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10 Moves to Fix the Mariners | 2026-27 Offseason PreviewLink- https://youtu.be/NODLsJr63QwThe 2026 Mariners went 76-86 a...
10/16/2026

10 Moves to Fix the Mariners | 2026-27 Offseason Preview

Link- https://youtu.be/NODLsJr63Qw

The 2026 Mariners went 76-86 and finished with one of the worst defenses in baseball. Here’s my 10-move plan to fix it before Opening Day 2027.

We go through who’s under contract and what they cost, the arbitration class, the prospects who matter (Lazaro Montes, Michael Arroyo and Ryan Sloan), and the free agent market. Then the plan: let J.P. Crawford go, sign Seiya Suzuki to play left, add Mauricio Dubón, Carson Kelly and Gregory Soto, extend Logan Gilbert, and trade George Kirby to Texas for Josh Jung and Chase Silseth. We finish with payroll after the moves, the new defense, both Opening Day lineups (vs. righties and vs. lefties), the rotation and bullpen, and how many wins this team really is.

Do you make the Kirby trade? Tell me in the comments.

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10/14/2026

If Portland gets an MLB team, their stadium would be placed so there is a potential for splash hits, similar to in SF @ Pittsburgh.

The stadium design will include elements from the Tilikum Crossing, PDX, and other local inspiration.

10/14/2026

Portland Diamond Project founder Craig Cheek walks through their vision for Zidell Yards, after looking at 17 different locations 🤩

10/13/2026

Oracle Park has McCovey Cove. PNC Park has the Allegheny River and the Clemente Bridge. Petco Park turned a neighborhood of warehouses into one of the best downtowns in baseball.
Portland could have all three.

I went down to Zidell Yards on the South Waterfront, where the Portland Diamond Project wants to build an MLB ballpark. It’s 33 acres on the Willamette with the skyline, the bridges and Mt. Hood in view, and Tilikum Crossing right next door, a bridge that’s never had a car on it.

Full tour with PDP founder Craig Cheek is up now on YouTube. Link in bio.

Want MLB in Portland? Sign the petition at portlanddiamondproject.com

Portland Diamond Project

10/13/2026

Touring the Future Site of MLB in Portland | With PDP Founder Craig Cheek

Link- https://youtu.be/gj9MtumETE4

This is where Portland wants to put a Major League ballpark.

I went down to Zidell Yards on Portland’s South Waterfront with Craig Cheek, the founder of the Portland Diamond Project. He’s been working to bring MLB to Portland since 2017. It’s about 33 acres of open riverfront between Tilikum Crossing and the Ross Island Bridge, with downtown a few minutes north and Mt. Hood off in the distance on a clear day.

We walked the site and talked about everything: where home plate would go, the translucent retractable roof, the restaurants, shops and housing planned around the ballpark, the $800 million the state approved (paid back by players’ and team staff’s income taxes), and what Portland needs to land one of the next two expansion teams.

I also get into why a park on the Willamette belongs in the same conversation as Oracle Park, PNC Park and Petco Park, three of the best settings in baseball.

If you want MLB in Portland, sign the PDP petition: https://portlanddiamondproject.com

10/11/2026

Four hits. Two homers. A grand slam off Brayan Bello. Six RBIs against the Red Sox in Game 1 of the Wild Card.

No Yankee had ever put up four hits and six RBIs in the same playoff game. Ben Rice is the first.

And the guy hit one home run in his entire college career. Thirty games at Dartmouth, COVID took the rest, and the Yankees grabbed him in the 12th round for $125,000. This year he hit 41.

Full story is up on The Couch GM YouTube, link in bio.

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10/02/2026

Before he was the best receiver in the NFL, Jaxon Smith-Njigba was a kid at Rockwall High School, just east of Dallas.

As a senior in 2019 he caught 35 touchdown passes. He became the first Rockwall player ever named Gatorade Texas Player of the Year, and he took Rockwall to the state semifinals for the first time since 1967.

