MLB Insider Calls Out Mariners For LACK Of Offseason Moves.

[@dylanwharton9395]

Mariners fan: Ownership is the main problem. They only care about winning to the extent that it keeps fans in the ballpark for as long as possible. There are payroll restrictions in place, only for the sake of improving the bottom line. It’s self-imposed, not due to a lack of resources. There is no reason they can’t simply add free agents to the current roster, other than they don’t find it profitable to do so. Dipoto isn’t perfect either, he’s done very poorly with the few dollars he’s given each year. I guarantee they trade at least one of Gilbert/Kirby/Miller/Woo in the next two seasons because they will become “too expensive”. This ownership group is an absolute embarrassment to baseball.

[@no_regerts5176]

54%

[@Regdor]

everything said here is correct

[@Dee_Rod]

How about the players? They didn't perform well but nothing is said.

[@dylanwharton9395]

@@Dee_Rod character limit. Couldn’t get to everything.

[@calvinwood7120]

The second Gilbert and Kirby are gone I’m done w this franchise. Truly pathetic my entire life. As someone who pitched and loves pitching I love the idea of going to games w great starters

[@RiloPerro]

As a Mariner fans, thank you for making this video. More people who have a following need to make videos about the classless organization that is the Seattle Mariners.

[@WeBeatMedicare6969]

Nobody cares about Seattle and the Mariners…sorry, but it’s the truth

[@Dee_Rod]

Hold the players accountable for not playing well. It's stolen money.

[@MarkHolly-ou5ut]

Yeah u are right. It hurts cause I enjoy this team. Its very hard.​@WeBeatMedicare6969

[@MarkHolly-ou5ut]

Yeah u are right. It hurts cause I enjoy this team. Its very hard.​@WeBeatMedicare6969

[@MarkHolly-ou5ut]

Yeah u are right. It hurts cause I enjoy this team. Its very hard.​@WeBeatMedicare6969

[@kthmalloy16]

Seattle has good fans but it's clear the ownership could not give a crap about winning and it's all about making money for their owners.

[@BroadwayJoe99]

Seattle has Battered Fan Syndrome - a fanbase so beaten down by teams threatening to move, then doing so*, that many will meekly accept Skinflint Stanton's profit-motivated ownership out of fear of a return to the bad old days of owners threatening to move away if we don't kiss their asses enthusiastically enough.

[@the509s4]

@@BroadwayJoe99 The Mariners will never move. Ever. Its a cash cow for being mediocre.

[@BroadwayJoe99]

@the509s4 I forgot to explain the asterisk - the Seahawks did move to Anaheim, CA for a hot minute, until the NFL forced owner Ken Behring to abandon the move, return the team's equipment to Seattle, and to find a local owner, in this case Paul Allen. Thus the asterisk.

[@hawkveinte]

The $15 million isn’t some fact they have to find a work around for, it is a Choice by ownership. Building 9/10 of a WS contender and refusing to spend the final 1/10 to finish the team is a Choice. That is the definition of Blowing it

[@no_regerts5176]

54%

[@kennymelone1775]

They can do things financially but the ownership is about lining their pockets and not about creating a playoff team

[@benprice2034]

The fact that the ownership group won't pony up to make a run at this when they are stacked at pitching is gut-wrenching and is par for the course when you're a Mariners fan. PLEASE SELL THE TEAM!

[@joshuasorrt8241]

This Organization is a complete and utter disgrace! Stanton and Co are quickly becoming the most hated Seattle ownership team of all time! Zero connection with the fan base and zero obligation to their civil responsibility. Countless lies and false promises year after year! Fans need to boycott this corrupt Ownership team and make them realize this is OUR team as it is theirs

[@joshuasorrt8241]

World Series pitching staff and you still don’t add the offensive pieces needed to bring a Championship home to Seattle! That tells the fans everything they need to know right there

[@aaronsullivan6428]

As a Mariners fan I absolutely agree, it's abysmal that they are wasting all the talent they have on the team. I don't understand why they haven't tried to trade Castillo, dump both Mitchs contracts even if it means giving up Bliss, Locklear or Hancock. Get a good bat for Castillo, sign bregman or Alonso, and call up Ford even though he may not be ready give him an opportunity until June then go after a backup catcher at the deadline. Bring back Turner as well. So many moves they could make to improve, and yet they are sitting in the car while it's running at a green light

[@calvinwood7120]

We can’t dump Mitch and Mitch’s contracts… even if we could, giving up talent to get off that money just puts us in a worse place because then we overpay a different bum to fill his shoes (give up Kelenic to save $ and we sign Mitch Garver or give up Robbie Ray so we can play him for not as long as Haniger is getting paid) Mariners doing inception levels of salary dumping if they dump Haniger

[@benjames4502]

As a MN Twins fan, welcome to the sh*t show. The team could be one of the best in the league, unfortunately the owners cut payroll at every opportunity.

