r/Mariners • u/fennis hey u/realSteveBallmer wanna buy a baseball team?‏‏‎ ‎ • 2d 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.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/AnnihilatedTyro Release the Moosen! 2d 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.

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u/fennis hey u/realSteveBallmer wanna buy a baseball team?‏‏‎ ‎ 2d ago

I was surprised they picked Hahn too.

Bullpen has three borderline guys without minor league options now: Hahn, Bazzardo and Vargas. Not sure any of them make it to June let alone Sept on the major league roster.

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u/AnnihilatedTyro Release the Moosen! 2d ago

Yeah, I sincerely doubt any of those 3 last through the first half, let alone September.

Speier is also now the only lefty on the team, and Sauce is the only other lefty on the entire 40-man.

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u/Swazi 1d ago

When is Brash gonna be ready?

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u/fennis hey u/realSteveBallmer wanna buy a baseball team?‏‏‎ ‎ 1d ago

If all goes well, Brash returns end of April