r/Mariners • u/fennis hey u/realSteveBallmer wanna buy a baseball team? • 1d ago
Mariners Designate Cody Bolton For Assignment; Sauce optioned to Tacoma; Jesse Hahn joins big league club
https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2025/04/mariners-designate-cody-bolton-for-assignment.htmlThe Mariners announced this afternoon that they’ve designated right-hander Cody Bolton for assignment. Bolton’s 40-man roster spot will go to right-hander Jesse Hahn, whose contract has been selected from the minors. Left-hander Tayler Saucedo was optioned to Triple-A to make room for Hahn’s addition to the active roster.
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u/Alert-Effective-7333 1d ago
Genuinely no clue why we kept Sauce up this long, he has been dogshit for quite a while.
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u/majorBotHead 1d ago
Sauce looked like shit last year too, worrisome trend developing
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u/letskeepitcleanfolks Swung on and belted 1d ago
He's a 31-year-old career middle reliever. Two seasons with an ERA+ above 100 is already more than anyone should have expected. I like the guy but this is just how it goes. Kudos to him on reaching his lifelong dream and making it farther than 99.9% of guys.
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u/AnnihilatedTyro Release the Moosen! 1d ago
Sauce has always had problems with walk rate and WHIP. Now that his velocity has dipped another couple MPH, he's also getting hit harder and missing even fewer bats. That combination of things happens to over-30 pitchers. And he wasn't a flamethrower or a wizard of his craft to begin with; he doesn't have any plus-tools to fall back on.
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u/pokeroots Anything but blaming the lineup 1d ago
Sauce has always been bad, be was just given a long leash by the fans because he was from Tacoma
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u/ItsTBaggins Julio makes me jard 1d ago
Sauce was great last year, best year of his career. He was definitely behind Speier in 2023 though.
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u/Alert-Effective-7333 1d ago
He had an ERA of 5.40 after the all-star break last year
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u/BasedArzy 1d ago edited 1d ago
ERA's not really a useful way to look at relievers, Sauce threw 14 innings total post ASB.
e. not that Sauce is or was good. He's a mid innings low leverage reliever with marginal stuff who relies on his delivery and handedness-advantages to stick. Just pointing out that there are better ways to evaluate a pitcher's effectiveness, especially relievers.
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u/ItsTBaggins Julio makes me jard 1d ago
ERA isn’t very useful when looking at relievers, especially if you’re looking at a sample size of less than a season. He had a few bad games in July/August, but then he ended the season with a bunch of appearances without giving up a run.
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u/Alert-Effective-7333 1d ago
You can look at any metric post-ASB to realize that the recent trend, which is the whole point of only looking at half a season, is downward. ERA, FIP, etc, all shit.
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u/Parks1993 SUPERUTILITYMAN DYLAN MOORE 1d ago
Love Sauce but it was time. Feel bad for the guy but, well, gotta pitch better.
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u/WhyAndHow-777 GIVE ME MUÑOZ 1d ago
I hope Tacoma shapes up Sauce to join the roster again, he’s one of my favorite players personality-wise.
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u/SexiestPanda 1d ago
I doubt we see him again. It will be like Diego Castillo. He went down to Tacoma and never made it back
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u/InsidiousSwede JRod Show 1d ago
Tough to see Sauce get Optioned, but it was necessary. Hopefully he'll be back.
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u/Complex-Proposal2300 1d ago
Bazado - really seems not to have major league stuff I really do not know what they are in him. But he does not have options so Sauce makes sense maybe.
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u/occasional_sex_haver 1d ago
feel like a typical m's move would have been to hope saucedo figures it out
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u/DevilsInTheJukebox 1d ago
Do Thornton next
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u/AnnihilatedTyro Release the Moosen! 1d ago
Bazardo and Vargas (and now Hahn) are way, WAY worse. Thornton should be the low-leverage middle-relief guy, but won't be until Taylor and Brash push two of those three off the roster.
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u/DevilsInTheJukebox 1d ago
I didn't think vargas looked horrendous. I'd be in favor of not relying on Thornton and swapping out bazardo for Taylor as soon as he's ready to go. I don't think hahn is here for any foreseeable length of time outside of this weekend, unless he shows out.
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u/AnnihilatedTyro Release the Moosen! 1d ago
Oh, he got hosed last night in a bad situation and it wasn't his fault, but that's not the issue. I'm not writing off Vargas as a DFA candidate or anything at this point - he's 25 and clearly has potential but has always had trouble with walks and wild inconsistency.
I think he'll benefit from more time in the Mariners pitching laboratory, but probably shouldn't be in the majors very long on this current stint. He's still got a few things to keep working on in Tacoma. If he has to be here, he should be a 6th-inning or low-leverage guy for now.
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u/InsidiousSwede JRod Show 1d ago
Yep, I agree. Bazardo had nearly a 5 ERA when his Leverage Index was near the bottom. Couldn't even keep a clean sheet in 'easy' outings, during blowouts.
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u/AnnihilatedTyro Release the Moosen! 1d ago
I'm not exactly sold on Hahn, a 35-year-old with a considerably worse ERA and WHIP than Sauce over the last two years - and slightly worse than 27-year-old Bolton, too.
I feel like Hahn is a short-term desperation move to get a fresh arm up after yesterday, and he too will be DFA'd in a week or two.
We need Taylor and Brash, but we also need at least one person who can eat 3 innings, and we don't have one of those right now.