[@meddyven]

Same as Pirates. Scummy management who doesn't care about winning.

[@calvinwood7120]

You have no clue what we deal with… Twins have paid Buxton and signed Correa and overall spend more than the Mariners. We’re also paying 30Mil to Garver and Haniger while declining Polancos option. Twins haven’t had all that great of a farm system and haven’t developed a good arm since Johan Santana

[@thomasramirez718]

I feel bad for Seattle fans, all that pitching talent and they don’t take advantage and sign or trade for some good hitters. Dipoto Sucks, he needs to go and ownership is cheap as EFFFF.

[@potluck5896]

As a Mariners fan, we are also calling them out.

[@HarryTeasley]

John Stanton rivals Arte Moreno as the worst owner. The window is here, has been here, and the promised spending hasn’t happened. The window will close, no one will resign with the club.

[@spacerangerangel]

At least Arte spends. Stupidly, sure but he does spend.

[@benjames4502]

The Pohlad's, they tried to contract the Twins at one point.

[@T_K7]

Pirates, Marlins, & Rays fans would still swap owners with us in a heartbeat lmao (A's fans too if their owner didn't abandon them first)

[@HarryTeasley]

@@T_K7 A's, fair point. Marlins have 2 WS wins, so no. Pirates, I don't think they've developed to a position like this, to be on the brink, and then do... nothing. They behave like Nutting is poorer than he is, but has he promised what Stanton promised during the rebuild?

[@T_K7]

@@HarryTeasley _"Marlins have 2 WS wins"_ from over 20 years ago, none of which has to do with their current ownership. You might as well write to Hiroshi Yamauchi to increase Mariners' payroll today. _"Pirates, I don't think they've developed to a position like this"_ Then you weren't watching them in the 2010's, it was strikingly similar to the Mariners now (just with more wildcard appearances on an even tighter budget). Nutting rode similar lowball "promises" as Stanton to keep the fanbase duped until the window was just about shut. The difference is that, unlike the Mariners, the Pirates routinely work with a bottom-6 payroll. In 18 years of ownership, Nutting's Pirates have fielded just one $100M team ($100.6M in 2017). Under Stanton, the Mariners have had a bottom-6 payroll one time (2021) and otherwise were never even close to that cheap, with $100M+ teams being the norm. Stanton doesn't even try to compete with the big boys, but Nutting makes him look like a Steinbrenner by comparison. They have the same reported net worth, by the way.

[@jimjimhuerta]

I’m convinced as long as John is the owner, he won’t actually care about winning. Only cares about being rich.

[@Haucksta]

Please make more videos like this about the Mariners. These acts of selfishness from this terrible ownership group needs to be exposed further because it affects everyone associated with Mariner baseball from the fans and surrounding community, straight to the entire roster of players that want to win games.

[@the509s4]

I am a life long Mariner fan since 1984. This writer is correct. You shouldnt trade from your strength when your strength is THAT GOOD. They are not that deep if one of these guys in the rotation goes down. For a team to have such an opportunity to win now, and not commit to even get into the top 10 in payroll with the market we have here is UTTER INSANITY. They are fixed on trying to be the freakin Tampa Bay Rays and the fans here are sick of it.

[@ryanfromthecharley3800]

Jays fan here. We are dealing with the same thing. MLB is about tv ratings and the owners are about profit sharing which comes from good broadcast deals which comes from good tv ratings.

[@calvinwood7120]

They’re 54% in

[@TouchingBasesPod]

Mariners don't have TOO MUCH of a rotation, they have those 5 and that's it. They SHOULDNT trade anyone. Stanton and Larson should stop being shit owners and actually give the city what it has waited for over 40 years now. Who ever they trade Castillo for, is a risk to hurt the team even more because nobody can hit in Seattle. Two 105wRC+ bats is a downgrade when you lose a 3.45 ERA arm. City Counsel should be squeezing stanton because fans a pissed. Bregman can come to Seattle, I don't care anymore.

[@SamSamSamJ]

I just hope that 5 years from now we don't look back and say damn, if only they had an offense to go with the pitching they had.

[@T_K7]

The opposite of Griffey's Mariners. "If only we had pitching to go with all of these bats" *_trades Lowe & Varitek for Heathcliff Slocumb_*

[@joshuasorrt8241]

We’ve been dealing with this Ownership group for over 20+ years!

