Beneath is an evaluation of the prospects within the farm system of the Seattle Mariners. Scouting reviews had been compiled with info supplied by business sources in addition to my very own observations. That is the fourth 12 months we’re delineating between two anticipated reduction roles, the abbreviations for which you’ll see within the “place” column beneath: MIRP for multi-inning reduction pitchers, and SIRP for single-inning reduction pitchers. The ETAs listed typically correspond to the 12 months a participant must be added to the 40-man roster to keep away from being made eligible for the Rule 5 draft. Guide changes are made the place they appear applicable, however we use that as a rule of thumb.
A fast overview of what FV (Future Worth) means may be discovered right here. A a lot deeper overview may be discovered right here.
The entire ranked prospects beneath additionally seem on The Board, a useful resource the positioning presents that includes sortable scouting info for each group. It has extra particulars (and up to date TrackMan knowledge from varied sources) than this text and integrates each group’s listing so readers can evaluate prospects throughout farm programs. It may be discovered right here.
Different Prospects of Be aware
Grouped by kind and listed so as of choice inside every class.
Rookie-Stage Names to Know
Adrian Quintana, RHP
Dylan Wilson, RHP
Walter Ford, RHP
Eduardo Ponce, C
Juan Cazarez, RHP
Danery Meyer, RHP
Quintana is a well-built 21-year-old righty who’s sitting 90-92 with a plus curveball. He was promoted again to Modesto a couple of days earlier than listing publication. A 6-foot 18-year-old righty from Curaçao, Wilson is sitting 88-90 with two respectable breaking balls (a low-80s lateral slider and a slower, vertical curveball). He’s an above-average athlete with below-average bodily projection. Ford, who’s nonetheless simply 19, signed for $1.2 million because the 74th general choose in 2022, however he hasn’t but left the advanced and he additionally hasn’t had his pre-draft velo as a professional (89-92 in my professional appears the final two years). A 5-foot-9 Mexican DSL catcher with superior protection and bat-to-ball expertise, Ponce has very restricted bodily projection. Cazarez is an athletic 5-foot-11 DSL vert lot righty who’s been as much as at the very least 95 and has a promising 12-to-6 curveball. Meyer is a 6-foot-4 17-year-old DSL righty. He’s a 40 athlete, however his fastball rides and his low-70s curveball has massive depth.
Funky Low Slots and Guys Who Can Spin It
Ty Cummings, RHP
Logan Gragg, RHP
Tyler Cleveland, RHP
Blas Castano, RHP
Will Schomberg, RHP
Anyelo Ovando, RHP
Cummings, a seventh rounder final 12 months out of Campbell, is a thin low-slot righty starter with a low-90s fastball and a superb slider. He appears like a possible no. 6-9 starter. Gragg was launched by the Cardinals final 12 months after he posted a 5.74 ERA as a Double-A starter. The Mariners signed him and moved him to the bullpen, the place he’s had upper-level success as a junkballing righty with 5 pitches. Cleveland was a starter at Central Arkansa. A low-slot righty, he’s run into stroll points after shifting to the bullpen this 12 months. Castano is a free, skinny, low-slot 25-year-old righty sinkerballer who may make an emergency begin sooner or later in his profession. Schomberg is an undrafted free agent out of Davidson with elite breaking ball spin. He’s an older man who had success throwing lots of cutters and curveballs to Low-A hitters earlier than his current promotion. Ovando is a huge-framed 23-year-old A-ball reliever with a messy supply, a plus curveball, and 7 ft of extension.
Contact Bats and Further Outfielders
Brock Rodden, 2B
Cade Marlowe, OF
RJ Schreck, OF
The switch-hitting Brock Rodden spent two seasons at an Oklahoma JUCO earlier than matriculating to Wichita State, the place he had extra walks than strikeouts and 17 bombs in each seasons for the Shockers. The diminutive speedster has nice trying hitting arms from the left facet of the plate and is an effective bit much less coordinated from the precise. He hasn’t actually been examined by massive velo but, and I’d wish to see him attempt heart discipline. Marlowe appeared like a possible further outfielder for plenty of years, however his strikeout charges have ballooned in Tacoma. He had a 34-game main league debut final 12 months. Schreck is a 23-year-old left fielder from Vanderbilt who’s having bat-to-ball success at Everett; his swing is tailor made for the brief porch there.
System Overview
Seattle’s massive league roster has elite beginning pitching and generates inconsistent offense. How applicable then that the Mariners farm system is stocked with promising younger hitters. Apart from Cole Younger, who’s essentially the most superior participant of the highest infield prospects right here and a possible near-term resolution to Seattle’s points at second base, these hitters are removed from the large leagues and/or typically redundant with items of the large league roster. Harry Ford is blocked by Cal Raleigh and can most likely want a chronic adjustment interval on the dish earlier than he begins hitting massive league pitching. Colt Emerson and Younger are related defenders to 1 one other, whereas J.P. Crawford, who reads by my TV just like the group’s non secular chief, is entrenched at shortstop by 2026. Because the white-hot Astros nip on the heels of a Mariners squad that has seen its division lead shrink from 10 video games on June 18 to 2 recreation as of publication, there shouldn’t be an untouchable identify atop this farm system with the commerce deadline approaching.
The massive chunk of potential on a regular basis hitters on the high of this method is likely one of the higher collections of younger bats throughout baseball despite the fact that solely a few them have star-level ceiling. The dearth of a common High 20 kind expertise and Seattle’s below-average general farm depth have this method sliding in slightly below the league median. Each the worldwide and home beginner scouting departments are accountable for this contingent of potential on a regular basis guys. Professional scouting has had extra influence on the large league group than is clear right here as a result of Luke Raley, Dominic Canzone, and others graduated in previous seasons.
The dearth of influence pitching within the system doesn’t really feel ominous as a result of the org has tended to do a superb job of growing it, which theoretically ought to proceed. Plus, the large league membership is already stacked in that regard, although the bullpen may arguably use a little bit of reinforcement. The world scouts and analysts who’ve unearthed good arms later within the draft are serving to to keep up pitching depth, and it’s doable that among the pitchers drafted or acquired just lately who’re presently injured will inject the system with upside after they return wholesome.
