{"id":590382,"date":"2026-02-24T15:37:36","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T15:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/590382\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T15:37:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T15:37:36","slug":"the-reality-facing-seattle-mariners-prospect-michael-arroyo-moving-forward-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/590382\/","title":{"rendered":"The Reality Facing Seattle Mariners Prospect Michael Arroyo Moving Forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The scouting report on Michael Arroyo is as the scouting report has been. He hits well, and the defense is, I would say, not only a question mark, but so far through what I saw last year at spring training, and through what I&#8217;ve seen this year, it looks like a potential liability. I&#8217;m not going to crush a 21-year-old who&#8217;s only barely had a cup of coffee in AA. I&#8217;m not going to crush a 21-year-old and say that he can&#8217;t get any better. He can. Michael Arroyo can improve. But if he&#8217;s going to make a meaningful contribution to this team and to this organization, he&#8217;s going to have to improve defensively. Michael Arroyo&#8217;s bat is always going to be his calling card. But you cannot be a liability in the field. And those are the questions that we have about Michael Arroyo moving forward.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;The scouting report on Michael Arroyo is as the scouting report has been. He hits well, and the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2392],"tags":[5,620,4,619,65,3235],"class_list":{"0":"post-590382","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\/116126354238378046","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590382","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=590382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}