{"id":92795,"date":"2024-12-28T02:24:09","date_gmt":"2024-12-28T07:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=92795"},"modified":"2024-12-28T02:28:26","modified_gmt":"2024-12-28T07:28:26","slug":"mariners-reject-luis-castillo-trade-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/12\/28\/mariners-reject-luis-castillo-trade-proposal\/","title":{"rendered":"Mariners Struggling to Find Right Castillo Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Seattle Mariners entered the offseason with clear needs to address. Yet another whiff at second base has left them looking for almost an entirely new infield. First baseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/t\/turneju01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-12-28_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Justin Turner<\/a> and third baseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=rojasjo01,rojas-017jos&amp;search=Josh+Rojas&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-12-28_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Josh Rojas<\/a> left for free agency. As time goes on, Seattle realizes that upgrading their abundance of needs with financial constraints is an impossible task. With the offseason almost certainly not going the way the team planned, the Mariners have resorted to considering a trade of their ace <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=castilu02,castilu01,castilu03,castil018lui,castil027lui,castil025lui,castil020lui&amp;search=Luis+Castillo&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-12-28_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Luis Castillo<\/a> to free up spending money.<\/p>\n<p>According to MLB insider Jon Heyman, Seattle is growing &#8216;frustrated&#8217; with the offers they&#8217;re receiving. Castillo, 32, is a true innings-eater. He would live at the top of most rotations in the league. Better yet, he signed an incredibly team-friendly extension in 2022. Castillo is netting $24 million this year, which in the current market is a steal for a pitcher of his caliber.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mariners?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@Mariners<\/a> are &#8220;frustrated&#8221; with the deals that they&#8217;ve been hearing lately for starting pitcher Luis Castillo, per <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JonHeyman?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@JonHeyman<\/a> on <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BleacherReport?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@BleacherReport<\/a> live.<a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TridentsUp?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#TridentsUp<\/a> <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SeattleMariners?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#SeattleMariners<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Circling Seattle Sports (@CirclingSports) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CirclingSports\/status\/1872378233620246810?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December 26, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Mariners Turn Down Luis Castillo Trade<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Per <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/news\/red-sox-deepened-rotation-with-crochet-and-buehler?partnerID=mlbapp-iOS_article-share\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MLB.com&#8217;s Mark Feinsand<\/a>, Seattle was actively shopping Castillo during the MLB Winter Meetings. They almost struck a deal with the <\/span><a style=\"font-size: 16px;\" href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/12\/11\/red-sox-eyeing-mariners-starting-pitcher\/\" target=\"_self\">Boston Red Sox<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">. The deal reportedly fell through because Boston wanted to salary dump <\/span><a style=\"font-size: 16px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/y\/yoshima02.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-12-28_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Masataka Yoshida<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"> and his $18 million contract. While Yoshida would certainly be an impact bat, the outfield is the one place Seattle doesn&#8217;t need help. He could chip in at DH, where the Mariners do need help, but doing so would only net the Mariners an extra $6 million to work with.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RedSox?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#RedSox<\/a> pursued <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Mariners?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Mariners<\/a> SP Luis Castillo before pivoting to signing Walker Buehler, per <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Feinsand?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@Feinsand<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Feinsand notes SEA wanted 1B Triston Casas back in a potential Castillo trade\u2014which BOS was unwilling to do unless SEA also took on OF Masataka Yoshida\u2019s contract. <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ddcGHkdzWN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/ddcGHkdzWN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MLB Deadline News (@MLBDeadlineNews) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLBDeadlineNews\/status\/1872473962665615721?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December 27, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Less Money, More Problems for Seattle<\/h3>\n<p>According to Adam Jude of the Seattle Times, Seattle is projected to be sitting on around $16 million to work with. So, acquiring Yoshida would give them $22 million to fill two to three holes, instead of $40 million to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Seattle&#8217;s main goal in a trade with Boston would be to acquire first baseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/c\/casastr01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-12-28_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Triston Casas<\/a>, who is slated to make less than $100,000 above the league minimum in 2024. Boston has already spent big on pitching this offseason, and with a solid outfield, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/12\/27\/red-sox-pursuing-postseason-star\/\" target=\"_self\">salary dumping Yoshida<\/a> makes sense, but Seattle doesn&#8217;t have the financial means to be the right suitor, pivoting their interest elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: \u00a9 Jeff Le-Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Seattle Mariners entered the offseason with clear needs to address. Yet another whiff at second base has left them looking for almost an entirely new infield. First baseman Justin Turner and third baseman Josh Rojas left for free agency. As time goes on, Seattle realizes that upgrading their abundance of needs with financial constraints [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5357,"featured_media":92801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1071,35],"tags":[2974,435,922,6081,2021],"class_list":["post-92795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mariners","category-mlb","category-news","tag-josh-rojas","tag-justin-turner","tag-luis-castillo","tag-masataka-yoshida","tag-triston-casas"],"modified_by":"Lewis Masella, Site Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5357"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92795"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92803,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92795\/revisions\/92803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}