Would the Seattle Mariners Trade Harry Ford For THIS Package?! | Fan Fiction Friday

Would the Seattle Mariners Trade Harry Ford For THIS Package?! | Fan Fiction Friday

It’s fanfiction Friday. Let’s see what trades you cooked up. 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 Friday, December 5th, 2025. You’re listening to the Locked Ones podcast. Part of the Lockdown Podcast Network. Now, the number one sports podcast network. My name is Titan Gonzalez, and I’m joined as always by my co-host, Colobby Patnode. We’re two lifelong Marriers fans who’ve been covering the team for over half a decade. And today, it’s Fan Fiction Friday, the show where you submit your marriage trade ideas. We grade them on the 2080 scale based on creativity, uniqueness, and of course, if they work for both clubs or not. But before we do, I want to shout out our title sponsor today, Game Time. Download the Game Time app, create an account, and use the promo code locked on MLB. That’s L O C K E D O N MLB for $20 off your first purchase. Kicking us off here on FanFiction Fridays. Chewy Baseball 12 says, “Go Mariners. Fanfiction Friday is my favorite segment. Hopefully we’ll hear your thoughts on this one.” Well, you’re going to uh they got a deal here with the Arizona Diamondbacks. It’s Bryce Miller, Dangelo Sanja, Ty Pete, and Jared Sunstrom to the Diamondbacks for Catel Marte. They also asked if this doesn’t get it done, do you think it could be Felman Celestison or Michael Royal? I’m confused what you mean by that. Like in addition to what you’re offering, I guess so, right? Anyway, so Miller, Sanja, Taipeat, and Sunstrom for Marte, Chloe, pretty aggressive. Uh, I don’t think the Diamondbacks could really walk away from that. Uh, just kind of looking at their their needs and and their build and and their timeline. I mean, you get four years of Bryce Miller, who isn’t even making arbitration yet. Uh, you get six plus years of SA, who’s relatively close to the big leagues. Uh, and those are two guys who are going to slot into your rotation for the next, again, minimum four years, uh, probably three years. Uh, and Miller is, you know, when he’s healthy, he’s a pretty strong number three. And so, uh, yeah, just those two guys alone, I think definitely gets the attention of the Diamondbacks. Now, there are other issues with it because like how do the Mariners replace Bryce Miller if they can’t use SA now too because he’s in this deal as well. So, you’re kind of left with Kate Anderson and who’s not going to be ready and Ryan Sloan who’s probably not going to be ready uh, you know, for 2026. So now you have to go out and you have to get uh another starter and you have less money to do it because you’re going to have to pay Catel Marte $16 million. So there are some and now you can’t trade Luis Casio. You need Luis Casio. Right. Right. And so you don’t really have an avenue to clear payroll uh unless you’re going to trade Randy Rose Arena. So like I don’t think you can do this trade in a vacuum just because it leaves you so vulnerable. And this is why it’s difficult to look at major leaguer for major leaguer swaps because the Mariners don’t have depth in most places to be able to absorb a lot particularly in the rotation again next winter. Yes, they could do something like this because in theory Kate Anderson may have debuted by the time. Uh but he’ll certainly be ready assuming he’s help potentially too. Yeah. Well, SA’s in the steel but um Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, in general, yeah, Sanja would probably be ready to help and Sloan would probably be pretty darn close, assuming they all survive the winter, uh, you know, in the or in the summer and they’re all healthy going into next year. But yeah, I I think, you know, this is the type of thing that probably going to be required to get you to the top of the list with the Diamondbacks would be my hunch is something like this. I don’t think it would be Miller and SA. I think maybe he takes SA out and replace him with uh uh you know Cison or or Aoyo. Uh but uh yeah, I think this probably is what it takes to get like real serious about it. Um again, if you’re the Mariners, you would really prefer to do a prospect trade. Uh and if you are going to give up a major leager, you probably want it to be Cole Young because, you know, Marte is the Cole Young replacement. So, uh it’s really interesting. There are some problems with it in terms of what it does to the rest of the roster and how you have to kind of pivot the rest of your off seasonason, but you are getting Catel Marte who’s really freaking good. So, uh yeah, there there are some problems with it and and again, it’s tough to evaluate uh you know the any Marte trade. Uh