Mariners Promote Top Prospect Kade Anderson to MLB

But I do have some breaking news here, Greg, as it appears somebody else is making a decision here in Major League Baseball, and it looks like the Seattle Mariners have decided that they are going to bring up the guy you've been talking about for over a month now. And you're telling me this kid is the real deal. We're talking about Cade Anderson, the left-hander, who I believe was, what, the top-rated minor Yep, number one prospect in all of baseball. So look, desperation kind of calls for this if you're Seattle, and it does make some sense. September call-ups, Joe, are not what they used to be now. It doesn't matter. You're still accruing service time. They got rid of that rule. So if you come up, the clock starts. It doesn't matter. Remember back in the day, guys would come up in September, teams would have 50 guys sitting in the dugout. You can't do that anymore. So I suppose it really sucks for him because it's kind of like a last gasp, like, come be the savior, come be the hero for us. I think we discussed this the other day. What makes this interesting is, I don't know, Joe, I'm sure you've been paying attention, but if you've noticed, like, Baez came up for the Cardinals, and like, Anderson has now come up for Seattle, but isn't it kind of strange that a lot of prospects have not been called up over the last month or so, and I don't think a lot will in the next month because as I've discussed, and I'll mention it again for people who weren't watching, is that this looming collective bargaining agreement, there is no collective bargaining agreement over minor league baseball. So now, with Kate Anderson being called up, Kate Anderson now cannot report to the Mariners minor league facility in the offseason or even go to spring training with the AAA team because now he's part of the 40-man roster. So that's why you're not seeing a ton of young guys called up, Joe, because when push comes to shove, Max Clark got called up too for Detroit, I should mention that, but when push comes to shove, if there's a team that's 50-50 on a prospect, maybe that guy gets, the kid gets called up in September just to say, hey, let's give him his cup of coffee and see how he does, and then we'll see you back in spring training. That's not going to happen this season because of the looming lockout. The better move for some of these clubs is to say, you know what, we don't know if we're in it or not, let's just keep them in the minors, and then if there's a lockout, guess where that kid starts off? He plays AAA. He could play an entire minor league season, Joe, next season. It's great. You just let him play the whole year and then be ready to go in 2028 or hopefully when the season begins in baseball, hopefully right on opening day at the end of March and April, but that's why you're not seeing a lot of this. I don't think this necessarily applies to a guy like Kate Anderson. To me, Joe, this smells of just mad desperation for the Mariners. They're just throwing it all out there to say, hey, let's see if this kid could inject some life into this team. The question, Joe, that you probably would ask and I would too, why now? Why not last week? Why not the week before? Why not July? The kid has just dominated the entire season. He had nothing to prove a month ago. Why now? Desperate times call for desperate measures. Kate Anderson comes up. That's it. Yep. I listened. Is he the real deal? Because I've heard it from a number of people that this guy is, he's the next, I don't want to say Paul Skeens, but he's a big lefty here that everyone seems to think is a franchise game changer. Is that what you're hearing as well? Yeah. Look, he's, he's the number one prospect in all of baseball. So he should be that. For a reason. I cannot say that he's going to come up like Skeens did. No, I can't do that because that's, there have been a handful of guys that we've seen in the last 10, 20 years that have come up, done it, and gone on to win a world series like a Strasburg and Skeens is like a short list. So I'm not going to throw that on Kate Anderson right out of the box because Skeens was better. Stats aside, Skeens was a more highly touted guy than Kate Anderson was with Kate Anderson up right now. I mean, Skeens, Joe, I mean, if you remember Paul Skeens pitching at LSU, throwing a hundred. Yes. And, and, and by the way, hitting home runs Paul Skeens in college too, he was a catcher also. I mean, Skeens was the athlete among athletes. So I don't know that Kate Anderson is this guy, but he is universally the number one prospect right now in baseball. If Skeens was still a prospect, that probably would have Skeens ahead of him. Crazy. The numbers 1.06 ERA, 93 and a third, 135 strikeouts and 93 and a third. Insane. Wow. Yup. And only 13 walks and he's only given up 47 hits. This is impressive. Impressive. Does he pitch against the A's? When does he pitch against the A's? That's what I want to know. Yeah. Exactly. Correct.