{"id":558370,"date":"2026-02-06T19:53:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T19:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/558370\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T19:53:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T19:53:12","slug":"why-cant-j-p-crawford-move-off-shortstop-for-seattle-mariners-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/558370\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Can&#8217;t J.P. Crawford Move Off Shortstop For Seattle Mariners in 2026?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let me give you a little insight, as someone who&#8217;s been around the team, who&#8217;s someone who&#8217;s talked to players, as someone who&#8217;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 &#8216;Cap.&#8217; 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&#8217;t anywhere close to it. He is going to have to earn his way to the middle of that hierarchy, and then he&#8217;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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Let me give you a little insight, as someone who&#8217;s been around the team, who&#8217;s someone who&#8217;s talked&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":558371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2392],"tags":[5,620,4,619,65,3235],"class_list":{"0":"post-558370","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-seattlemariners"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116025439269121060","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558370","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=558370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}