but uh yeah, I think this is probably about what it would take to get their attention would be my guess. Maybe it costs less, maybe it costs more. I don’t know. But, uh, I think this is probably what it would take when I just kind of think of how a few of the other teams who are out there might be willing to offer major league talent. I think you might have to dip into yours and I just don’t know if the Mariners are going to be willing to go that route. Well, we’ve talked about this. The Diamondbacks kind of have their backs up against the wall. They’re kind of running up against the clock here because if they don’t trade him by opening day, then his 10 and five rights kick in and then the um ability their ability to trade him becomes far more complicated because now he can just nyx any any trade that he wants to. So you know that other teams know that. So, I don’t think they could do much better than getting a an established major league starter who has postseason success and a top 100ish prospect, which is what Bryce Miller and Derangelo St. Joe are. So, I think this would get it done. The problem is the trickle down effect that Miller’s exit has on the Mariners here is why I’m probably not pulling the trigger on this. I would if I felt better about their replacement options for Miller and I just I don’t like it’s one of those things where you know if Anderson had you know 70 innings in the minors last year if SA had finished you know the year in AAA although he’s in this trade so if Sloan had finished the year in double A and was really pushing and you know if I felt better about those guys coming up and being ready on opening day to contribute. I would consider this trade, but there’s no way they’re going to be ready to contribute any of them by opening day. And uh again, you just don’t really have the money like to go out and and get a better picture. So now you have to make a separate deal. Uh so like in in the grand scheme of things, in like an offseason plan type of setting where you have other moves that correlate to this move, then maybe you could pull something off like that. But just in isolation as we sit here now and and how the markets played out and all that, I just I think this is probably a no-go for the Mariners. That would be my hunch. Yeah, I’ll give this a 55 though. Yeah, I I think that’s 50 555 somewhere in that range. Definitely starts the conversation. It definitely gets the Diamondback’s attention. There’s just so many obstacles from the mariner side of things in this type of deal that it makes it feel a little bit too unrealistic to go much higher. All right, we will look at more of your trades in just a moment, but first a reminder, this episode of the Locktime Errors podcast is brought to you by Game Time and Doer. The World Cup is coming back to North America for the first time since 1994. 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Uh now the Cubs have talked about wanting starting pitching. Uh we know that they had some interest in Luis Castillo last year. Mhm. Uh and we know that the Cubs were trying to move an outfielder last year. The thing is that they did and now they’ve lost Kyle Tucker. So it’s Ian Hap, it’s P. Crow Armstrong and now they have right field open for Sea Suzuki who they really don’t want to play out there. Uh something I’m learning they’re not going to resign Kyle Tucker. They’ve already come out and said that like they’re not even pretending that they’re going to. Uh they got Owen Casey on the way, right? And but they could still keep say on DHM or DHKC or blah blah blah. So yeah. Yeah. I don’t think this gets it done. Uh I think, you know, and Sunstrom isn’t enough to to tip the scales in any direction. So, it’s interesting. It is kind of a in in a way it’s a Haniger for Ray Swap except for, you know, Suzuki’s better than Haniger uh when you acquired him significantly. So, yeah. I mean, Suzuki is the best player moving in this deal, right? which is why Sunundstrom isn’t enough to kind of tip the scales to where they take this deal. Uh so I think what’s left on Sea’s deal? Is it one year? Yeah, it’s one year. So he’s at one year and 19 mil. So basically Luis becomes a $5 million pitcher for the Cubs for this year and then next year they still have to pay him 24 million. Yeah. So they’re not going to do that. You’d have to send a load of money and and you know it would be I just I think this is too messy uh for for the Cubs. I don’t really see the benefit in it for them. It’s like the the general idea I would say is fineish. It’s just you didn’t tighten it up with all like the other details that would have to come along with it to make it all work right. There has to be cash exchange. There has to be