mobile Park since I was 12 years old, so these, you know, I have to experience these on clips that I’ve seen. Yeah. How about that? Yeah. No reason for Tai to come to Seattle apparently. But uh yeah, I don’t know. I guess that kind of fits though because like Munoz is so quiet that like Sure. I mean, I guess Brash is pretty quiet too though. So Brash is pretty quiet. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But can we come up with a new nickname for the bullpin by the way? You don’t like Baris? No. Like I get what they’re going for, but it’s just like the firemen. Like it’s kind of lame, honestly. It’s I I I like the nickname specifically for Matt Brash. He really is the fireman because like we’ve talked about this. If you need a strikeout, who are you going to? Mhm. Like if it’s bases loaded, one out, you need a strikeout. You are going to Matt Brash. Sure. Just, you know, also sometimes Brash carries a can of gasoline with him. So, firemen, fire starter. Oh, no. I accidentally put gasoline in the water tank. Yeah, it’s it’s He mostly gets it right. He mostly gets it right to be fair. But, uh I don’t know. I just I’m not wild about the nickname. Has there ever been a good nickname for an entire bullpen? Like I can’t think of like there’s no like monsters of the midway or or the purple people eaters or the steel leads in a boom. Yeah. There’s none of that for like a like nobody’s come up with that for a bullpen. And if you’re going to come up with it for a unit like it would probably be a bullpen unit in baseball. So I don’t know. Coming up next week on Top Five Tuesday, top five bullpen nicknames. Yes. the armb. Yeah. Uh yeah. No, there’s just like I I I looked this up. There’s like nicknames for, you know, specific pitchers obviously. Yeah. Like relievers or an entire bullpen. Yeah. I don’t know. Are we tripping? Let us know in the comments. Like, are we missing something here? Is there a legion of boom or a steel curtain? Did we just like completely like for an elite bull? Sometimes I’m like, “Oh yeah, I don’t remember that.” And then like I get off the show and I’m like, “Oh yeah, that thing.” Like what? Maybe. Maybe. So yeah, I don’t know. Maybe we’re being stupid right now. But yeah, let us know in the comments below. You love to let us know when we’re being stupid. Like in hockey, they have like names for the lines, the different line changes. So like, sure, it it’s not like unheard of in other sports to have like a specific nickname for a group of players, not just an individual player. Yeah. So, I don’t know. Maybe it’s just not a baseball thing for any group, but uh I mean, I guess like the million-dollar infield way back in the 1910s, the Philadelphia Athletics, like I guess that was a thing. The core four, I guess, for the Yankees kind of, but like that wasn’t for a unit, that was just for four individual players. So, yeah, whatever. Let us know. Anyways, number three. Yeah. So, coming in at number three, uh, is Yand Don, uh, whose entrance went super viral once he was traded to Philly because they made it even better than it was in Minnesota. Uh, pretty good in Minnesota. Yeah, it was pretty good in Minnesota, too. But they made it even better in Philly. They cut out the lights, they got the bells going. Um, and then the like the fire graphics and the spider like crawling around and all that. And the the crowd gets into the song. It’s It’s really cool. It’s It’s sick. And especially like the first time they played it and he comes out and he has a four pitch save. Like sick. That’s That’s super sick. And I’m I’m very salty that the Mariners didn’t get that trade across cuz they really thought there would have been three Mariners on this list today. They really thought they had it. