Measuring the SUCCESS of the 2025 Seattle Mariners + the BIGGEST Questions Heading Into the Winter

Measuring the SUCCESS of the 2025 Seattle Mariners + the BIGGEST Questions Heading Into the Winter

So, now that we’ve had some time to process the end of the Mariners season, how do we feel about it? Let’s put the 2025 Seattle Mariners to rest. Colby, hit it. [Music] 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 Wednesday, October 22nd, 2025. This is Tutting Gazal and Colobby Patnode for the Lockdown errors podcast part of the Lockdown podcast network. Your team every day. This episode is brought to you by FanDuel. Right now, new customers can bet just $5. And if you bet wins, you’ll get $300 in bonus bets to use across the app. Download the FanDuel app today. And 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, the Bears season, as we all know, is over. It ends in heartbreaking fashion in game seven of the ALCS. Today, we’re going to look back on the season as a whole. Uh discuss how we feel about all of it. We’ll talk about what we’ll remember most about this team, and we’ll also give a general overview of the off seasonason to come. Just our general thoughts uh going into the winter. Uh but we should start with um you know a conversation that we had mentioned in passing over the last few weeks. Was this a successful season for the Mariners? Now Cal Raleigh uh after the game on Monday outright called it a failure. Obviously emotions running at their highest uh right after after that one. So I’m not surprised that he would say that. Uh but Colobby, you and I talked about this with Anders Hurst in our ALCS round table that, you know, accomplishing what this team did during the regular season, you know, making the trades that they did at the deadline, going on that insane run in September, winning the division, all that. Um just to not win a playoff series, that would have been a failure. You would have had a pretty sour taste in your mouth if that happened. But since they did wind up beating the Tigers in the ALDS, that kind of lifted the pressure of all of that. But I guess because of how the ALCS went and how Monday night specifically went, does that kind of retroactively change how you feel about this season? Uh, no. No. I think overall it’s still a positive uh season. again, you know, like I want Cal and and Julio and and those guys to consider this a you know, a failure of a season because they didn’t win the World Series. Um, and that is the goal. But, uh, you know, if you want to look at it in in a black and white term, then I suppose this is a failure of a season just like it’s going to be for 29 other teams. But, uh, I think, you know, it’s important for us to look at the context that we don’t want players to look at. We want players to be upset that they didn’t win. Like that that’s kind of the point. Uh but for us when we look back at this season, you know, they won a playoff series. They won their first division title in 24 years. They got to the ALCS for the first time in 24 years. They got to a game seven for the first time ever. Uh they were eight outs away from going to their first ever World Series. Uh and they did it uh largely uh with the massive support of a fan base that really for the last two and a half years had been kind of I don’t want to say fading per se, but like the the interest level amongst the team had slowly been fading after their really cool 2022 run where they broke the initial drought. So, uh they they’ve reinvigorated the the fan base and and the region. Mariners baseball is is cool again. Uh it is, you know, we we saw Mariners baseball be so important that a game 3,000 miles away led to the cheapest Monday Night Football tickets in Seattle in about 20 years. Uh with nobody wanting to go to that game, hardly anybody in the stadium paying attention to that game until, you know, the second half started. Uh so we we we’ve seen this. We saw the buyin from other franchises. We saw the buying from, you know, Mariner fans who have been reignited and and, you know, their passions are are back up and we saw new people, you know, jump aboard and and all that and and, you know, you can call them fair weather fans or whatever or bandwagoners. Who cares? They’re here. Keep them. Yeah. The goal should be to keep them uh and not let them go. And it it’s one of those things where you know the fan base which is regional it’s one of the things that Seattle the Mariners and the Seahawks as well as they have is that they are a regional team. There is not a lot of you know competition within a thousand miles thousand mile radius uh of these teams and so you have to have the attention of Idaho and and Oregon and Eastern Washington and all that and they got it. They got it. So, I think when you look at the the grand picture or the big picture here, this season was a success in a lot of ways. Ultimately, again, I want Cal to think it’s a failure. That’s where I want his mindset to be. Uh, but I think from our perspective, a perspective of the fan base, a perspective of the health of the franchise, uh, in general, this absolutely was a a very successful season because, uh, they