Hour 2: Mariners President of Baseball Operations Jerry Dipoto and broadcaster Ryan Rowland-Smith
Bump and Stacy
Seattle Sports
4.5 • 540 Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Bump and Stacy are joined by Mariners President of Baseball Operations Jerry Dipoto live at T-Mobile Park to get the inside look at the Josh Naylor acquisition , they lay out their expectations for the Mariners starting pitching rotation and Cal Raleigh with TV Analyst Ryan Rowland-Smith, and they answer your questions about the Seahawks coaching staff and the NFL Draft in Four Down Territory,
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| 0:00.0 | From the Quantum Fiber Studio. |
| 0:03.0 | This is Bump and Stacey on Seattle Sports. |
| 0:06.0 | Streaming through the Seattle Sports app and at SeattleSports.com. |
| 0:11.0 | Now here are your hosts, Michael Bumpus and Stacey Ross. |
| 0:15.0 | One of our absolute favorites, Mariner's TV analyst, Ryan Roland Smith, |
| 0:20.0 | joining us now in the Emerald Queen Casino Sportsbook Hotline. Ryan, how's it going? |
| 0:24.4 | I'm doing great. Happy opening day. I was looking up the win projections for all teams. And, you know, I wasn't surprised to see the Mariners projected to win the AL West. We know that both nationally and locally in conversations, they've been projected as a heavy favorite for the division. |
| 0:42.6 | I was a little surprised to see the confidence in them winning the American League with how competitive the AL East is going to be. |
| 0:50.0 | Maybe that's why. |
| 0:51.5 | I wanted to kind of set up a if they do this then question for you. |
| 0:56.4 | So if the Mariners, let's say, do hit their win projection of 94 wins, it'll be |
| 1:00.4 | because what? |
| 1:02.3 | I think a couple things, first of all, on the pitching, they won, you know, 90 games |
| 1:08.1 | last year with pretty, to be honest with you, like middle of the range starting pitching, believe it or not, everyone, even going into 2025, everyone's like, well, the rotation's the strength. They're going to be a top three, if not the best rotation. They won't. They won't. And the offense carried him in the first couple months of the season, and then they had all the we know about that logan gilbert who's pitching tonight missed a whole month of may |
| 1:31.0 | george kirby was you know rocky out the gates didn't have he split bryce miller back and forth |
| 1:36.0 | brian will was outstanding so they were able to do that um with not having the rotation |
| 1:43.5 | live up to expectations now i think I think this year, obviously you got |
| 1:47.4 | Bryce Miller, but you've got Logan Gilbert, who I think has taken on everything that he kind of |
| 1:51.9 | learned last year, not around the injury, but more so about how to get some weaker contact or |
| 1:57.6 | really, you know, lean into his strengths. You've got Brian Wu coming off, |
| 2:02.4 | you know, obviously a great year. So the pitching is going to be better. And then on the offensive |
| 2:07.6 | side, too, man, for me, look, love home runs, you know, 50 plus percent home runs via the |
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