yeah, you know, a much better prospect than Sunstrom going to the Cubs. Cuz right now what you’re relying on is like the Cubs are totally fine taking on 29 million guaranteed over the next two years give or take. Well, there’s also the trade kicker. Let’s just call it 30 for easy math. Um, and getting worse while they do it. And that like, you know, the the positional value outweighs who the overall better player is, right? I think it’s a fun starting point. Again, I just don’t see if both guys had a year left, this would make more sense. Both guys had two years left, it would make more sense. I just don’t think you’re going to get the second year like off of Castile off your books for free. I just don’t think that’s going to happen. Uh, and Jared Sunstrom is, no disrespect to him, basically free. It’s probably like a 40 because it’s just it’s there’s just not enough details in here or there’s just not, you know, you didn’t play it through to the end of the line. I think you just kind of looked at, hey, this guy’s making money, Luis is making money. This team needs a starting pitcher. The Mariners could use a, you know, an outfield bat, a right fielder. So, that makes sense. And it’s like, well, yeah, on the surface, yes. But when you kind of drill down a little bit deeper, more holes start to uh appear. So, yeah, decent start. It just it needs more work. So, I’m going to give it like a 40. Yeah. 40. Quick side note on the Cubs. Mhm. Yesterday, there was a report that they were interested in Alex Bregman. Yes. So, if that happens, Nicoer might be back on the table. Just going to throw that back out there, but uh we’ll see. Again, long way to go. We don’t It’s probably not going to happen. But how do you get Nicoer to the Mariners? You probably rooting for Alex Bregman to sign with the uh with the Cubs. So sure, we’ll see what happens there. But uh yeah, Triton Therapy has a deal here with the Phillies. Harry Ford and Dominic Can Zone to Philadelphia for Amundo Sosa and Matt Strom. Sosa’s a tremendous fit. Stum’s a tremendous fit. Yeah, six really seven years of Harry Ford. Yeah, at least six, possibly seven of Harry. Uh, this is kind of a weird Harry Ford is a tough one when people will send him in like these fanfiction Friday trades because sometimes people treat him like he doesn’t have any value because the Mariners don’t need him because they have Cal Raleigh and other times they treat him like, you know, he’s an elite prospect and and he’s not. He’s a very good prospect. Yeah. But yeah, this one it just feels a bit too too much on the Seattle. I think Harry Ford to Philly makes a lot of sense, especially right now while Real Muto is a free agent. Uh maybe that changes here in a few weeks, but like right now Harry Ford makes a lot of sense for the Philadelphia Phillies. Uh and the Phillies have a lot of pieces that make sense for the Mariners. Um including Stum and Sosa. Yes. Um it’s just man, yeah, seven years of Harry Ford for one year of Stum who’s one of the best relievers in baseball. Sosa, one of the best utility guys in baseball. Great fit for the Mariners, right? But overall, you’re getting ideally 300 played appearances from Sosa and about 60 innings out of St. 60 70 innings from Stum. Yeah, that’s tough. It’s almost like, hey, is there a prospect that we can get back or is there like a a more controllable piece we could get included uh to kind of make up for that? I I don’t know. Like if this was Kirking instead of Stum, I mean, you get a little bit worse of a pitcher, but you get four years of club control. Maybe. Yeah, I don’t know. We’re actually probably going to be talking about that a little later on, so we can continue that discussion. Spoiler alert. So, yeah. Um, a lot of it makes sense. It’s Philly could use some young catching help. The Mariners have Cal Raleigh. Gary Ford’s never going to be the everyday catcher for the Mariners. Almost certainly not unless Cal gets hurt. Uh, the Phillies have a lot of pieces that make sense for Seattle, including Shum and and Sosa. So, like all the pieces are there. It’s just when you actually like start talking it out. Yeah. six to seven years of Harry Ford who is an elite on base guy who’s at least an average defensive catcher who is 22 23 years old uh and is athletic enough to provide value for Seattle somewhere besides behind the plate uh is it’s tough to give that up for what you hope is only 300 350 plate appearances in 70 innings uh out of two guys who are going to be free agents who you’re not going to sign either one of them after this here. So, yeah, it’s just it’s tough pill to swallow. Yeah. Um it’s just too rich for my blood, even for how good Stro is. Um I’m I’m going to go 40. Yeah. Again, I think