Hour 2: Ryan Rowland-Smith on the Mariners pitching rotation questions
Bump and Stacy
Seattle Sports
4.5 • 540 Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Bump and Stacy have their weekly conversation with Ryan Rowland-Smith to get his thoughts on the current state of the Mariners’ starting pitching rotation, the next Miller/Castillo Piggyback game, and what Randy Arozarena brings to the offense, they answer your questions about Sam Darnold’s interception rate and the NFL week one slate in Four Down Territory, they look into the cutbacks new owner Tom Dundon is making in the Portland Trailblazers organization in The Timeline, and they break down the decision the Mariners need to make about their pitching staff.
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| 0:00.0 | From the Quantum Fiber Studio, 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 | Joining us now talking Mariners, Ryan Roland Smith. |
| 0:19.0 | Ryan, how's it going? |
| 0:20.0 | Good, how you doing, Stacey? |
| 0:22.3 | Good, good. Obviously happy that this team was able to get a win, salvage that series, and there's a lot of good to talk about. |
| 0:28.8 | So I'll start with this one. |
| 0:30.1 | Bump was talking about who he feels is one of the more underrated mariners this year, just a mariner |
| 0:35.6 | that's not getting a ton of spotlight. |
| 0:37.6 | And he mentioned Randy at Rosarena as being one of his. |
| 0:40.5 | What have you seen from from Randy and what he's meant particularly to the offense? |
| 0:45.6 | That's a good one. |
| 0:46.5 | It really is because usually and thinking about two, when you first came over from the trade |
| 0:51.1 | and then even last year, we're talking a lot about him and |
| 0:54.8 | for some reason in in in the past you're always kind of looking at him like all right at what |
| 1:00.4 | point is this going to not look like a good tray or randy's kind of you know the way he's playing |
| 1:07.0 | style is going to catch up to him where he makes errors, makes mistakes, mental mistakes and everything else. |
| 1:11.9 | And then all of a sudden you look up and go, hold on a minute. Like, he's, I'm not saying he's carrying this offense, but when you look at the consistency, staying off the IL, always been there and always being a threat, man, it's Randy, dude. Like, I will say this. a couple things, if you want to get to the more of the |
| 1:29.3 | baseball side from pitching against him, the ways you could get him out last year, it's not |
| 1:37.1 | the ways you can get him out this year. He used to be really susceptible to heaters up in the |
| 1:41.2 | strike zone, was swing and miss. He does have the swing and miss there there but the chase rate is way down and the home running heat yesterday against jordan hicks that's his |
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