went places they’ve never been. They put the team kind of back on the map. a little bit here after it like this is the next upstart team. this team could be the next Astros and then they tanked for two years and everybody same old Mariners right back to it the whole 54% saga all that you know blah blah blah and now we’ve kind of or they’ve kind of turned the narrative a little bit once again the key is going to be to continue to turn it by having the offseason they need to have and we’ll talk plenty about that uh you know over the next few months but uh yeah I think ultimately it is a very successful season but I think the success the long-term success of this season is going to be about what ownership does over the next four or five months. Yeah. And we’ll we’ll talk about that a little later on a bit more uh in the show. But uh yeah, I mean this off season that they had leading into this season was so bad that if you told me like they’re going to go to the ALCS, I would have been doing back flips. like one I wouldn’t have believed you frankly cuz look going into this season you know obviously they had a lot of talent still right with the rotation and Julio and Cal and obviously no one could have expected the year that Cal was going to go on but like still like Cal to me was already the best catcher in franchise history he was already the best catcher in in Major League Baseball uh going into this season before he did anything that he did this year. Um, so like there was obviously a lot of talent that you know could potentially carry you um into, you know, contention. Um, but you know, I I said so many times leading into the season, you know, whenever we talked about, you know, what our thoughts were on this team or whenever I made some guest appearances on, you know, shows, whether it be here on the Lockdown Network or on some other Mariners shows or what have you, that like if you told me that they won, you know, like 80 games, I wouldn’t be surprised. If you told me that they won like 95 games and they won the division, I wouldn’t be surprised. This was just such a high variance club. I just I didn’t think though that the likelihood was that they would be the, you know, the 90 plus win team that won the division and all that stuff, right? I thought by far the likelier outcome of those two would be they only won like 77 to 80 games, things went sideways, they weren’t able to stay healthy enough, stuff like that, right? So the fact that like they got to this point blew my expectations out of the water. So it’s a roaring success frankly especially given the fact that again they did really not I mean like look they brought Jorge Palano back and that was a huge huge huge win for them. Huge. Yeah. But like the process behind that I mean like you remember how we were talking about that move and how we were just talking about the offseason in general. It was a terrible, terrible, terrible off season. They really did nothing to support this club and put it in a great position to, you know, do what they wound up doing in the end. Um, so yeah, the fact that they um that they got to this point, I mean, yeah, it it sucks how it ended. It sucks that they’re not still playing baseball right now. I am bitter about how game seven went. I’m bitter about the fact that you even got to a game seven, frankly. Uh I’m bitter about the reasons why you got to a game seven and all that. But in general, taking a step back, objectively looking at this season as a whole, I don’t know how you could not say it is a massive, massive, massive success. It is one of the best seasons in this franchise’s history, which frankly says more about this franchise’s history, I think, but still like it was a hell of a ride that we all went on that this club took us on. Uh it’s a season that I won’t forget. And again, like I said on Monday, I was, you know, I’m incredibly grateful to have helped tell the story of and um yeah, I just, you know, I guess for me, maybe retroactively the the levels of of success for this season changes depending on what they do next. Yeah, it’s it really is, you know, the important thing whether you think this season is is a success or not, right? If you’re just one of those, they didn’t win the World Series, it’s a failure. First of all, I don’t know why you’re watching sports. That sounds like a miserable way to take in sports. Championship or it doesn’t matter. Nothing matters if you don’t win a championship. Okay, that sounds terrible. Uh but if that is you, I think the important thing is whether that is you or not is we need to determine is this the outlier? Is this the one out of every 10 years maybe they could do something like this? Or is this the start of becoming a type the type of franchise that regularly plays in these high leverage postseason games and regularly plays and you know deep into October and you know eventually hopefully gets to a World Series and wins one. But like can they go to the ALCS you know three times in in five years or whatever? I mean can they can you get to a point where the Mariners don’t go to the ALCS? we look at like that’s a disappointing outcome because right now it’s