Hour 4: Mariners Insider Shannon Drayer on Opening Day
Bump and Stacy
Seattle Sports
4.5 • 540 Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Bump and Stacy are joined by Mariners Insider Shannon Drayer live at T-Mobile Park to get you ready for Opening Day and to discuss their expectations for Cal Raleigh this year, they answer your questions about the Seahawks coaching staff and the NFL Draft in Four Down Territory, they make their predictions for the first month of the Mariners season, and they wrap up the show by telling you what you need to know!
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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 | Here we go now. |
| 0:16.0 | Mariners Insider, Shannon Dreyer, joining us right now in the Emerald Queen Casino Sportsbook hotline. And Shannon, my first question is a demand. And it's that you correctly predict who will hit the first home run today. It has to be right. You can't be wrong. Cole Young. I'm going with Cole Young. Yes. Ooh, you and bump. Good choices. Hey, let's go. Let's go. How about that? How about that? Bump's been pretty high on Cole, too. He's been talking about him a ton. We talked with Jerry about him. Tell me just, I know that we're so limited in what we can actually take from spring, but tell me what you like about what he's done this offseason and in spring |
| 0:56.1 | training and maybe some expectations for him in the first part of the season. |
| 1:00.6 | Yeah, I think he did some important things in the off season, taking a look at what |
| 1:04.8 | happened and what he went through in his first partial year in the big leagues and realized |
| 1:09.6 | first and foremost physically, |
| 1:11.4 | he had to get a little bigger, a little bit stronger, and a little bit more durable for the length |
| 1:15.1 | of an entire season. |
| 1:16.9 | That was not wasted on him that he was not in the postseason with this team and did not quite |
| 1:22.0 | make it to the finish line. |
| 1:23.2 | And as such, he did look different in spring training. |
| 1:26.5 | And he also really kind of came to the realization with some help from the Mariners of what he was doing at the plate that was perhaps hurting him a little bit. |
| 1:37.2 | You know, we see the power. |
| 1:38.4 | That's why Bump and I will take him because I think we are hoping something special happens with him this year. |
| 1:44.0 | And what has stood behind him or stood kind of between him. because I think we are hoping something special happens with him this year. |
| 1:52.5 | And what has stood behind him or stood kind of between him and that has been just what it looked like at the big league level, it was. |
| 1:54.3 | The numbers showed it inability to hit the fastball. |
| 1:57.9 | And it wasn't that he can't hit the fastball. |
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