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, coming in at number two is one that I’m not sure how many people are familiar with um because I couldn’t even really find much about it online, but it’s one that I’ve experienced in person multiple times uh over at the Rogers Center this year. It’s Jeff Hoffman’s uh bullpen entrance, which is crazy because Jeff Hoffen didn’t have a particularly good year, but he has a sick entrance and it combines like two of my favorite things, Marvel and Kid Cuddy. it plays. He has one of the best Cuddy songs ever, which is Alive from Man on the Moon One. And his whole thing is like Thanos, right? So, he’s on the big screen in the middle in center field. Uh looking like Thanos in the uh and on the video boards around the stadium, the the Infinity Stones like circle around. It’s super dope. And it’s super colorful and everyone turns their phone lights on. It’s It’s really cool to be in the middle of. It’s a dope intro. Yeah. Thanos, famous for winning every time. It’s like naming your defense the Red Sea. It got It got parted right down the middle. Yeah. No wonder they haven’t won anything. Uh coming in at number one, uh this is obvious. You know, it’s Evas. It’s Timmy Trumpet. Yeah. Do I need to say anything more? Like, is it Timmy? I thought it was Tommy. No, it’s Timmy. It’s Timmy Trumpet. I always thought it was Tommy Trumpet, too. But yeah, it’s iconic. Yeah. What is the song called? Narco. Yeah, I think so. Yeah, it is probably I would say argue the second most iconic uh closer entrance in history behind only Mariano. So, yeah. Yeah. Uh, and Mariano didn’t even pitch really in an era where they had like the special light show. It was just the aura and the vibe of him entering the game. Uh, that really uh sold that thing. So, like Yeah. Yeah. Speaking of like classic ones, I know people are going to be like, “Where’s Brian Hley’s?” Ryan Hley basically did uh or basically does um Trevor Hoffman’s. It’s Hell’s Bells. And I get it. Hellley Hell’s Bells. I I I understand like it fits him pretty well, but still like it’s basically Trevor Hoffman’s entrance, so I didn’t put it on there. Yeah. My my favorite my favorite closer entrance and again, it wasn’t even like in the era where they did big productions for it. JJ Puts used to come onto the field to Thunder Struck. Yeah. Uh by AC/DC. And that was awesome because like they like cut the lights when the thunder like the lightning hit or whatever and they’re like, “Oh, that’s cool.” And I just think now like, man, what if they had the LEDs and the and the 90 foot scoreboard and like all the stuff they can do that Fernando Rodney’s too. That that one’s always fun for me. Uh that way Fernando Rodney for the top 50 Mariners of all time. We’re going to be talking about that later this week because there’s no way the Mariners are giving us enough content not to talk about that this week. Yeah. No, maybe tomorrow even. Yeah, we might be filling out our top 50 Mariners ballot on the show here in the next day or two. So, look forward to that. But there you go. That’s uh that’s my top five bullpin entrances. Again, there weren’t many for me to personally choose from. Like an archive out there. Yeah. Like what is Mason Miller’s? How is Mason Miller not in the top five? Like if it was any good, we would see it. Like it I I saw his from San Diego and it’s not really much of anything, you know? Like I I searched up like some of the best relievers in baseball. I was just like, you know, uh Abner Urebe bullpin entrance. Like type that into YouTube. Nothing came up. Mason Miller bullpin entrance. Like a YouTube short came up and it sucked. So yeah, I don’t know. Maybe his is actually solid and the video I watched just sucks. But you can’t do bullpin ent interest ent interest ent interest ent interest ent interest ent interest ent interest ent interest ent interest ent interest entrance ent entrances at day games. They just don’t work in daylight. Yeah, that’s the other thing too. Unless you had a roof closed. Yeah, they work okay with the roof closed, but like no, it just it’s By the way, I would I would say that specifically about Jeff Hoffman. Like that does not work at all when the roof is open. But when the roof is closed, it’s great. It’s sick. There you go. So, it has to be a very specific setting as well. But, uh, but yeah, there you go. Top five bullpin entrances. All right, let’s get out of here. That’s going to do it for our show. Thank you so much for joining us here on the Lockdown Mars podcast, part of the Lockdown Podcast Network, your team every day. For Colobby Patnode, I’m Todd Gonzalez. Be sure to give us a follow on Twitter at l__mariners. You can follow me at tad gazales and colby at cp11. That’s CPAT11. We’re also on blue sky. You can follow me at TDG, Kobe at MLB, Kobe on the show at lockdown mariners. You can also find us on Instagram at Lockdown Mariners. Have yourself a beautiful baseball day and we’ll see you next time. Peace.

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