Mariners Talk with J Trident Podcast: Does Kyle Tucker trade help M's? Will M's trade Luis Castillo?

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I think you vastly overestimate the Mariners saturation of the PNW sports market, aka what they blackout. The two largest metro areas outside Seattle (Portland Metro and the Lower Mainland in BC) either are actively trying to build a stadium to attract a team or root for a different MLB team because they have Rogers Sports Net to watch Hockey. Not to mention both of those cities have significant public money and interest tied up in an entirely different summer sport. The next tier down includes Victoria (same problem as the Lower Mainland), Spokane, the TriCities, Boise, Urban Montana, and Anchorage. Rage City and Spokanistan are military towns with minor league or summer ball teams. The military personnel there root for their home town MLB teams or a team they picked up in basic (Braves/Astros). Boise is culturally connected to Utah and would be in their market once the A's or Rays take the free stadium money sitting around in Salt Lake City. That leaves the Tricities, which is solid M's territory but not a ton of population, and Urban Montana, probably more independent league fans and also small population. That's no where near enough to get to a top ten Market if you include every other teams secondary and tertiary metros. I think Seattle would still be the second smallest market in the division. Do I think there is enough money in Seattle Metro alone to run a $200 million payroll? Yes, absolutely but not with how they currently operate. I don't think more money is going to fix anything.

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Thanks for all the geographic points

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And as for the money the Mariners don't necessarily need the most top free agent but they just need something at least decent and above the levels of Jorge polanco and Adam Frazier and kolton Wong to help but the Mariners aren't even doing the bare minimum in the off season unfortunately

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@@rooftopsports lack of geographic and general knowledge of the PNW outside of King, Pierce, and Snohomish counties is pretty rampant in M's tube. Guys like J and MarinersSUR have some better perspective on it than most. I don't think you're anywhere near as bad as some, to be fair. But also the "Seattle is a top 10 market" meme needs to die because it is demonstrably untrue. Like I said money isn't the problem, it is the half ass way they operate. They don't trade guys on time (Kelenic and now the Starters) and tie up money in areas that should be cheap by design. Spending an extra $50 million inefficiently is not going to do much. Jerry's fascination with "2B with pop" is definitely annoying, especially when you could get more value out of that position with a more widely available cheap skill set.

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Luis Castillo 25M Victor Robles 6M Mitch Garver 12M FOR Yoshi 18M Abreu 1M Refsnyder 3M Narvaez

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