Under is an evaluation of the prospects within the farm system of the Seattle Mariners. Scouting stories had been compiled with info offered by business sources in addition to my very own observations. That is the fourth yr we’re delineating between two anticipated reduction roles, the abbreviations for which you’ll see within the “place” column under: MIRP for multi-inning reduction pitchers, and SIRP for single-inning reduction pitchers. The ETAs listed usually correspond to the yr a participant needs to be added to the 40-man roster to keep away from being made eligible for the Rule 5 draft. Handbook 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.
All the ranked prospects under additionally seem on The Board, a useful resource the location gives that includes sortable scouting info for each group. It has extra particulars (and up to date TrackMan information from numerous sources) than this text and integrates each workforce’s listing so readers can examine prospects throughout farm techniques. It may be discovered right here.
Different Prospects of Notice
Grouped by sort and listed so as of desire 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 number 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 complicated and he additionally hasn’t had his pre-draft velo as a professional (89-92 in my professional seems the final two years). A 5-foot-9 Mexican DSL catcher with superior protection and bat-to-ball abilities, 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 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 huge 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 yr out of Campbell, is a thin low-slot righty starter with a low-90s fastball and slider. He seems like a possible no. 6-9 starter. Gragg was launched by the Cardinals final yr 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 yr. Castano is a unfastened, skinny, low-slot 25-year-old righty sinkerballer who might 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 a variety of cutters and curveballs to Low-A hitters earlier than his latest promotion. Ovando is a huge-framed 23-year-old A-ball reliever with a messy supply, a plus curveball, and 7 toes 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 huge velo but, and I’d prefer to see him strive middle area. Marlowe appeared like a possible further outfielder for quite a lot of years, however his strikeout charges have ballooned in Tacoma. He had a 34-game main league debut final yr. 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 huge league roster has elite beginning pitching and generates inconsistent offense. How applicable then that the Mariners farm system is stocked with promising younger hitters. Other than Cole Younger, who’s essentially the most superior participant of the highest infield prospects right here and a possible near-term answer to Seattle’s points at second base, these hitters are removed from the massive leagues and/or usually redundant with items of the massive league roster. Harry Ford is blocked by Cal Raleigh and can in all probability want a protracted adjustment interval on the dish earlier than he begins hitting huge league pitching. Colt Emerson and Younger are comparable defenders to at least one one other, whereas J.P. Crawford, who reads by my TV just like the workforce’s religious 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 sport as of publication, there shouldn’t be an untouchable title atop this farm system with the commerce deadline approaching.
The large chunk of potential on a regular basis hitters on the high of this method is among the higher collections of younger bats throughout baseball although solely a few them have star-level ceiling. The dearth of a common Prime 20 sort expertise and Seattle’s below-average general farm depth have this method sliding in slightly below the league median. Each the worldwide and home newbie scouting departments are answerable for this contingent of potential on a regular basis guys. Professional scouting has had extra impression on the massive league workforce than is clear right here as a result of Luke Raley, Dominic Canzone, and others graduated in previous seasons.
The dearth of impression pitching within the system doesn’t really feel ominous as a result of the org has tended to do job of creating it, which theoretically ought to proceed. Plus, the massive league membership is already stacked in that regard, although the bullpen might arguably use a little bit of reinforcement. The realm scouts and analysts who’ve unearthed good arms later within the draft are serving to to take care of pitching depth, and it’s doable that a few of the pitchers drafted or acquired not too long ago who’re presently injured will inject the system with upside after they return wholesome.