u/ItsTBaggins

Another season has come and gone, and its time for us to close the book on the year. Thank you to everyone who took the time to vote for the awards and respond to the handful of "survey" questions. There were 179 responses this year, and only one was scrubbed entirely. You'll see quite a few of the questions have fewer responses as some folks chose not to answer questions or their joke responses have been omitted. And yes this is a repost because I broke my post when trying to edit it a bit. Below are the past years’ results if you're interested in looking back. We'll start with the "survey" responses, and then on to the awards!

2025 Results

2024 Results

2023 Results

2022 Results

2021 Results

THE BOAT POSTS SHALL CONTINUE - at least until Spring Training!

The sub nearly unanimously agreed the Dan Wilson had to go.

Majority of voters wish the front office were cleared out, but it was not nearly as homogenous.

Congrats (?) to Cal Raleigh for being the Biggest Disappointment! Robby Ref, Brendan Donovan, Josh Naylor, Taylor Ward, and Julio Rodríguez round out the top 5. Notable write-ins included \"Replacing Rick’s final call with conservative talk radio,\" \"everyone,\" \"r/mariners,\" \"Humpy :(,\" and \"Everyone not name Randy and Canzone.\"

Congrats to Jhonny Pereda on being the Best Acquisition! José A. Ferrer, Brendan Donovan, Seranthony Domínguez (dark blue), and Cooper Criswell (purple) round out the top 5. Notable write-ins included \"My enhanced depression. Didn't know it could get deeper, well done Ms,\" \"none,\" \"This is an insanely depressing list of names,\" and \"the money we got for Castillo.\"

Congrats to Kade Anderson on being the Rookie of the Year! Colt Emerson and Michael Arroyo round out the top 3!

Congrats to Cole Young for being the Platinum Glover! Hopefully, he can follow it up with a gold glove during MLB award season! Julio Rodríguez, Josh Naylor, Cal Raleigh, and Randy Arozarena round out the top 5! The only notable write-in was \"Lmao dont give that shit to anyone. Pick a random homeless person outside the stadium and give it to em.\"

Congrats to Gabe Speier for being the Reliever of the Year! José A. Ferrer edged out Andrés Muñoz for second by one vote! Cooper Criswell and Eduard Bazardo round out the top 5!

Congrats to Logan Gilbert for being the Starter of the Year! The remaining vote getters in order were Emerson Hancock, Bryan Woo, Kade Anderson, George Kirby, and Luis Castillo.

Congrats to Randy Arozarena for being the Offensive Player of the Year! Dominic Canzone (light purple) and Josh Naylor were the only other players to receive multiple votes.

Who was your Favorite Mariner?

Cole Young	48	29.63%
Dominic Canzone	32	19.75%
Randy Arozarena	22	13.58%
Josh Naylor	12	7.41%
Lazaro Montes	10	6.17%
J.P. Crawford	7	4.32%
Jhonny Pereda	7	4.32%
Julio Rodríguez	6	3.70%
Bryan Woo	3	1.85%
Andrés Muñoz	2	1.23%
Emerson Hancock	2	1.23%
Cal Raleigh	2	1.23%

Congratulations to Cole Young on being the Fan Favorite!

^(Colt Emerson, Brendan Donovan, Humpy, George Kirby, Kade Anderson, Logan Gilbert, Michael Arroyo, Rick Rizzs, and Victor Robles each received one vote.)

Who was the Mariners MVP?

Randy Arozarena	119	74.38%
Cole Young	15	9.38%
Dominic Canzone	9	5.63%
Rick Rizzs	6	3.75%
Tucker	3	1.88%
Humpy	2	1.25%

Congratulations to Randy Arozarena on being the Mariners MVP!

^(Cal Raleigh, Emerson Hancock, Josh Naylor, J.P. Crawford, Julio Rodríguez, and Logan Gilbert each received one vote.)

I don't have too many big takeaways from this year's awards. Gilbert's SPOTY award makes his third, meaning he's won half of them.

Per Dan’s post-game presser, Miller went to the bullpen as an emergency reliever. If he were needed he could have been available since today was a scheduled side session. It was a one day only thing.

I recommend you sort by new, I can’t make that the default for this. :(

We don’t have a good option to replace Refsnyder in the org. Next up is Connor Joe, who had a nice start, but has fallen off and isn’t MLB caliber either. If we don’t make a move, maybe Weston Wilson sticks around instead of Ref when Donovan returns, but there’s a reason he’s on his third team in 1.5 years. Brennan Davis has looked good in Tacoma, but he is currently hurt and hasn’t had a single rep in MLB. We are going to have to find a RHH by the deadline, maybe multiple. I’m interested in hearing some targets and rationale, and I’ll make my own proposal below.

I think we should target Luis Robert Jr. He has often been injured throughout his career and is currently on the injured list. He’s been up and down performance wise due to the injuries, but he still has all the talent to be a plus bat, glove, and runner. Perhaps most importantly, he has hit well at T-Mobile Park in his career and has hit lefties for a wRC+ of 120 or higher in all but his 2024 season (only 67, idk wtf happened there). We can afford to rest him once or twice a week and/or play him at DH occasionally to help keep him fresh. He is definitely better at facing lefties in his career, but he is not strictly a platoon guy given his baserunning and defensive capabilities too.

He didn’t cost the Mets much, and given that he has struggled and been hurt much of this year, he shouldn’t cost too much now either. He is owed $20M this year with a team option for $20M next year ($2M buyout). I’d offer Luke Raley to start. Much cheaper, gives them a good bat against righties, and they can either keep him to try and compete next year or sell him off before the deadline or in the offseason. Depending on how we feel about absorbing Robert’s contract, we can try to send Castillo to the Mets to help offset the payroll (they also need pitching). And then, of course, we’ll need to include some sort prospect package. Based on the prospects included in the package to the White Sox, I don’t think there’d be any discussion of including someone like Laz, Anderson, or Sloan. We could sell high on someone like Farmelo and that would probably do a lot of the heavy lifting in the deal or offer a couple prospects in the 8-20 range. Whether Castillo goes and/or how much salary we take on or offload will have a big impact on what prospects could get it done.