Let me give you a little insight, as someone who’s been around the team, who’s someone who’s talked to players, as someone who’s been in the clubhouse. JP Crawford is a leader on this team. I believe he might be the most respected player in that clubhouse. There is a reason why they call him ‘Cap.’ Your leaders do not get moved for 20-year-olds who have 40 games above high A to their name and have zero big league experience. Your team leaders do not get moved for 20-year-olds with 40 games of experience above high A-ball. There is a hierarchy in baseball, and JP Crawford is at the very top of the Mariners clubhouse hierarchy, and Colt Emerson isn’t anywhere close to it. He is going to have to earn his way to the middle of that hierarchy, and then he’s going to have to earn his way to the top of the hierarchy, and it is not going to happen over the course of spring training