really impossible to look at the Mariners going to the ALCS and saying like that’s a disappointing outcome because I mean it’s literally as far as they’ve ever been. So yeah, I think you know the question is uh the important question here is not so much is this a success or is this a failure. I think the important question here is is this the start of something or is it the end of something and you missed your opportunity here and now you kind of have to not start over per se, but you kind of have to rebuild back into to where you are and we won’t know the answer to that for a couple years unfortunately. So, what will we remember most about this season? We’ll talk about that in just a moment. But first, a reminder, this episode of the Lockdown Merrors podcast is brought to you by Monarch and Price Picks. Let’s be honest. Most of us can’t even name all our financial accounts, let alone what they’re worth. Between 401ks, savings, and investments, it’s easy to lose track. And that can mean leaving money on the table. 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Nobody in American League history has hit more in one calendar season, including the postseason obviously. Um so and he did it as a catcher and he he played pretty much every single day and he was great. And whether or not he wins the MVP or not, who knows? Uh but he had the best year of anybody in the American League and and so you’re going to remember that and and that’s the first thing you’re going to remember. Unfortunately, yeah, you are going to remember Dan Wilson’s blunder. I mean, it it’s still being talked about a couple days later as like the single dumbest thing that a manager did this postseason. uh you’re going to remember, at least I’m going to remember uh that I I struggle to say this because it it has like play this back in in nine months written all over it, but did we maybe start to see the emergence of Julio Rodriguez clutch hitter? Is he started to change that narrative around? because I mean he tried to carry the game seven performance on his back and he did for a majority of it. He tried to will them to a game one win uh against the Tigers way back when. Remember he was the only guy getting on base and and then he won them game two with his double down the line. Uh Julio didn’t have a ton of hits. I think you look at his like batting average, it’s pretty mediocre, but he had a ton of big hits in this uh in this run and and also, you know, some some bad at bats. That’s we’re going to remember the bad ones more than the good ones. That’s just typically how it works. But he had a ton of big hits in this one and uh in this playoff run. Uh I think you’re going to remember Jorge Palano obviously uh like playoff Jorge. Uh didn’t end very well. The last three games against Toronto were bad unfortunately. um just kind of ran out of steam there at the end, but obviously he kind of carried you in the Detroit series uh in a lot of ways. So, but yeah, you’re going to remember Cal uh you’re going to remember uh Jorge Palano’s insane run. You’re going to remember Josh Naylor’s introduction to Seattle uh very clearly. Um and and yeah, you’re going to remember a bunch of the smaller hits. Polo’s game winner. Um beating Scooble four times, uh including twice in five days. uh you know and I hope most people I know most people will remember him for giving up the home run but I hope people I still appreciate like the insane run that Bazardo went on uh down the stretch here where um you know poor guy is going to be forever associated with one pitch but he was your you know your best reliever for most of the month and and unfortunately you know got used one game too much and and that was all she wrote and and so you know he he really We left everything out there on the line for you. Yeah. Um so yeah, I think you’re mostly going to remember the positive things here, but yeah, part of the the positivity uh there has to be some negative things that come out of this season and and there were and you know, but I think when we talk about 2025, it’s going to be fondly, but I think the thing that people are going to like 10 years from now, people are going to be like, what do you still remember about the 2025 team? I think the first answer is going to be one of two things. It’s either going to be Cal Raleigh or it’s going to be Dan Wilson is a and they blew a chance to go to the World Series. I really think those are going to be the two things unfortunately. And it kind of stinks that one decision is going to be neck andneck with a guy who hit 65 home runs while playing catcher. But it’s going to be it has to be. It’s the same thing as you know Pete Carol throwing from the one. It’s very similar to that. And unfortunately, when we talk about the 2013 Seahawks, we talk about the Legion of Boom and the Super Bowl demolishing Pton Manning and and the tip and and all these great things. When we talk about, you know, Super Bowl 49, when we talk about the 2014 Seahawks, what do we talk about? The play at the one yard line. Yeah. We we don’t talk about the comeback in the NFC Championship. We talk about the one yard line. We don’t talk about the Chris