[@calvinwood7120]

Saying it the past cuppa years already *leads league in Ks*

[@heyjim52]

No money means coming up short in the standings which will turn into Cal Raleigh wanting out of Seattle and possibly another player.

[@TouchingBasesPod]

Side note, I have seen 16 (yes I'm counting) posts wishing Stanton to pass away. That's how furious fans are. It's wild.

[@bronsonbamnallen1633]

No, they do not HAVE to get Castillo off the books. Ownership makes plenty of money off of us fans. They can spend instead of being chickenshit pricks. This whole video is BS.

[@Adam-tp6ch]

I just love how you're a Toronto fan yet have Vladdy shipping out on the first bus to every other single team in baseball.

[@Michael-uu7zq]

Thanks to bring attention to this Jim

[@calvinwood7120]

Other teams trying to improve their roster: trade prospects for proven players that plug into your lineup/rotation Mariners trying to improve their roster: Were gonna have to get rid of 2-3 of our core contributors in order to fill the 1-2 positions that need filling with the $15 mil we have in salary (geno and kelenic last year) but we have a few guys making arb $ so we’re gonna have to find about $5 mil to reduce our payroll

[@seizethecarp_]

Completely disagree. As good as the 1-5 is for the Ms, the drop-off after that is huge. You trade Castillo you are one injury away from making your biggest strength a weakness because a lack of depth. Keep the pitching intact and trade for players that you can for prospects. Mariners have one of, if not THE best farm system in baseball. C'mon.

[@thomasmills9366]

It’s rough out here being a Mariners fan the past few years..!

[@calvinwood7120]

This is the best it’s been since 2001 and we’re still complaining

[@alfredohsauce]

Chickenshlt ownership group led by Stanton. Stanton was a part of the group that wouldn’t get Lou one more player. Until Stanton is gone, mariners aren’t doing anything of value.

[@cesarvigil9563]

I like the process but will Luis wanna waive his no trade if so then they can defer money like the Dodgers but sadly the mariners will not get it done at the end of the day ownership is killing the team in the name of profit so sad

[@Zach-ls1if]

Maybe there’s a Luigi in Seattle

[@tgaspar29]

Being a mariners fan in a family of Dodger fans and having to hear them give u shit especially because they are making moves ! It fuckn hurts man it hurts 😞😞😞

[@swampdweller5]

Totally agree. I just don't want Bregman.

[@seizethecarp_]

I wonder if Seattle is waiting in the wings to see if Toronto can re-sign Vladdy by ST. If they don't, Seattle might go all in even for the 1 year.

[@T_K7]

Not Dipoto's style unfortunately (hence why ownership keeps him around). Don't expect him to do something like that unless his seat is burning hot.

[@KeithSitty]

As much as I want to believe it, I don't think I see as many teams willing to take on his contract. With the no-trade they are definitely going to have to sweeten the pot, and Boston reportedly already balked at giving anything without us taking back salary. There is no guarantee of money being re-deployed, and the Mariners have already shown that they don't always re-deploy resources, and the market all around is thinning. If you are talking flat salary dump and getting nothing but a lottery ticket back, maybe, but you can't sell the clubhouse or fanbase on that. Burnes signing with someone not on the board by most helps, but you can't trade him without getting a legitimate piece back because there are no guarantees someone signs with those resources.

[@kurtwendler2067]

I have been a Mariner fan since I moved here in 1980 and they should sell the team if they do not want to be competitive. Last year they gave away the playoffs with salary dumps is all we got.

[@mitchellhopkins9331]

Mariners drafted Christian Encarnacion-Strand years ago.

[@SwaguPepe7]

Thank you! Please keep making videos about our awful owner. The team has 5 good young cheap starters, Julio in CF, Cal at C. Literally a corner bat or two away from a potentially great team for the last 3 years. Brutal

[@meddyven]

Jerry DiPoto has been a complete flat line as a GM, both in Anaheim and Seattle. Trade Castillio, maybe go get Bregman, and or Alonso. Marunwrs fans hace waited 48 years just to get to the WS, necer mind win one. It's tine to put all their chips in. Management can stretch the budget $15/$20 mil more, to accomplish it. The fans would support it, if they did. But DiPoto is not a gambler. He's a atatus quo fuy, and those guys NEVER win World Series.

[@1TightMinute]

Imagine if they traded woo or miller? What kind of hall do you think those guys are worth.

[@JimmyK-r2u]

More Jays. Good, or more likely bad. Great show, brother.

[@WeBeatMedicare6969]

Seattle make a run for Vladdy lol

[@AndrewFisher-c7p]

Trade for yandy or mouncastle

[@collectasaurusrex1344]

I’m from Boston so the Sox are my second team. I’ve seen a good amount of Casas and he’s not it.

