{"id":649393,"date":"2026-05-18T00:09:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T00:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/649393\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T00:09:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T00:09:07","slug":"seattle-mariners-call-up-top-prospect-colt-emerson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/649393\/","title":{"rendered":"Seattle Mariners call up top prospect Colt Emerson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">SEATTLE (KPTV) &#8211; The Seattle Mariners are calling up their top prospect, the team announced Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">20-year-old infielder Colt Emerson is in the starting lineup for the team\u2019s game against the San Diego Padres on Sunday afternoon, batting ninth and starting at third base.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Emerson is the top Mariners prospect, and is considered one of the top prospects across Major League Baseball, according to various publications.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Zanesville, Ohio native was selected 22nd overall by the Mariners in the 2023 MLB Draft out of John Glenn High School in New Concord, Ohio.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In 38 games this season &#8211; all with the AAA Tacoma Rainiers &#8211; Emerson is hitting .255 with seven home runs and 26 RBIs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Playing for three different Mariners affiliates in 2025, Emerson hit .285, with 16 home runs and 78 RBIs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In a corresponding move, the Mariners placed veteran utilityman Brendan Donovan on the 10-day injured list.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Mariners (22-25) have struggled out of the gate to begin the 2026 season, after coming within one game of making their first ever World Series appearance in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KPTV-KPDX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEATTLE (KPTV) &#8211; The Seattle Mariners are calling up their top prospect, the team announced Sunday. 20-year-old infielder&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":649394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[24366,11551,574,6906,7053,103230,15441,3071,275,8609,20041,29313,103232,13538,103233,6270,9264,4381,41452,363,698,15195,1583,15686,19497,2079,99,2987,32432],"class_list":["post-649393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-accident","tag-arrest","tag-blue","tag-car","tag-city","tag-cop","tag-crash","tag-crime","tag-day","tag-death","tag-deputy","tag-enforcement","tag-flashing","tag-force","tag-investigate","tag-investigation","tag-justice","tag-law-enforcement","tag-lights","tag-mlb","tag-murder","tag-officer","tag-police","tag-scene","tag-sheriff","tag-shooting","tag-sports","tag-traffic","tag-urban"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}