Matthews game. We don’t talk about, you know, Marawn’s best season ever. We don’t talk about, you know, all the insanity and and that went in with the Percy Harvin thing. And we don’t talk about that. We talk about one thing about that 2014 team. Uh, and in a lot of ways, Cal Raleigh was this version of Marshon Lynch, 2014 Seahawks. And we don’t talk about 2014 Marshon when we talk about that team. We talk about the the one play. And I think Dan Wilson, unfortunately, has put himself in that that category where Cal Raleigh was incredible. And he had a really good playoff run, too, by the way. It’s not like he just, you know, fell apart. Was amazing in the playoffs, right? He’s your second best hitter pretty much throughout the the start of the Well, second or third best hitter throughout the entire playoff run. And he had some big home runs and all that while catching again all these games. Caught every single pitch of the postseason. Um, but we’re I hope we talk about that, but I I just I think the way we are wired as sports fans is we’re going to talk about the negative as much as we’re going to talk about the positive. And the negative, the biggest overwhelming negative of 2025 is going to be 10 years from now, Bazardo versus Muios uh in that situation. So, yeah, I mean, I I I think those have to be the answers. It has to be Cal and then it has to be how Dan managed game seven. I think those are the two things we’re going to talk about. I’m gonna remember the the trade deadline, the you know, Cal season obviously unfortunately Dan’s decision there in game seven. Um the series in Houston though, I I think to me that was the best moment of the entire year was going down to Houston and kicking the absolute you know what out of them. That felt amazing. Well, it’s going to be a very interesting off season to say the least. We will go over our general thoughts heading into the winter in just a moment. But first, a reminder, this episode of the Lifetime Errors podcast is brought to you by FanDuel and Rouette. The NFL season is here and FanDuel is making sure you’re ready for kickoff with a can’t miss offer. Right now, new customers can bet just $5. And if your bet wins, you’ll get $300 in bonus bets to use across the app. FanDuel makes every game more exciting, whether you’re watching your team or just keeping an eye on your fantasy lineup. It’s quick, easy, and the best way to add a little more energy to Sundays. 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You know, we’re going to talk about every single possible player they could possibly acquire under the sun over the next few months. We’re going to go every single avenue. We’re going to talk about every single possible thing that they could do this off season. But to just get the ball rolling on offseason talk as we kind of put the 2025 Mariners to rest uh today, let’s just go over our general thoughts going into this off season. So Colobby, just like what’s your general I don’t know, just your your your approach to to this off seasonason. Just kind of what are your general thoughts going into this into this winter? How much are the Mariners going to spend? Because when you look at just bringing back the guys who are under contract for the 2026 season, that alone is going to eat up, you know, again, assuming you you tender the people who you’re going to tender. And we’ll talk about uh arbitration and all that pretty soon. Uh, but yeah, I just I looked at the math today and and right now just to bring everybody back on the contracts they’ve already signed and to fill out the rest of your 40man roster with even league minimum guys. Um, you’re talking about already having about 130ish million dollars committed to this group. 135 uh kind of depending on how they want to uh, you know, calculate the the minimum guys and how many they need. And that’s not counting Gino and and Polo and and Naylor um and Mitch Garver and Caleb Ferguson, two guys I’m sure everybody wants to bring back. So, you know that it’s that is counting for the payroll or the arbitration estimates that are now out there. Um so, like they finished this year at about 164, I believe, is what Spotra had it at as a final. uh $164 million payroll. Well, if they want to go back there, they want to get back there, then they’re going to have about $30 million to spend. But again, that is without having ressigned Josh Naylor or ressigned, you know, any of these other guys uh that you might want to resign. So, it really is going to come and there’s no guarantee they want to go back to 160. Last year, they wanted to operate it at around 150. And so, yeah, this really is about what is John Stanton and the ownership group willing to do, how important is it to them to maintain this momentum? And that’s going to determine the whole off season because, you know, it’s really hard to cut money from your payroll and get better the following year. And and even if like, for example, even if they say, “Oh, no, we’re raising payroll another $5 million from what we started last year and it is 155.” Okay. Well, if it’s 155 and you’re starting at 135, Naylor just took up all 20 million and I still have holes