The Seattle Mariners are starting to get their first look at members of their 2025 draft class at the professional level.
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Five of Seattle’s selections from this year’s draft recently made their debuts at the minor league level – all with the Single-A Modesto Nuts – including first-round compensatory pick Luke Stevenson and second-round pick Nick Becker. Another is set to debut for the Nuts’ Thursday night.
The group of debuting players doesn’t include No. 3 overall pick Kade Anderson. Anderson, who pitched 119 innings during the college season at LSU, has been shut down for the rest of the year. Seattle also drafted several more college pitchers who may not see pro action this summer.
Here’s a look at what the six 2025 draftees on Modesto’s roster have done thus far.
• Stevenson, a left-handed hitting catcher, has played the most out of the group and was one of just two to appear in more than one game entering Thursday. The North Carolina product is off to a solid start, going 6 for 25 with two doubles, six RBIs and eight walks to nine strikeouts over seven games. The 21-year-old Stevenson picked up two hits in each of his first two games and had a two-hit, three-RBI performance Tuesday night.
• Becker, a right-handed hitting shortstop, is 1 for 9 with an RBI, a stolen base in four strikeouts in his first two pro games. He picked up an RBI single in his debut Tuesday night. The 18 year old is the lone high school draftee to debut from Seattle’s 2025 draft class.
• Outfielder Korbyn Dickerson, a 21-year-old right-handed bat, made an impressive debut Tuesday night, going 2 for 4 with a double, an RBI, two runs scored and a walk. The fifth-round pick also showed off his glovework with a sliding grab in center field. He’s 3 for 7 over his first two pro games.
• Right-hander Casey Hintz, a 16th-round pick out of Arizona, has pitched 1 1/3 scoreless innings while striking out one batter and walking two. The 21 year old recorded the final out of Modesto’s game last Thursday to earn his first save as a pro.
• Right-hander Isaac Lyon, a 10th-round pick out of Grand Canyon, struck out two and allowed one run on two hits and one walk over two innings in his debut Wednesday night.
• Right-hander Colton Shaw, a seventh-round pick out of Yale, is slated make his debut Thursday night as Modesto’s starter against Rancho Cucamonga.
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