if you can get if you could get because also like I think the Bears are like absolutely hell no on this. Yeah, maybe. I think where it might get interesting again is like could you get like a in this return could you get a player who’s further away but has like real upside like a Matthew Fischer interesting arm. Uh could you get him attached to this deal to kind of make up for some of the lost value then maybe like the Mariners will get creative but then also Wilski. So I don’t know. I think it’s a 45 because it all makes sense until you actually get down to like the where it’s like seven years of a guy for again 300 plate appearances and 70 innings from two guys before they leave in free agency. That that’s tough. Yeah. Yeah. Even though they’re really good and they’re phenomenal fits for the Mariners. All right, we got a couple more of your trades to go over in just a moment, but first a reminder. This episode of the Locked Ones podcast is brought to you by FanDuel. NFL Sundays move fast. One big play and suddenly everything feels different. That’s what makes live betting with FanDuel so exciting. 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As always, if you want to hear from me and Colobby even more and help support the show, we have a Patreon. and it’s called Control the Zone. And on there we talk Mariners, Seahawks, all that good stuff. For more information, go to patreon.com/control the zone. Link in the description of this episode. Uh Mariners fans 77 has a deal here with the Dodgers. Randy Rosarena to LA for EMTT Shehan and Alex Freeland. One year of Randy is not getting you this. It might get you one of these guys. Maybe. Maybe one, but not both. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, look at what Taylor Ward got, right? Yeah. Ry’s gonna get roughly what Taylor Ward got. And you know, obviously Grayson Rodriguez is kind of a unique player and that he’s extremely talented but extremely hurt. And so I I think one pick one and then at that point, is there any sense for the Mariners to do it? Not really. So I think this is a pretty significant Dodgers overpay. And honestly, when you factor in like what it actually would cost relative to market, I don’t think that it makes a lot of sense for the Mariners to do it if the Dodgers aren’t going to overpay because like right now, kind of like with the pitching, they don’t have a Randy Rose Arena replacement. They should be looking to add outfielders this winter because they have nothing in right field that you can count on. So you want to make another hole and and like I guess my my hunch would be is that the person who sent this trade would be like oh well plays left and then right field is can zone and and Robles. Sure. Uh and then obviously you have Shihan or or Freeland. Uh but again I think you get one of these guys. You get one of these. What is Shehan doing for you specifically? Is he starting for you? I probably bullpen. Yeah. Like again, because these aren’t offseason plans, maybe the idea is you trade Luis Castillo then, but a good luck finding a trade partner. Yeah. Uh but I mean ultimately Shihan’s going to move to the bullpin anyways because at some point Kate Anderson is going to come up and he’s better than Shehan or at least we think he will be. Yeah. Yeah. So, um yeah, I really like Shihan. I I don’t think the Dodgers would trade Shihan for for one year of Randy. No, the Dodgers are probably The Dodgers are probably trying to get Kyle Tucker right now as well. Like they’re probably they’re probably trying to do something bigger. We assume that they don’t, right? We have to assume that the Dodgers have interest in Randy Rose Arena. If that’s the case, I think you could probably get Freeland. There’s just really not a path for him to get playing time. And he’s not in a le kind of a Harry Ford prospect where it’s like a prospect. Freeland I can totally buy into. She not not as much. No. Yeah. So, it it’s a drastic overpay from the Dodgers perspective. And if it’s not an overpay, I don’t see why the Mariners would move Randy again, unless they need the money for somewhere else, but we can’t factor that in when we’re talking about this trade. So, Freeland for Rose Arena straight up would be interesting. Obviously, Freeland fits pretty nicely at third base, but is he better than Colt Emerson in 2026? Maybe, but maybe not. So, yeah, I think you went too hard here. So, I’m I’m gonna go 35. Yeah, I think that’s 3540. Uh Dan has a deal with the Pirates. Harry Ford to the Pirates for Braxton Ashcraft. It’s a fun deal. Uh I like Ashcraft obviously. I like Harry Ford quite a bit. These one for one young major league swaps are are always fun. it. I mean, this is very Monttero for Paneda, you