Seattle Mariners 2019 Schedule

Table of Content

• Game Recap: Verlander and the Astros Close Out a Dominant Sweep of the Mariners, 3-1
• Is Seattle closing the gap with Houston?
• Seattle Mariners--Mitch Haniger--2019 Pocket Schedule--Emerald Queen Casino
• SEATTLE MARINERS 2019 BASEBALL SCHEDULE MAGNET SGA
• Narvaez hits walk-off HR in 10th, M’s beat White Sox
• Mariners 9, Rays 3: Honestly, saw this one coming

McCoy was one of only two Mariners prospects to enjoy a 20/20 season, bashing 21 homers and swiping 22 bases -- both career highs. The .805 OPS, 63 RBIs and 23 doubles for Tacoma were also personal bests. McCoy, who made some of the more impressive defensive plays in the system, mostly stayed at shortstop and committed just six errors in nearly 1,000 total chances at the position.

In his first year stateside, Gonzalez bashed his way out of Rookie ball and fit right in playing in the Cal League at 18 years old. The club’s third-ranked prospect hit .286 with a .789 OPS over the final 32 games of the season with Modesto. There's more to the 20-year-old’s game than just his blazing speed, which gets a 70-grade from MLB Pipeline. In addition to leading the organization with 55 steals, Clase collected 46 extra-base hits, including 13 that left the yard, while batting .267 with an .836 OPS in his first full season for Modesto. The Mariners dealt a pair of talented shortstop prospects to the Reds in the Luis Castillo deal, but the 27-year-old McCoy earned this nod regardless with an excellent first season in the Seattle system.

Game Recap: Verlander and the Astros Close Out a Dominant Sweep of the Mariners, 3-1

The Mariners’ No. 20 prospect led the organization with 27 homers, 114 RBIs and 100 runs scored between Modesto and Everett. Take the 28-year-old Correa, for instance, whose deal I’ve seen frequently compared to Canó’s. I will wait, but please, visit Robinson Canó’s Baseball Reference or FanGraphs page and look at his age-28 thru age-34 seasons.

A 2019 Seattle Mariners schedule with dates for every regular season game played, opponents faced, a final score, and a cumulative record for the 2019 season. Data from the 2019 Seattle Mariners schedule includes home and road winning percentages, monthly win-loss data, team versus team totals, and score related splits. The club’s No. 24 prospect may be able to progress as a starter going forward, but he sparkled in 29 relief appearances between Everett and Modesto in 2022 after spending nearly six weeks on the injured list.

Is Seattle closing the gap with Houston?

The 31-year-old at-signing 2B played five seasons in Seattle, outperforming his contract on a $/WAR basis and then getting traded alongside RHP Edwin Díaz for a package that has helped Seattle build a contender directly and indirectly. Notably, both teams paying the bulk of Canó’s contract made the playoffs last year, and were competitive the year before, despite this seemingly unfathomable albatross. Lastly, having a cheap roster only is as “valuable” as a team is willing to take advantage of those low costs in some places to allocate funds and improve in others. Atlanta has managed to keep their nose ahead of the rest of the NL East for several years, in large part due to expert development, staggeringly low-cost extensions signed for several of their stars, a geographical advantage over many clubs, and, it must be noted, a significant cheating scandal of their own. But their advantages are being tested by the Mets and reigning NL pennant winners Philadelphia Phillies, who have, somewhat like the Texas Rangers, decided the best pathway to relevance is signing stars to beef up the big league club and allowing them to give their farm system time to develop. Let me make this point abundantly clear, if there were a clear, cheap pathway to improving the roster at this stage, I would have no issue with Seattle pursuing it.

So if the Mariners have World Series hopes of their own in 2023, they need to find a way past the Astros. The Mariners don’t have a deep well of southpaw prospects, especially after trading Adam Macko this offseason, but 35-year-old Milone showed there's still something left in the tank. He pitched to a 2.68 ERA with 38 punchouts in 40 ⅓ innings over 11 Triple-A outings while holding opposing batters to a .208 average. He was recalled to the Majors for seven appearances in June and July, then was released as he missed all of August with a cervical muscle strain. Milone re-signed with the club after he got healthy and finished the year in Tacoma.

