Hour 4: Mariners Insider Shannon Drayer on the Young Players that Could Impact this Roster
Brock and Salk
Seattle Sports
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🗓️ 25 February 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Mariners Insider Shannon Drayer joins the show to talk about some of the younger guys in this organization that have a chance to make an impact in the foreseeable future, and who she has enjoyed getting to know while in camp // Need to Know: We got to see our first game with Brendan Donovan in a Mariners uniform, and he had a couple hits. John Schneider told the media that the 2025 draft class is stronger than this year’s, which is why he was more aggressive in the last draft and what the combine has turned into. The Kraken made some small moves after the All-Star Break / Olympics. // Brock & Salk talk about what they have enjoyed so far during their trip down to spring training, the back end bullpen pitchers that we are hoping can continue their dominance to help this team lock down wins. // The Seattle Times’ Ryan Divish joins the show to rank his top 5 things he loves!
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| 0:00.0 | Get me a freaking auto! |
| 0:01.5 | From the Quantum Fiber Studio, this is Brock and Salk on Seattle Sports. |
| 0:07.6 | I don't read the internet, guys. |
| 0:08.8 | Take the bull by the hands. |
| 0:10.0 | And Brooke, you are. |
| 0:11.5 | And Brooke, you are. |
| 0:13.5 | Now here are your hosts. |
| 0:14.7 | Brock Heward and Mike Saul. |
| 0:17.1 | And that fire. |
| 0:25.7 | Well, one of the great things about being at spring training all week is Shannon just comes by. |
| 0:28.4 | We don't have to get her on the phone or anything like that. |
| 0:29.8 | She just walked by and then we just get to... Kind of like Tucker. Like Tucker just floats, right? |
| 0:32.7 | Thankfully, we don't need to bribe Shannon. |
| 0:34.3 | We're the treats. |
| 0:36.1 | She'd just come over to talk baseball with us. Shannon, how are you today? Good. She got a good four hours of baseball in yesterday afternoon. That was awful. It wasn't great. It wasn't ideal. It all started so promisingly. I know. You saw that lineup and you're all excited and then that game never ends. And poor Cal Raleigh, he was, he wanted to get seven innings behind the plate and bless him. He stayed in for all seven. He was given the option to leave after six. Like, no, I'm going to do this. And then afterwards, it's been a long time since he's been in a game that long in spring training or even seen that part of a spring training game if you don't know the regulars come out and they leave they don't stay for all of this they're two different games all together and he was just shaking his head afterwards yeah chanin with a couple of the veteran guys and they said yeah it's surprising that you get sore you know but it but it's different you do all this training all, all this lifting, all this hitting, all of it, but actually |
| 1:28.9 | playing the game and being out there and the intensity of it and the performance of it. |
| 1:32.9 | Those quick movements, right? |
| 1:34.1 | Isn't it that? |
| 1:35.1 | And baseball is so many stop-to-start motions that I'm sure you can't help but get sore. |
| 1:41.0 | Yep. |
| 1:41.5 | I bet Cal is probably a little sore today. |
| 1:43.1 | What do you think? |
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