know, type of thing. Mhm. Why would the Mariners do like what what do the Mariners get out of this? Because they have their five starters. Yeah, they have this makes I think this makes a lot of sense after a Luis Castillo trade. Yes, 100%. And we just saw that like the Pirates just traded a young starter for a young offensive player who’s going to be in their opening day lineup. This is a very similar trade to that one. It’s just the Mariners don’t need Ashcraft, so there’s not much reason for them to do this. And again, I like Ashcraft quite a bit. Uh this would be a very fun trade if it went down. But then the next question is, okay, did you just trade your your backup catcher for a relief pitcher or is there another deal coming down the pipeline where you trade Luis Castillo and Ashcraft you know slides into that spot and then uh you know maybe next winter you end up trading Ashcraft because you wanted Katie Anderson or maybe Kate Anderson gets traded or maybe Logan Gilbert gets traded and both of those guys are in the rotation. So I’m not saying no. I think this is good. You could stash Ash Ashcraft in the bullpen this year and then next year you might trade Kirby, you might trade Gilbert, you might trade somebody else, Luis, and then you so you could always have Ashcraft and like Anderson in the rotation next year. But as things sit right now, Ashcraft’s going to the bullpen and assuming they bring back the same five starters or even four of the five starters in 2026 come back, Anderson’s going to be the guy that gets first crack at the rotation, not Ashcraft. So there’s a possibility you’re you’re trading Harry Ford for a reliever for at least a couple years, but which I mean they were willing to do with Don, but Dron’s obviously, you know, in a different stratosphere. Yeah. three playoff runs with one of the best, you know, closers in baseball. Yeah. Um, evaluation wise, I think this is really good. Yep. Agree. Um, yeah. So, you’re going to get a high score for that. I don’t think the Mariners would do this. Um, no, I think the Pirates would do this. Yeah, they do. They really need catching help. And I think if the Mariners were able to trade Luis Castillo, they would also do something like this. Yeah. Um, I think I’m gonna give you I think I’m going to give you a 60. Yeah. What if Ty what if I told you that the Mariners traded Luis Castillo uh for like I don’t know they got like a a relief arm like whatever like the deal that we came up with in our offseason plan. Let’s say they make that trade first and then this trade comes across the table. Then what are you giving it? 180. Okay. I would give this a 70. Yeah. Yeah. It’s it’s fun. It’s creative. It’s different. Uh it’s And how about this? It is a trade with the Pittsburgh Pirates where people aren’t stupidly saying, “How about you trade for Paul Ske?” Not going to happen. We’re wasting zero minutes on your Paul Ske trade talks on Fanfiction Friday. Well, you you just wasted about 15 seconds, actually. Fine. That’s not a minute. Moving on. Your false traits are never getting on FanFiction Friday. Stop sending you’re still 20 seconds. Done. All right. That’s the most we’re going to mention that guy’s name on this on this segment ever. At least for the next couple years. Uhhuh. 30 seconds. All right. I didn’t say his name. So, yeah. You you want to join me here on the 70 bandwagon? No, because I I will never trade Harry forward and give it a 70. That’s fair. That’s fair. So yeah, 55 as things sit right now. If they trade Castillo 60, you know, it’s really fun and creative. It’s different. Uh and I think it’s fairly realistic. So yeah, kind of checks all the boxes. I mean, the Pirates are a team that I’ve thought about a lot for a position player for pitcher swap. You had your whole Cole Young for Hunter Barco. Yeah. To make the Scooble thing work. Yeah. In my uh my personal offseason plan. Um also some I don’t know if you saw it this morning, Ty, but some murmurss at uh the school trade talks are happening. Yeah. So, yeah. Yeah. The Tigers kind of refused to come right out and say like we’re not trading them. So, and they’re engaging. Like I I guess Buster said something like they’re not calling people, but like they’re taking calls and so it’s like Yeah. Yeah. I mean, maybe we’ll see. We’ll we’ll we’ll see. We’ll see. All right. Last trade of the day comes from Switch. Uh big deal here with the Phillies. It’s another Harry Ford to Philadelphia trade, which again makes a ton of sense. Uh, but it’s not just Harry going to Philly. It’s also Logan Evans. It’s Victor Robas. That’s interesting. Uh, Taipei and, uh, the competitive balance round B pick that the Mars were just awarded a few days ago. Uh, for Matt Stum, Alec