at second, third, uh, DH, left field, right or right field, left field, one of them. We have a corner outfield spot. Uh, so now I have to what? I have to trade Luis Castillo to go get some more money. But now I have to spend that money on a starting pitcher because I don’t trust Emerson Hancock or or Logan Evans, and neither should anybody uh to, you know, be a number five starter. And now I got to go spend that money to replace Luis Castillo and blah blah blah like we talked about all last winter as well. Now, do I have to go trade JP Crawford to try and and find some money to go get some players that I desperately need? It really is hard for the Mariners to get better on paper. if ownership is not willing to step up and commit to maintaining this level of of excellence. Um, you know, and it’s great that they were able to do it once, but they have to do it again and again and again and and winning is a recommmitment every off season. And so far, the Mariners ownership hasn’t shown that it’s committed to winning at all really when you want to break it down. Uh, so that is what it’s all about. Unfortunately, it’s you you kind of you trust Jerry and Justin for the most part. Not that they’re perfect, but you trust them to make pretty good moves and and be aggressive in trade talks and, you know, try and look under every stone and all of that. You really do trust them to do that. But they’re also, we also know that when they have as limited resources as they did, for example, last winter, they just can’t make things happen. Like there has to be some some give and take. there has to be some some backup plans and and all that. And so, yeah, it’s kind of one of those things like, do I trust the front office to do a pretty good job? Yes, because they’ve had to navigate this BS for the last three winters. Uh, do I trust the front office to do what they need to do or the uh ownership to do what they need to do? No, not at all. And so that really to me is going to tell the tell the tale uh of what the Mariners, you know, do this winter is it’s going to come down to how much does does John Stanton and and Chris Larson and that group actually care about winning? We’re going to find out. So over the course of this season, we got little nibbles of support from ownership for the front office where they kind of got out of the way. Now, we don’t know everything that happened and what uh limitations were still put in place and all that, but you know, they were able to extend Cal at the start of the year. They were able to take a shot on Leodyver and essentially light $3 million on fire because that just did not work out at all. And then they were able to add about $10 million in payroll, which isn’t a lot, but it’s something. And it’s something that they haven’t been willing to do in the past to go out and get AO Suarez and Josh Naylor and Caleb Ferguson uh at the deadline. What I’m interested to see is do those little nibbles of support turn into a bigger gesture this off season. They’ve obviously made a lot of playoff revenue. Uh but there’s also the the TV aspect of this that now they’re you know root sports is no longer a thing and uh Major League Baseball is going to be running their their TV production and all that you know how does that impact things financially? Are they going to use that as an excuse? Historically speaking the likelihood is they will uh as well as the impending lockout at the end of 2026. So, um I’m very much in the uh in the boat of, you know, I’ll believe it when I see it. But we did see some changes in how the Mariners operated and their willingness to do more things. Their willingness to kind of buck trend over the course of this year, specifically at the deadline with going out and going after the the high-profile rentals and being willing to not just go get one of them, but both of them, you know, the two biggest bats available. Will that continue? Uh the other thing too is just like how much turnovers are going to be on this roster because obvious obviously there’s the three free agents the three big big free agents Naylor Polo and and Gino. Uh but there’s also radio Rosarena in the last year of his club control and he’s set to make $18.2 million in arbitration. That’s the projection from MLB trade rumors and they’re very very good at projecting that stuff. So that’s probably roughly where he’s going to land. Um JP Crawford in the last year of his deal, he’s not a good defensive shortstop anymore. What do you do about that? Do you keep him on the roster but move him to a different position? Um Luis Castillo, you tried to trade him this past off season. This year though, he was the stabilizer in your rotation when you know guys got hurt and he was a big reason that you got to this point frankly even though that there were times where he struggled mightily but he’s also do a nice chunk of change and his no trade clause lifts after January 1st. So has he pitched his final inning in in a Mariners uniform? There are a lot of questions here. I think the biggest one too, is this finally the year where they do trade one of the pitchers? Is this the No, Kirby or Gilbert specifically? Yeah. Gilbert