{"id":660723,"date":"2026-04-03T12:25:58","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T12:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/660723\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T12:25:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T12:25:58","slug":"mariners-release-26-year-old-pitcher-following-hectic-stint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/660723\/","title":{"rendered":"Mariners Release 26-Year-Old Pitcher Following Hectic Stint"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Seattle Mariners are built on pitching, which makes it tough to earn playing time as a newcomer to the staff.<\/p>\n

Right-handed pitcher Ryan Loutos found that out the hard way these last five months, as the Mariners claimed him off waivers from the Washington Nationals in November, only to cut bait with him before he ever threw a pitch in the regular season. <\/p>\n

According to the official transactions log and an announcement from the Mariners’ public relations account<\/a> on X, Loutos was placed on unconditional release waivers on Thursday. That followed the right-hander being placed on the seven-day minor-league injured list last week with an undisclosed injury, and his being designated for assignment on Tuesday. <\/p>\n

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Loutos, 26, made his major league debut in 2024 for the St. Louis Cardinals, the culmination of a remarkable rise to the game’s highest level from the Division III ranks, and an especially cool story because he attended Washington University in St. Louis. Then, he quickly learned that staying in the majors is even harder than getting there.<\/p>\n

Loutos was waived and traded from the Cardinals to the Los Angeles Dodgers last April, then waived again and claimed by the Nationals in June. He’s made 15 total major league appearances for his three teams as of Thursday, sporting a 10.14 ERA with 17 earned runs and 22 hits allowed in his 14 1\/3 innings. <\/p>\n

In the same wave of transactions, the Mariners activated shortstop J.P. Crawford from the injured list and optioned infielder Ryan Bliss to Triple-A Tacoma. <\/p>\n

While the Mariners can shift gears to preparing for Friday’s series opener against the division-rival Los Angeles Angels, Loutos has to figure out his next steps at something of a career crossroads.<\/p>\n

More MLB: Freddie Freeman Responds to Dodgers\u2019 Struggles With Thanos Comparison<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Seattle Mariners are built on pitching, which makes it tough to earn playing time as a newcomer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2392],"tags":[5,620,4,619,65,3235],"class_list":{"0":"post-660723","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\/116340769499993526","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660723","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=660723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}