Then he got to Ohio State and caught 10 passes as a freshman. For 49 yards. Total. That’s because the room already had Garrett Wilson and Chris Olave, who’d go 10th and 11th in the 2022 draft.

So as a sophomore, the third receiver in that room went out and led it: 95 catches and 1,606 yards, both Ohio State single-season records.

Then came the 2022 Rose Bowl. Wilson and Olave opted out, and Ohio State was down 35-21 at halftime. JSN finished with 15 catches, 347 yards and three touchdowns, the most receiving yards in any FBS bowl game ever. Buckeyes win 48-45.

A hamstring injury cost him almost all of 2022, and he went into the draft with one real season on tape. He said he wanted to be a top 5 pick. He went 20th to Seattle, still the first receiver off the board.

And who was already in Seattle? DK Metcalf and Tyler Lockett.

Third receiver in the room. Again.

Full JSN story is on YouTube now. Link in bio.

10/02/2026

Dan Wilson’s whole philosophy was a player-led clubhouse. His words: “I felt that the teams that I was a part of that were player-led, those were the teams that were the most fun and the most successful.”

So he leaned on Cal Raleigh as the unofficial captain. In 2025, with Cal hitting 60 home runs, it worked great. Adam Jude’s read is the line I keep coming back to, that Raleigh’s season “overshadowed and perhaps even preempted many clubhouse issues, big and small.”

Then Cal opened this year in a hole he couldn’t climb out of, went on the injured list, and was gone for weeks. The leadership structure went with him, because there was no structure. There was a guy.

And the other half of that leadership spent the summer somewhere else. August 6th, the day after an 11-0 loss to Detroit, the Mariners announced Julio would be DJing the alumni home run derby. His defense that year went from plus 11 outs above average to minus 2.

Ryan Divish in September, watching Julio make a genuinely hard catch on a Mike Trout line drive: “He didn’t do his ‘No Fly Zone’ celebration and his excitement seemed muted. Such is life when you are playing out the string.”

Playing out the string. That’s the beat writer who watches every game, describing the face of the franchise.

Then look who stood up. Cal Raleigh. In the worst year of his life, at a podium, talking about the front office: “It’s not their fault. It’s our fault.”

No, Cal. It’s their fault.

Your best player, in the worst season of his career, volunteered to be the human shield for a front office that said nothing about itself. Three weeks later he got there on his own, and said it was the staff, the front office, the players, top to bottom. Then two days after that he was in the same room saying he felt responsible for his manager losing his job.

A player-led clubhouse only works if you give the player something to lead with. They gave him a 60-homer season and then nothing.

Full breakdown on YouTube. Link in bio.

10/02/2026

Scott Hunter and amateur scouting have been excellent. Five Mariners on the Baseball America Top 100. C**t Emerson projects as a top ten prospect in all of baseball. Lazaro Montes put up ten home runs and a 13.3 percent walk rate in August. Power and plate discipline in the same hitter, which is the hardest thing to develop.

That machine is one of the best in the sport.

Then they get to Seattle.

Julio Rodríguez is 25 years old with 95th percentile bat speed. A top five physical gift in this game. He also has a 13th percentile squared-up rate and chases 39 percent of pitches outside the strike zone. League average is 26.

That’s the whole thing right there. The minor league system takes teenagers and builds them into disciplined hitters who control the zone. They arrive at T-Mobile Park and turn into free swingers.

The farm builds them. The big league environment breaks them.

And when the Mariners finally admitted that in July, they fired Bobby Magallanes. The assistant hitting coach. Not Kevin Seitzer, the hitting coach. Not Edgar Martinez, the Senior Director of Hitting Strategy. The most junior guy in the room.

That call was Jerry Dipoto’s alone. Adam Jude reported that Dan Wilson tried to talk him out of it and Dipoto did it anyway. Jude also reported the relationship between Wilson and Dipoto soured from that moment and never recovered.

So the last thing this front office did about a historically bad offense was overrule its own manager, fire the most junior coach in the building, and break the one working relationship at the top of it.

Two months later Wilson was gone.

Full breakdown on YouTube. Link in bio.

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