The Seattle Mariners are finalizing a 5-year contract with free agent 1B Josh Naylor, per ESPN\u2019s Jeff Passan. The deal has been confirmed by Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic pending a physical, meaning Seattle has successfully accomplished their publicly stated top priority of the winter. UPDATE: The deal is official, and has been reported as 5 years, $92.5 million, with a full no-trade clause.<\/p>\n
Naylor\u2019s fit with Seattle stretched back to last winter, as the lefty-swinging Canadian was a hot topic of discussion for Seattle to improve their first base position. Instead, Naylor was dealt from the Cleveland Guardians to the Arizona Diamondbacks, before becoming a Mariner just before the 2025 trade deadline and immediately making a huge impact. Naylor spent the back half of the summer cementing himself as a fan and front office favorite, swiping bags and smacking baseballs all over the yard. Now, Naylor will be in Northwest Green for the better part of his career.<\/p>\n
Naylor is just four months removed from his 28th birthday, which likely improved his viability for the M\u2019s towards extending him the longest free agent contract for a position player in the Jerry Dipoto Era. Naylor simply played himself into indispensability. After a .292\/.360\/.447 line with 11 home runs and a 122 wRC+ in 93 games with Arizona, Naylor went from one of the most historically hitter-friendly parks to the sport\u2019s most challenging, and in so doing dropped all the way to a\u2026 .299\/.341\/.490 line, with 9 homers in just 54 games, good for a 137 wRC+ and some of the most important moments of the season.<\/p>\n
When news of the financial details are available, we will update this story, as well as when the team confirms. UPDATE: The deal has been confirmed, at 5\/$92.5m with a full no-trade clause. The story has been updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Seattle Mariners are finalizing a 5-year contract with free agent 1B Josh Naylor, per ESPN\u2019s Jeff Passan.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":437035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2392],"tags":[5,620,4,619,65,45691,40235,3235],"class_list":{"0":"post-437034","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-seattle-mariners","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-mariners","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-seattle","12":"tag-seattle-mariners","13":"tag-seattle-mariners-good-news","14":"tag-seattle-mariners-transactions","15":"tag-seattlemariners"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115569002007947272","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}