Seattle saving their best pitcher for the final lap, is calling up top prospect Kade Anderson from Double-A. The Athletic recently ranked Kade Anderson as the No. 1 prospect in baseball.
Kade is the best pitcher in the minors.
In 18 starts, Anderson owns a 1.06 ERA with a 41% strikeout rate. He has the best strikeout rate and ERA among all minor league pitchers with at least 80 innings, 4 straight scoreless starts, opposing batters hitting .147/.183/.216 slash line in 333 plate appearances—they needn’t even bother bringing their bats to the box. Seymour Skinner pathetic.
[RELATED: Yankees Rookie So Unbelievably Nice With It, Mariners Rookie Loses His Job]Kade joins a crowded 6-man rotation alongside Logan Gilbert, Bryan Woo, George Kirby, Bryce Miller and Emmerson Hancock, full of guys holding their arms intact, praying they won’t fall off—a 4.46 ERA since the All-Star Break, the 8th-worst in the Bigs. George Kirby just got dogwalked by the Brewers, 6 runs in 3 and a third. (Seattle lost 22-0. Yuck)
Allowing each starter an extra day’s rest, the neophyte’s Spring energy greasing the aching joints of his mates—Kade Anderson may revive a rotation that ought to be dominant. Seattle’s still in the playoff race.
Personally, I would’ve hit the “call up the best pitcher we have” button before college freshmen move-in weekend but Mariners President of Baseball Operations Jerry Dipoto gets paid the big dollars and I have to choose which 2 of the 3 meals I can afford to eat today.
How’d Kade Anderson do in his MLB debut?
The Seattle Mariners beat the Chicago Cubs 5-4 Saturday thanks to a Randy Arozerona walk-off 2-run homer to dead center off Cubs closer Jacob Webb.
22-year-old and 3rd overall pick in the 2025 MLB Draft, Kade Anderson, 5 hits, 3 earned runs (2 homers), 5 Ks and 2 walks in 5 2/3 innings, did his thing. Not a perfect debut but his team got the dub and Alex Bregman refuses to stop hitting homers right now. Nothing Kade could do about that.
It may take a few starts for Kade to become acclimated to the Majors, skipping Triple-A to be thrust in the midst of a playoff race against one of the best teams in the sport.
If only Kade could take Cal Raleigh’s at-bats too.
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