On Seattle Sports’ Brock and Salk this week, they’re letting producer Lyle Goldstein take the reins for a daily Seattle Mariners draft profile segment.
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Goldstein is also half of the Marine Layer podcast that covers the Mariners closely, and he’s had his eye on this MLB Draft for a while, especially since the M’s were lucky in the draft lottery and landed the No. 3 overall pick.
The draft starts with the first round at 3 p.m. Sunday on ESPN and MLB Network. Here’s Goldstein’s first profile, which focuses on Oregon State – and former UW Huskies – shortstop Aiva Arquette.
Seattle Mariners Draft Candidate: Aiva Arquette
The pros
• As a 6-foot-5, 220-pound shortstop, it’s hard not to make comparisons of Arquette to Carlos Correa, Corey Seager and Troy Tulowitzki, who were also big shortstops when they were drafted.
• Arquette hits the ball really hard – his exit velocity got as high as 113 mph this year at OSU. That’ll drop a little in pro ball with a wood bat, but still, the hard hit potential is definitely there.
• He has a chance to be a 20-25 homer guy in the show. He hit 19 in 65 games for Oregon State as a junior in 2025.
Aiva Arquette needed a triple for the cycle.
Instead, he did this!#GoBeavs pic.twitter.com/NME37j2Yc1
— Oregon State Baseball (@BeaverBaseball) April 9, 2025
• Arquette played at UW for three seasons before transferring to OSU for 2025, and he put up a .900 OPS in his final year with the Huskies. That’s notable because Husky Ballpark is 100 feet from the water on Lake Washington with high wind and no third deck to block any of it. So even though that was with a metal bat, it could temper concerns about him hitting in Seattle.
• Arquette’s glove isn’t flashy, but insiders think he’s got a real chance to stick at shortstop. It sounds like he’s solid defender but nothing special in the field.
Top draft prospect Aiva Arquette showing off RANGE for Oregon State 😮💨
(🎥: @ESPN)pic.twitter.com/nwK2s0MM10
— MLB (@MLB) June 17, 2025
The cons
• The concerns seem to be that he has some swing and miss at the plate. He doesn’t have a bad approach, only striking out about 17% of the time this year, but it’s more the actual whiff in his game.
• Arquette isn’t much of a runner/base stealer. He had just seven steals this year.
• He probably wouldn’t go as high as No. 3 in a more talented draft class. He’s not the college bat that Washington’s Dylan Crews (No. 2 overall pick in the 2023 MLB Draft), Texas’ Wyatt Langford (No. 4 in 2023) or Kansas City’s Jac Caglianone (No. 6 in 2024) were in college.
Have a night Aiva Arquette!
His sixth home run of the night puts him 3-for-3 with a triple short of the cycle.#GoBeavs pic.twitter.com/8Y7NcRWsRu
— Oregon State Baseball (@BeaverBaseball) March 26, 2025
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