In 2022 Cade Marlowe had himself a particularly sizzling second half of the season in Double-A. From July 1st by means of September thirteenth he slashed .348/.439/.567 with 12 doubles and 10 home runs. This earned him a promotion to Triple-A Tacoma for the ultimate few weeks of the minor league season.

After that he discovered himself on the doorstep of the massive leagues. He traveled with the Seattle Mariners to Toronto for his or her American League Wild Card Sequence. He was introduced in case the membership wanted one other outfielder as a result of Jesse Winker and Sam Haggerty had been each harm. If Marlowe would have been activated for that sequence, he would have made his huge league debut within the playoffs, one thing only five players have done in baseball history.

Marlowe didn’t make his debut and he began this season with Triple-A Tacoma. He had been struggling for some time and thru his first 45 video games he was slashing .224/.286/.383 with simply 4 dwelling runs. Nevertheless he has been hitting at a a lot increased clip currently.

In his final 11 video games, the Georgia native is hitting .348/.444/.696 with three doubles and three dwelling runs. It is a significantly better line in comparison with his earlier numbers, and in his final 5 video games he has been on a fair hotter tear. He’s hitting .500, going 10-for-20 and strolling greater than he has struck out, and placing up a .500/.600/1.100 slash line. If Marlowe can preserve this sizzling streak up then he would possibly discover himself on his method to Seattle.

Cade Marlowe is 16 for his final 44 (7 BB), with 8 XBH (3 HR, 2 triples). Has reached base in 11 consecutive video games. #SeaUsRise https://t.co/clF4IohnvT

— Paul Braverman (@PaulBraverman) June 30, 2023

Modesto Nuts (A) – California League

Everett AquaSox (A+) — Northwest League

Arkansas Vacationers (AA) – Texas League

Tacoma Rainiers (AAA) – Pacific Coast League

Mariners Draft Highlight

One of many ways in which the Mariners group has been profitable within the draft is by getting essentially the most out of school pitchers. They’ve taken first spherical school starters and turned them into huge league rotation staples in George Kirby and Logan Gilbert. The membership has additionally taken Bryan Woo and Bryce Miller within the sixth and fourth rounds respectively and gotten them into their huge league rotation. If the group decides to focus on school pitchers after the primary spherical, Seth Keener from Wake Forest is drawing consideration as a “robust day two prospect.”

Joe Doyle of Future Stars Series likes this Wake Forest right-hander and has him ranked as his 78th draft prospect. Keener began solely 8 video games for the Demon Deacons in 2023, however that was partially because of the group having a loaded pitching employees. They solely had 5 pitchers begin a number of video games in 2023 and three of the 4 in addition to Keener are ranked increased than him in Doyle’s 2023  draft rankings and one among them is ranked twentieth in Doyle’s high 200 2024 school prospects. So it’s potential that if Keener had been on a distinct group he would have had extra alternatives to start out.

Regardless, in his 70.1 innings pitched for Wake Forest Keener had a 2.69 ERA with 94 strikeouts and 20 walks. Doyle had this to say about the 6-foot-2 righty, “He can rush it as much as 95, resting within the low 90s with elite-level extension and misleading qualities to a few of his stuff. Keener will combine it up with 4 pitches, leaning on the four-seamer, inducing swing and miss primarily with a sweeping breaking ball within the low-80s. Keener checks a variety of metrics containers with huge spin charges, the aforementioned elite extension and athleticism numbers, in addition to budding velocity.”

Seth Keener on tempo for the outing of the day, he’s bought 13 Ks via 6 innings & the #1 group within the nation is trying nice to open regionals. 🔥@WakeBaseball pic.twitter.com/lZpmR17q2N

— PG Faculty Baseball (@PGCollegeBall) June 3, 2023

Mariners Prospects within the Information

The Seattle Mariners will have two prospects representing the organization at the Futures Game in Seattle on July eighth at T-Cellular Park.

Try which high school prospects Jim Callis of MLB Pipeline mocked to the Mariners in his newest MLB Mock Draft.

MLB Pipeline got here out with an up to date high 100 MLB prospects list that includes three Mariners after Bryce Miller graduated.