{"id":185851,"date":"2025-10-02T20:22:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T20:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/185851\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T20:22:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T20:22:14","slug":"mariners-notes-woo-alds-roster-raleigh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/185851\/","title":{"rendered":"Mariners Notes: Woo, ALDS Roster, Raleigh"},"content":{"rendered":"

No, Ichiro Suzuki<\/a> isn\u2019t coming out of retirement to be part of the Mariners\u2019 playoff roster.\u00a0 The Hall-of-Famer played six innings in the outfield during a split-squad tune-up game<\/a> yesterday at T-Mobile Park, adding some extra fun to the proceedings as the M\u2019s got ready for the start of their ALDS matchup with either the Tigers or the Guardians on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The final calls on the 26-man playoff roster won\u2019t be announced until a few hours before Saturday\u2019s game, and as Ryan Divish of the Seattle Times<\/a> notes, some of the Mariners\u2019 decisions will likely depend on whether they\u2019re facing Detroit or Cleveland.\u00a0 Perhaps the biggest roster question revolves about Bryan Woo<\/a>\u2019s status, but manager Dan Wilson said Woo is set to toss a bullpen session today.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt seems like things are going according to plan,\u201d Wilson told Divish<\/a> and other reporters.\u00a0 \u201cHe\u2019ll get off the mound on Thursday, and so getting a chance to hear how he comes back from that on Friday and whatnot\u2026.We\u2019ll just a continue to take it day by day and assess.\u00a0 And I do believe that we\u2019re in a good spot with that.\u201d<\/p>\n

The bullpen session will mark Woo\u2019s first time throwing off a mound since September 19, when pectoral tightness forced him out of a start after five innings.\u00a0 The injury wasn\u2019t severe enough to merit a placement on the 15-day injured list, though naturally the M\u2019s are being as cautious as possible with a pitcher who has been Seattle\u2019s most reliable starter in 2025.<\/p>\n

No announcement has been made about the Mariners\u2019 playoff rotation, as Wilson said those decisions will wait until they team knows their opponent and has more input on Woo\u2019s availability.\u00a0 Assuming Woo is able to pitch, however, Divish doesn\u2019t think the right-hander will work in either of Seattle\u2019s first two games of the series.\u00a0 Based on mound work during Wednesday\u2019s warm-ups, George Kirby<\/a> and Logan Gilbert<\/a> (in some order) could be the favorites to start Game 1 and Game 2.<\/p>\n

The Mariners have long envisioned the idea of these two homegrown arms headlining a playoff series, ever since Kirby was drafted 20th overall in 2019 and Gilbert was the 14th overall pick of the 2018 draft.\u00a0 As MLB.com\u2019s Jim Callis<\/a> writes, team scout Rob Mummau played a big role in convincing the M\u2019s to select Gilbert, whose stock had somewhat dropped after an ill-timed bout of mononucleosis during the spring before the draft.<\/p>\n

The focus of Callis\u2019 piece is on Mummau\u2019s real find of the 2018 draft, as the scout\u2019s glowing reports led the Mariners to take Cal Raleigh<\/a> with their third-round pick (90th overall).\u00a0 Raleigh wasn\u2019t a complete diamond in the rough, as the M\u2019s had to pay Raleigh $221.3K over the slot value of the 90th overall pick to convince Raleigh to leave Florida State after his junior year.\u00a0 However, while Raleigh was\u00a0coming off a big season at FSU, his draft stock had fallen due to an unimpressive sophomore year.<\/p>\n

Mummau (who had some past ties to Raleigh\u2019s family) knew that Raleigh had been dealing with a thumb injury that season.\u00a0 As a result, Mummau\u2019s grades on Raleigh\u2019s offensive and defensive tools were notably higher than other scouts, who projected Raleigh as a part-time starting catcher at best.\u00a0 It was enough for the Mariners to make the pick and the rest has become history, as Raleigh has exceeded all expectations to become a superstar on both sides of the ball.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No, Ichiro Suzuki isn\u2019t coming out of retirement to be part of the Mariners\u2019 playoff roster.\u00a0 The Hall-of-Famer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,47315,6099,591,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-185851","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-bryan-woo","11":"tag-cal-raleigh","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}