[@ChristianWatkins-qb4pm]

I disagree, I think you trade curby for westburg and mountcastle and a #4, 5 pitcher. Reason is simple, he has highest value and his agent is not going to extend him. And than you extend Gilbert and bring up next wave of pitchers...thoughts?

[@cosmoid]

The Seattle Mariners brought in more revenue in 2023 than the New York Mets. If they wanted to be WS contenders, they would be WS contenders.

[@mr.t1941]

There's about 12 other teams that have done very little to add to there roster; they have cheap, bad, could care less about improving? No, they just have a way of going after players they have a chance to bring in and can afford. Are they cheap ? Only IF you look at how much they spend compared to high spending teams. Yet, depending on their revenue- they work with a budget. In reality, a small amount of complainers make it look like the fans are fed up.

[@Methoes123]

Cease, Castillo, and Flaherty are not worth the cost! O's should use: Kjerstad and Bradfield and trade with Miami for Alcantara, then trade with the Pirates Mayo for J.Jones and sign Mad Max for 1yr.

[@charlescampbell6854]

You can't sign people if they don't want to go there

[@eddisonkolnmeier-schneedeu6763]

The NYY can send Stroman and few prospects to Seattle for Castillo. But, I think, the Yanks are behind Roki Sasaki.

[@ceeg-ve2xu]

Nothing to do with Dipoto. 100% on ownership. Jerry can only work within the lines he's given unfortunately

[@boone29flip]

100% Agree

[@jaythegammer3603]

Luis Castillo for Brandon marsh in Philly

[@stevemammen5595]

One hitter won't carry the offense for Castillo.

[@Dee_Rod]

this is fair but let's hold the players to account for not playing to their contracts. JRod didint play well. Neither did the catcher; he was one of the worst players all season. And he has another yr on contract. other players didn't perform well too. The front office signed them to play well and they didn't. Now the FO has to fix what the players broke.

[@richardmannon5536]

From the beginning of time Seattle ownership uses the same tatics. We take it hook line and sinker. Boycot them. They are the only team in all of professional sports. Including women sports. That HAVE NOT WENT TO A CHAMPIONSHIP OR WON ONE. I am 75 years old since 1976 I have praid before I die. That they give us a Glimmer of hope. Lets clown Edger Martinez. Better yet put him in there. At least he did strike out.

[@richardmannon5536]

He didnot strike out.

[@PSOpwnage]

Greed limits competition

[@gregthegroove]

As a Cubs fan I’ve been sitting there waitingggggggg and waitingggggggggg for SEA to actually let some of those pitchers go for christsakes

[@AndrewFisher-c7p]

Or trade for Luis arize

[@benjames4502]

Seattle lacks depth in their minor league system in regards to pitching, why the Mariners want a pitching prospect back as part of a Castillo trade.

[@JohnSteele-ov1pc]

those pitchers are overrated (and they should sell high imo), the Home/Away splits for most of them are gnarly

[@FrodohTBaggins]

Other than Nico, cubs have nothing to even acquire a Seattle pitcher

[@BroadwayJoe99]

Just offer Skinflint Stanton a $100 Subway gift card, and he'll probably give you half of the forty-man roster.

[@djl9919]

you shot down my proposals for trading for Pablo Lopez & Jake Burger. I like your proposal of trading Bo for Castillo.

[@samz5559]

I think the mariners just want what they gave up for Castillo

[@BlitzEditsBaseball]

To all you mariners fans At least you spent more than the marlins

[@JoeSoto-e6i]

Why isn't this bigger news, criminally wasting that starting rotation with all that team control for a few more years, Red Sox offered casas and yoshida for Castillo and they said no?😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@joshuasorrt8241]

Yep!! Only want to dump Castillo’s salary and bring Yoshida on won’t due that. They don’t give a damn about Cases, they just want to salary dump like they did with Geno and Ray.

[@johngilbert7141]

Baltimore is the.trade..i don't know.what they waiting for.

[@AdamDenney-u3c]

Lol I've laughed when all these insider say were going to sign Pete Alonso there wasting there time that's not how they operate if get lucky we will send a good package to the padres for luis arez to play first.

[@wickedkiller6906]

Reds should trade for Castio.

[@Zachariah15]

The mariners feel like that one fantasy owner who has all the good pitching but is to scared to trade any of it for some hitting.

