Even After Garrett Crochet Trade, Red Sox Pursuing Mariners Starter

[Duran Is The Man]

36 minutes ago, moonslav59 said:

I think SEA trades Castillo and signs Sasaki.

This would be their rotation for 3+ years:

3 arb years Gilbert (27, 28 in May)

4 arb years Kirby (turns 27 in Feb)

5 years Miller (26)

5 years Woo (turns 25 in Jan)

? years Sasaki (just turned 23)

Damn!!!!

 

won't matter if they can't hit and score runs.

[harmony]

3 hours ago, notin said:

Why would he sign with the Mariners?

Thank you for asking.

Seattle remains a longshot to land Roki Sasaki but the Mariners ...

1. have a strong reputation of developing starting pitchers

2. have a solid record of maintaining the health of their starting pitchers

3. play their home games in MLB's most pitcher-friendly ballpark

https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/leaderboard/statcast-park-factors

4. have averaged 88+ wins over the past four seasons, landing one postseason berth, twice finishing one game behind the final Wild Care berth and once finishing two games back

5. return a relatively young core with multiple years of team control, losing only the likes of Jorge Polanco, Josh Rojas and Luis Urias (plus midseason acquisitions Justin Turner and Yimi Garcia)

6. currently employ Hisashi Iwakuma as a special assignment coach and Ichiro Suzuki as a special assistant to the chairman

7. play in MLB's closest market to Japan (4,769 air miles from Tokyo)

[harmony]

2 hours ago, Duran Is The Man said:

won't matter if they can't hit and score runs.

This year the Mariners matched the Red Sox with a wRC+ of 104, including a league-leading wRC+ of 118 after August 15 when the Red Sox slumped to a wRC+ of 83.

Like most teams, the Mariners and Red Sox seek to improve their hitting.

[notin]

23 minutes ago, harmony said:

Thank you for asking.

Seattle remains a longshot to land Roki Sasaki but the Mariners ...

1. have a strong reputation of developing starting pitchers

2. have a solid record of maintaining the health of their starting pitchers

3. play their home games in MLB's most pitcher-friendly ballpark

https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/leaderboard/statcast-park-factors

4. have averaged 88+ wins over the past four seasons, landing one postseason berth, twice finishing one game behind the final Wild Care berth and once finishing two games back

5. return a relatively young core with multiple years of team control, losing only the likes of Jorge Polanco, Josh Rojas and Luis Urias (plus midseason acquisitions Justin Turner and Yimi Garcia)

6. currently employ Hisashi Iwakuma as a special assignment coach and Ichiro Suzuki as a special assistant to the chairman

7. play in MLB's closest market to Japan (4,769 air miles from Tokyo)

And yet with all that, the Mariners haven’t had a Japanese player come over to join their team since  Yusei Kikuchi in 2019.  

The Red Sox currently have one…

[Larry Cook]

11 hours ago, Brock Beauchamp said:

Call it a hunch but I don't think Sasaki is going to the Dodgers. I'd give better odds to the Padres, frankly.

He has shown a willingness to consider smaller-market teams and at some point, Japanese stars are not going to want to play second (or in Sasaki's case, third) fiddle on a team like the Dodgers.

Sasaki said his childhood idol was yu danish