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Seattle Mariners Avoid Arbitration with Key Pitcher, Utility Player

The Seattle Mariners have avoided arbitration with key starting pitcher Logan Gilbert and utility player Sam Haggerty, coming to contract terms for the 2024 season.

Brady Farkas

Seattle Mariners Avoid Arbitration with Key Pitcher, Utility Player
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The Seattle Mariners have avoided arbitration with pitcher Logan Gilbert and utility player Sam Haggerty by coming to terms for the 2024 season. 

Per Jon Morosi of MLB Network:

Source: Logan Gilbert, Mariners agree on 1-year, $4.05 million contract.

@MLB @MLBNetwork

Source: Sam Haggerty, Mariners agree on 1-year, $900k contract.

@MLBNetwork @SeattleSports

The 26-year-old Gilbert is an immense part of what the Mariners do, and is a key cog in one of the best starting rotations in baseball.

He made his debut in 2021, helping lead the Mariners to a 90-win season that year and a playoff berth in 2022.

Lifetime, he's 32-18 with a 3.76 ERA. He's made 32 starts each of the last two seasons and has made 88 starts total. Gilbert pairs with George Kirby to form one of the best pairs of young pitchers in the game. The team also has All-Star Luis Castillo and youngsters Bryan Woo and Bryce Miller.

Haggerty is now 29-years-old and has spent five years in the big leagues with the New York Mets and the Mariners. He was a huge part of the 2022 team that got to the playoffs but saw less time in 2023, playing in just 52 games because of injury.

Lifetime, he's a .238 hitter, but in that 2022 season, he hit .256 with five homers, 23 RBI and 13 stolen bases. Haggerty provides the ability to be a switch-hitter, play second base or any of the three outfield positions. He also runs extremely well and is valuable on the basepaths.

The M's finished 88-74 last season and missed the playoffs by 1.0 game.

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Brady Farkas
BRADY FARKAS

Brady Farkas is a baseball writer for Fastball on Sports Illustrated/FanNation and the host of 'The Payoff Pitch' podcast which can be found on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Videos on baseball also posted to YouTube. Brady has spent nearly a decade in sports talk radio and is a graduate of Oswego State University. You can follow him on Twitter @WDEVRadioBrady. 

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