There’s no telling what the Seattle Mariners will look like five years from now. In fact, there’s still a lot of debate about what the team will look like in 2025. But if the current perception of the club’s minor league system is any indication, the Mariners could be in a good place.

Seattle had five prospects ranked among MLB Pipeline’s top 100 players and eight players ranked on Baseball America’s year-end list. They were the most represented team in Baseball America’s top 100.

If it wasn’t clear from the fact that Baseball America has the Mariners with eight of the top 100 minor leaguers in baseball, the publication continues to look at the organization’s farm system in great detail.

Baseball America posted two articles ranking all MLB clubs hitting and pitching Statcast statistics. Publications used hit-plus for batters and stuff-plus for pitchers.

Hit-plus is a score that is calculated using wOBA (weighted on-base average) as the primary baseline. Similar to wRC+ (weighted runs created plus), the average score is 100.

Stuff-plus is a category that takes into account average fastball velocity and how well pitchers work secondary throws off the fastball. The stat takes into account speed, release and movement.

Baseball America had the Seattle minor leaguers tied for first in plus with the Los Angeles Dodgers (105.7) and fourth in hit plus with the Minnesota Twins (112).

According to the publication, the Mariners might have finished higher in hit-plus if not for some trades made to improve the major league roster:

sailors they also traded some of their high-profile prospects at the trade deadline, such as Aidan Smith (115) in the Randy Arozarena deal with the Rays, as well as prospects who ranked high by that measure like RJ Schreck ( 124) and Jonatan Clase (114). ) in a deal with the Blue Jays. Had he not completed his deals at the deadline, he would have had the organization’s second-highest score. But retaining players like Colt Emerson (123), Cole Young (121), Michael Arroyo (117), Harry Ford (115), Jonny Farmelo (113) and Felnin Celesten (108), the Mariners are still in good shape and occupy fourth place in HIT+.

On the pitching side, the Mariners have really excelled with their secondary pitches. They ranked just below average in plus stuff for four-seam fastballs (99). Instead, they were third in plus sliders (116) and second in two-seam balls (108). The publication had the following analysis regarding their sliders:

The Mariners, just as we saw with the highest arm-side horizontal break among four-seam fastballs, also have the highest glove-side horizontal break on sliders, suggesting an emphasis on East-West motion in their draft targets and tank development.

Seattle’s farm system has been considered one of the best in the league for most of the season. The pitching development has already spoken as the Mariners drafted four of five pitchers into their elite starting rotation.

Seattle is still looking to become consistent playoff contenders after missing the postseason for the 22nd time in 23 years last season. But from a player development point of view, this seems to have gone well.

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