or or Kirby? Yeah. Right. Is this the year where they they finally do that? Um, so it’s possible we could see a lot of big names leave. It’s possible that we could also just assume that’s going to happen and that really doesn’t and they just kind of build upon this club, right? Sure. Uh I’m definitely at least leaving myself open-minded to that possibility. I don’t think that will be the outcome here. I do think there will be significant turnover at the major league level uh for this club. Um, but it is possible that, you know, part of investing more in this club is just keeping the guys that are making a good amount of money on this club. Sure. You also need to get better and it’s tough to do that if you don’t add from the outside. So, that’s what I’m saying is that’s what I’m saying is, you know, building on top of what you already have. Well, the only way you can do that is if ownership spends significantly more than they have. So, Exactly. They all kind of go hand in hand. I I would say this like my sincere hope one for the front office, one for the ownership just to keep things fair. One, I hope the front office has learned the value of rental players and how club control, particularly when you’re in the middle of a World Series contention title, doesn’t matter as much. And you’re going to take some L’s on long-term trades, who cares? You’re doing it for short-term relief. That is the point. So hopefully that carries through because in the winter we know the Mariners don’t do that and hard they hardly do it in the summer until this last year. So hopefully that is something they’ve learned and they move on from uh for the ownership. I hope the lesson that they learned is wow when we invest in the ball club in the 26-man roster and not in bars across the street from the stadium. People will show up. 30,000 people will come on a Tuesday night when we play the freaking Rockies if we have a good baseball team, we have a good product. So, I I hope those are the lessons that are learned and I hope that they are applied that ownership needs to spend more and they need to invest more in the ball club, not in the stuff surrounding the stadium. Invest your money in the ball club. And I hope and I hope that the front office has learned that like wow rentals can be impactful and they can be a differencemaker and we should be more aggressive in that market because not only are they, you know, good players that we can get that we’ve largely been ignoring for the last 5 10 years, but also they’re a lot cheaper to get than multiple years of a guy. So, I hope those are the two lessons that are learned uh by Jerry and Justin, but also from from Stanton and and Larson. Who do I think is more likely to learn their lesson? Jerry and Justin. Yeah. Uh by a mile. But those are the two lessons I hope that both of those groups learn learned in the 2025 season. Yeah. I just hope that they approach this thing from here on out as the most important club is the current one. Now, you still have to strike a balance. You You definitely don’t want to do anything that just kills you for years and years and years down the road. No team has ever gone all in on one season. That’s not what we’re suggesting. We’re not suggesting to burn down the farm so that you can have one shot in 2026 and then you have to start the whole thing over again. But, well, maybe the Padres’s have done that, but yeah, they’ve gotten really close. Sure. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But uh but yeah, like the most important club has to be the the current one from here on out. Like how do I win the World Series in 2026? That’s why I brought up the Scooble thing, right? Whether that happens or not, whatever. But like Yes. Yes. Yes. I know. I’m going to keep I’m going to put a board right there. And every time you mention scoob, I’m going to do a little line. I might have to get a couple boards. Sure. Sure. But um yeah, like that’s why I mentioned the school thing is like how if if that’s possible like that helps me win the World Series in 2026 obviously like that should be a priority that should be something that I heavily heavily consider and heavily go after right. Sure. Um even if it is going to be pricey even if it is you know a huge cost for maybe only one year of gain. Mhm. So, um, those are the things that I want to see out of this front office and out of this organization in general moving forward, not just for 2026, but beyond is that it’s all about winning the World Series now. not setting ourselves up to, you know, again, you got to strike a balance and there are going to be moves that are that are made with, you know, the long-term more in mind, but for the most part, I want the goal and I want the motivating force behind most of the roster decisions to be how do I win the World Series immediately. That’s going to do it for our show. Thank you so much for joining us here on the Lock Times podcast for Kobe Pan. I’m Titan Gonzalez. Be sure to give us a follow on Twitter at l_ mirrors. You can follow me at tenny Gonzalez. Colby at cpad11. That’s cpat11. We’re also on blue sky. 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