Kristopher Negrón

If you weren't listening, we've said that we were going to go outside the box and maybe they didn't have it.

And then I look over here on the possible candidates and I look at Christopher Negron, who was formerly part of the Mariners group.

That's just one that I'm like, Man, I feel like they kind of liked what they had with him.

I hope that's not the case, not to knock him, but I want something different.

Again, feels like a long shot.

Christopher Negron, Pirates bench coach.

Kai Correa, Mets bench coach, and then Rocco Baldelli, the Dodgers baseball operations assistant, former Twins manager, all still...

I'd say those last three are probably the o- the ones that feel like they now have the pole position, if that makes sense.

I'll be shocked if he lasts more than three years.

But the Mariners need to win back some faith with this fan base, and if that means getting a guy who is le- is less of an intangible than a bench coach, then I think that's what they do to win back some favor.

And then, you know, in a couple years' time if they decide, oh, Baldelli's not the guy, they go with a Kai Correa or Christopher Negron type of bench guy.

'Cause I mean, there's, there's always gonna be one around somewhere.

I do want to clarify that to your point, like the nostalgia for someone to have earned nostalgia, they must have been a Mariner long enough.

Like I said this before, but like Christopher Negron's 38 games or whatever don't count as nostalgia.

No, he's clearly in the promotion category, not in the former Mariner category.

Yeah, exactly.

Yeah, that would certainly be a full circle moment for sure.

Well, before we recap the draft listing all 12 picks, do we want to give like, you know, maybe 10 seconds apiece to some of the names we considered that we didn't end up picking?

I mean, frankly, we all deserve to be tarred and feathered for nobody selecting Christopher Negron throughout this whole process.

Yeah, he's absolutely top of the promotions list for sure because he's external now.

Um, and there's a bunch of other guys that haven't, uh, managed before that I'm sure will get a chance here.

Uh, Christopher Negron, Carson Vitaly, a couple of former Mariners coaches who might get a shot here.

Mm-hmm.

Colin Cowgill, who-

You know what? You, you probably saw your crystal ball a couple of weeks ago, Bill.

And Christopher Negron is going to be there tomorrow and he's going to be announced as the new manager of the Mariners to everyone's dismay.

Yeah.

He was there at the ballpark today.

So that's I think that's positive.

I think that's good.

uh you know pete woodworth i think you know switch transition to dan right he'll transition to whoever the manager is i think it still gives a nod to christopher negron in some ways just because he's worked with the team but i i don't know we'll see um uh but uh yeah i think the rest of the coaching staff in a lot of ways especially on the hitting side of things and uh yeah, I'm sorry.

I think Perry Hill needs to retire as well.

I mean, maybe it's going to be Tori, Tori Lovello, who I think is an interesting choice.

There are a bunch of other Rocco Baldelli and Christopher Negron.

They're going to be a lot of guys that I'm sure they will talk to.

Maybe Steven Vogt says, hey, I want out of Cleveland and I really want to come and live near home.

... to come in here and, and do that.

Christopher Negron, I've seen that name a few times.

Uh, obviously, he has the experience here.

Young person, been around the game here for a while, both in Seattle and elsewhere.