[@T_K7]

We've been saying that Jerry Dipoto runs the team like it's fantasy baseball for years lol

[@joebrown1534]

Hey what's new. Same shit from mariners. Been fan from oregon since mariners open up. Love new coach loved him when he was are great catcher. But him an all rest stars are mariners . Standing behind the rich people who really don't give a shit enough to win. That a big reason why we have never won a world series. So as long as fans show up an buy tickets no reason for them to change . It's like the fans up there don't want champions they want place to dump business as hit money making rich get richer. Please do what I did stop going. If no one showed up opening day things would change

[@sni6941]

I am a little disagree. I would like them to hang on Castillo, rather trade one of Woo or Miller. 1. You only need 3 top pitcher to win in post season 2. Castillo is the only veteran in the SP group, you need experience to win in post season 3. Trading Castillo gets you money to overpay for another aging star 4. Woo or Miller can get you a top bat with control and less money 5. Trade Castillo next year will get you more return with only two years left if you like 6. You might be able to attach some salary by trading Woo or Miller 7. You need leader in the club house

[@T_K7]

I'm just hoping that Castillo holds on long enough to have value when the no-trade clause expires and Jerry gets free reign to dump him anywhere. It's the same setup as Robbie Ray.

[@James-y1i7p]

Mariners should look into trading Haniger and Garver to the Yankees for LeMahieu and Stroman. Then Castillo can be traded to the Dodgers for Muncy and M. Rojas. 1B, 2B, 3B, and Castillo's spot in the rotation are then filled, and the M's even save a little money in '25, but they may still need to find a back-up catcher.

[@T_K7]

Needing a backup catcher is far preferable to needing an entire infield. Unfortunately, Jerry & Johnny won't do this because there's money spent on LeMahieu (and likely Stroman) in '26 whereas the two Mitches will be off of the books. That thinking is the whole reason we have Haniger in the first place (so that we wouldn't have to pay Robbie Ray in '26).

[@luismota3066]

FUCuuuu????? Mincy

[@kale1305]

You want Luis Castillo for yourself! Don't think I don't see through you and the reason you made this video😂

[@frednichols7996]

Are the Seattle Mariners like the Dallas Cowboys? They’re not gonna make any moves to free agency and they’re gonna be laughing stock and the bottom of the barrel of the major-league baseball this upcoming season

[@stevedayton5419]

Its not ideal that seattle run it back but they werent that far from the playoffs and in their minds minimal upgrades will keep them in contention with this pitching staff. They arent going to trade castillo for dog shit or take a bunch of money back.

[@wojownikzczarnabandana298]

Weak team

[@virgilgreen3108]

Insight

[@thomasduncan8173]

Haha, can't dump him to a LOSER franchise...um, hate to break it to you, but he's on right now

[@PrincessYuki77]

Boston tried to throw an outfielder the Mariners way when the Mariners are set on outfielders and really need infielders. The MLB insider should just shut up. Boston blew it.

[@tomdrewenskus8167]

Luis Castillo can nix any trade this year. So, good luck trading him anywhere. Stop talking about Vlad Jr, as he is not worth it when you can just sign Justin Turner. How do not know the M’s most pressing need is a 3B? Not impressed with this channel.

[@golfmaniac007]

Sorry but Vlad is batting .186 3 hits 1 RBI 1 run in 6 postseason games. Talk about overrated in helping a team. Vlad is not worth the money.

[@mikekniaziuk7]

Trade Castillo, brash to the Red Sox for Dwight Evan’s out of retirement

[@playlist42010]

Pete Alonso to the diamondbacks confirmed

[@jtrades2134]

We have a 1st baseman

[@playlist42010]

@ I see Naylor as a replacement for Joc with the versatility of moving him to 1st. Look back at last year when Walker went down they scrambled for Bell. If they could convince Alonso on a short term deal. Two years with an opt out. He could pump up his numbers in a hitter friendly park. Skip the Vladdy free agent year. And be the best 1st baseman on the market at 32-33. As a Diamondback fan I want to see if Luvollo is responsible for the infield defensive metrics or Perezchica. If Alonso goes to the Diamondbacks. Improve defensively and hits for power. Then it’s luvollos system. Alonso to the Diamondbacks makes sense. Offensively they would be on paper the same offense as 2024. You would have Gurriel and Naylor sharing the DH Role. Essentially Joc and Gruchik. With sub versatility and allowing their young core at bats.

[@Pos31d0n]

Seattle has money….plenty of it. They are sitting at 35% payroll to revenue. It’s obvious why you may want him traded

[@weirdbeard1980]

It ain't dipoto who's blowing it, it's the ownership

[@calvinwood7120]

4:02 the Mariners absolutely CAN spend money, one of the most profitable franchises in the league w strong attendance… they simply refuse to invest in the product. AAAA Organization