Bomb, Orion Kirking, and $5 million in cash. So, it’s one year Stro, one year Bomb, right? Mhm. Yep. And then like four years of Kirkine, I think. Yeah, I think four. three or four. So, basically what this comes down to, we we’ll get into everything else that’s added uh you know on top of Harry, but just kind of going back to the Edmundo Sosa Matt Stum deal is Boom and then the you know the four years of Kirk Rain who’s pretty good reliever obviously his season didn’t end in you know spectacular fashion but he’s still a good reliever. Um, is that enough for you to find to to go, you know what? Yeah, I’ll trade Harry Ford because I’m getting strong also. Yeah, you’re getting strong and kirkin. There’s your relievers that you need this winter. Yeah. Uh, yeah, probably. Um I think and you get your third baseman which I may or may not be better than Ben Williamson in overall value. Um yeah he’s fine. I’m not crazy about Alec Balm frankly. I’d rather have Sosa to be honest, but B’s fine. He’s like a two- win walking two and a half win player. He’s fine. Um yeah, but obviously for Harry Ford it’s a big piece in this. The comp round B pick stings a little bit. Pete and uh Robles, whatever. If you personally like those guys, like fine. But like from a baseball standpoint, they’re both kind of eh. Um so yeah, I think I’d probably do this trade. I don’t think the Phillies would do this trade, but maybe maybe it’s possible. Um I think the Phillies might rather have uh than Roles, but maybe I’m wrong. Yeah. So, it’s interesting. That’s for sure. Yeah. Um, obviously like Ford’s the big prize here and again he makes just so so so so much sense for the Phillies right now. Um, and they get an outfielder which you know they’re looking for right now. Rubless, you know, try and take a shot on him to bounce back. It’s a very reasonable deal, very reasonable bet for them to take on him. Uh they get a competitive balance round B pick. Um but moving three pieces off their major league roster. Does that really seem like Dave Dumbrossski speed? No, not really. Yeah, it’s the Phillies are in a weird spot because it’s almost unavoidable for them to not like take steps back from where they’ve been the last few years just because they’re running up against it in the payroll situation and they’re not willing to blow past, you know, the the top luxury tax threshold and the team’s getting a lot older and, you know, a lot of these contracts are starting to hit uh the the long-term deals for Turner and and Wheeler. and Harper, they’re starting to hit and they have a bunch of guys who are ARP three uh and they’re all going to be departing after this year. So, they’re kind of in this weird spot where they should kind of be like reshuffleling a little bit, but they can’t do it too much because it’s almost impossible for them to be like bad enough that they’re not going to compete, you know what I mean? So, like they’re kind of in this weird they either have to, you know, dive head first into the free agency and and spend some more long-term money to keep this going or they have to scale it back a little bit and, you know, trading a couple guys who are going to be free agents next year who you’re not going to resign anyways. Uh, probably the best way to do it. So, Bow and Stum, I could see that. No problem. Uh, and then like the major leaguers you get back, hypothetically, Robles, whatever, and Harry Ford. Ford’s probably their opening day catcher. Uh, especially it’s doesn’t seem like they’re going to sign Real Muto back. So, they’re getting a couple major leaguers while trading a couple off of their roster. But, yeah, I just doesn’t feel like a Dumbrossski move. It doesn’t. But that’s a move that I think they they should make. Agreed. Yeah. And I think the just the impact that you would be bringing in for 2026, the year that matters the most for you from the mayor’s perspective. I think you you have to do this despite how much, you know, we all love Harry Ford. Yeah. Agree. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think you I think you’d have to do this. Um I’ll give you I’ll give you 60. I was going to go 50 55 just because it doesn’t seem very dumb. That’s That’s true. Yeah. It’s not super realistic. Yeah. Yeah. You know what? I’ll I’ll bring it down to a 55. Sorry, switch. All right. That is going to do it for our show. So, 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 Ted Gonzalez. Be sure to give us a follow on Twitter at l_mmers. You can follow me at Ted Gazales and Colby at CPAD1. That’s CPAT11. We’re also on Blue Sky. You can follow me at TDG, Colby at MLB Colobby, and 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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