Seattle Mariners--Mitch Haniger--2019 Pocket Schedule--Emerald Queen Casino

And to be honest, they have a pretty tough team to contend with there in Houston – and an improved Texas team, as well. If there’s one thing we know about Jerry Dipoto, even though I might think that they’re close to being ready for the season, he probably disagrees and will likely make another couple of trades. I think Wong (as a left-handed hitter) addresses some of the issues with a lack of balance… Teoscar Hernández, we’ve talked about him, I’m a big fan of his. I think he will really address some of the issues they had maybe about being able to hit the big home runs and drive in runs against really good pitching. There's a stacked group of right-handed starters in the Mariners system.

Dipoto mentioned in a discussion at the winter meetings that Seattle is near the top of the league in financial commitments. Though he referenced the club being 2nd in committed payroll in 2026 and high up in the intervening seasons as well, they have obviously fallen significantly in the past week and a half as free agents have signed. ” section reflects that Dipoto is not wrong; the committed money is still up there for Seattle, with their “future commitments” in 2024 ranking 10th, followed by 8th in 2025 and 7th in 2026. You may also note in that chart that a few teams have $0 committed for some or all of those seasons, and (though I wouldn’t put too much stock into this) the bottom 12 teams in 2026 commitments feature 11 clubs who missed the playoffs in 2022. Those statements came in late October, at the club’s end-of-season news conference. Much of the early stages of the winter from a club coverage perspective were spent parsing these words, as to whether the club would be willing to sign a player that might displace J.P.

Adding that player to this Mariners team is how they take the next step from good to great, as one disgruntled 710 AM host put it recently. Bogaerts similarly offered a pathway to massive stability, as well as few of the associations that might have been a dealbreaker with regards to Correa and his involvement with the Trash Can Astros. Instead Seattle returned their lineup to a similar state as the start of 2022, with Teoscar in place of Haniger and Kolten Wong in place of Adam Frazier, a pair of upgrades Steamer projects to be around a one-WAR boost to the club, though the loss of Jesse Winker leaves them with a more tenuous lineup. It’s not a bad lineup necessarily, but it is risky, making the previous moves and their present inaction all the more surprising.

Much like the earlier discussion on Acuña and Albies’ shockingly cheap extensions setting a baseline that’s been built up from each year, so too goes free agency. The length is a new appreciation for shenanigans with the luxury tax rules by clubs willing to threaten that threshold in the $220 million range. The luxury tax calculation averages the cost of a deal over its entirety of guarantees for a team. Players in pre-arbitration and arbitration are only counted for the current year, while those on extensions or free agent contracts, as well as those with signing bonuses have their pay calculated by mean cost when appraising the luxury tax. In essence, Correa’s 13-year, $350 million deal could just as easily be 10/$350m, but that would cost San Francisco $35 million each year on their luxury tax calculation. Instead, they save $8-9 million of space between themselves and the tax, which provides them flexibility every year of the contract to improve further without incurring penalties.

We’ll start with the topic of the past week and a half, which we also discussed in depth on the Lookout Landing podcast. If you listened, this article covers a decent amount of similar ground. Ichiro Suzuki played his final MLB game in the second game of the season.

Instead, they have opted out, and I want to go in depth on several of the reasons why this is outlandishly risky behavior by an organization in such a spectacular position to thrive. Seattle had primed themselves specifically for signing an impact middle infielder, trading away their two best prospects Noelvi Marte and Edwin Arroyo in a deal to acquire RHP Luis Castillo that I’d do again in a heartbeat. However, Seattle’s middle infield depth organizationally is now among the worst in MLB. Few teams are more well-situated to sign a star to fill one of their glaring holes given their low payroll, exciting, young, on-the-heels-of-a-playoff-berth roster, and organizational need for several years of development to find their own internal solution. Instead, Seattle did not, by all accounts and their own attitude, give the idea more than a passing glance’s worth of effort.

Rizzo has repeated levels twice in the past four seasons -- he spent 2018 and 2019 in Modesto, a High-A club at the time -- and is currently a free agent. So here we are, with a club that I am overwhelmingly excited about and yet exceedingly frustrated with. I do not wish to rob anyone of their well-earned excitement for the coming season, which should be an exciting one.