The Mariners close up the first weekend of Spring Training 2026 with a game against the Reds. As opposed to the B-lineup we saw yesterday, today looks more like the spring training opener, aside from those last three. Top prospect Michael Arroyo gets another chance at second base, and the left side of the infield will be held down by a pair of NRIs. As a reminder, if you don’t know that “Wilson” here is not our Dear Leader suiting up at the hot corner, you can find writeups on Will Wilson and Brock
Rodden in our NRIs article.
The Mariners will travel to Goodyear to play the Reds. Unfortunately, no Eugenio Suárez in today’s Reds lineup. Huh, JJ Bleday is a Red now? Bless spring training baseball for keeping us abreast of the more minor moves via lineups. JJ Bleday, you’ll always be spiritually an Oakland Athletic to me.
This is the last day for a while we’ll have an NRI starter: Logan Gilbert is scheduled to start tomorrow’s game against the Dodgers, and George Kirby is penciled in for Tuesday’s game against the White Sox. But today will be a chance to see NRI Randy Dobnak in person. He’ll be followed, in some order, by Jhonathan Díaz, Casey Legumina, Ryan Loutos, Robinson Ortiz, Cole Wilcox, and Domingo González. The “jicky” (Just In Case) pitchers being brought over from minor-league camp are Jimmy Kingsbury, Jean Muñoz, Jason Ruffcorn, and Ryan Hawks.
Offensively, highlights from the backups include several top prospects: catcher Luke Stevenson, who saw his first game action of the spring yesterday, working a walk; infielder Felnin Celesten, who didn’t receive an invite to big-league camp this year; and Lazaro Montes and Jonny Farmelo. Also Sammy Siani, who I somehow didn’t even realize was in Mariners camp. I really liked Siani in the 2019 Draft, when Pittsburgh took him 37th overall.
Today’s game is sadly not televised. It will be broadcast live on 710 AM Seattle Sports, with Rick Rizzs and Gary Hill Jr. on the call.
Game time: 12:05 PT
Watch: No
Listen: Seattle Sports 710 AM
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