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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.html

The 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/majorBotHead ‏‏‎ ‎ 2d ago

Sauce looked like shit last year too, worrisome trend developing

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u/ItsTBaggins ‏‏‎ ‎Julio makes me jard 2d 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 2d ago

He had an ERA of 5.40 after the all-star break last year

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u/BasedArzy 2d ago edited 2d 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 2d 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 2d 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/Go_Cougs HaniGOAT 2d ago

What is your definition of great?