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SEA • Catcher • #29
about 18 hours ago
Raleigh homered off Aaron Civale in the fifth. He also had one of the four Mariners’ singles off Joel Kuhnel in the bottom of the ninth and scored the winning run when Josh Naylor walked it off. Raleigh has homered in three straight games, and his five hits the last two days has raised his average to .198.
SEA • Catcher • #29
1 day ago
Raleigh knocked a base hit in the third inning, then took Jacob Lopez deep for a solo homer in the fifth. It was the fourth home run of the season for the 29-year-old slugger. He’s gotten off to a slow start, slashing .177/.266/.333 with the four homers and 13 RBI across 109 plate appearances.
SEA • Catcher • #29
3 days ago
Raleigh socked his third homer of the season with an opposite-field shot to give the Mariners a 1-0 lead in the first. At this point last year, the 29-year-old had eight homers on the season, and it’s fair to say that he has not come close to living up to expectations over the first three weeks. Fortunately, there’s a lot more baseball left, and a lot of thump in Raleigh’s switch-hitting bat.
SEA • Catcher • #29
12 days ago
Raleigh also drove in a run on a sacrifice fly for a three-RBI night. The 29-year-old backstop has “only” homered twice this year, and is well off the 60-homer mark he reached last year. Expect plenty more roundtrippers for Big Dumper going forward, and 40-plus homers are well within reason for a player with his pop.
SEA • Catcher • #29
17 days ago
After being robbed of his first homer of the season by Jo Adell on Saturday — one of three Adell took away in the game — Raleigh hit a no-doubter off Jacob deGrom in the first inning after a 12 pitch at-bat. The strikeouts have been an issue, but it’s far too early to panic from a player that has as much power as any hitter at the catching position. Don’t be surprised if Raleigh goes on a run over the coming weeks.
SEA • Catcher • #29
22 days ago
It was a quiet day for the Mariners offense as Raleigh’s two-run single in the eighth inning was the extent of their offensive output as Cam Schlittler shut them down. Regardless, it feels good to see a few go through for Raleigh after his dreadful start to the season. Here’s to hoping his walk-off knock from Tuesday night got him off the schneid. Yet, his two strikeouts from this game brought his total to 15 on the season in just seven games. That’s good for an unsightly 54% strikeout rate, the highest among any full-time player to this point.
SEA • Catcher • #29
23 days ago
Raleigh is back in Seattle’s lineup after coming off the bench to deliver a walk-off single in the bottom of the ninth inning during Monday’s series opener. The hope for fantasy managers is that the 29-year-old’s heroics help jump-start his potent bat following an icy-cold stretch at the outset of the regular season.
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SEA • Catcher • #29
24 days ago
Raleigh was given a day off initially, but he came off the bench to deliver his best moment of the young season. He laced an inside fastball from Paul Blackburn with a runner on third into right, and it gave Seattle a 2-1 lead. Raleigh has gotten off to a slow start, but it’s far too early to panic, and Monday is an example of what the man they call Big Dumper can do.
SEA • Catcher • #29
24 days ago
Raleigh will get a chance to reset mentally, instead of facing Yankees southpaw Ryan Weathers, after going an ice-cold 2-for-15 with one RBI and 10 strikeouts during a four-game series against the Guardians to open the regular season. There are obviously zero concerns fantasy-wise when it comes to the 29-year-old slugging backstop on the heels of a 60-homer campaign where he rewrote the offensive record book for catchers. It’s only a matter of time before he heats up. It’ll be Mitch Garver handling the catching duties on Monday night in his place.
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SEA • Catcher • #29
25 days ago
Raleigh is just 1-for-13 to open the season, and the Mariners, as a dome team without the requirement of that post-Opening Day day off, are in the midst of playing seven straight games without a break. A typical catcher would surely be due for a day off by this point, Raleigh, though, is not the typical catcher, so Mitch Garver is still waiting for his first start of the year.
SEA • Catcher • #29
about 1 month ago
The double, which was crushed to center at 109.4 mph, would have been a grand slam most everywhere other than Hohokam Stadium. Obviously, the rest of the at-bats weren’t great, and some might be a little worried after his poor WBC showing in which he was supplanted by Will Smith behind the plate. Still, while his current ADP is too high for our tastes, there’s no good reason to put any stock in the events of the last two weeks.
SEA • Catcher • #29
about 2 months ago
Raleigh smacked the first of three straight doubles off of Joey Cantillo in the opening inning and scored the game’s first run on an RBI two-bagger off the bat of Julio Rodriguez. The hard-hitting backstop then drove in a run with a sacrifice fly in the second inning and plated another with an RBI double of his own in the fourth. He’s poised for another monster all-around season at the plate and should rightfully be the first catcher off the board in all fantasy drafts this spring.
SEA • Catcher • #29
about 2 months ago
Raleigh took White Sox reliever Wikelman González deep to left-center field in the third inning for his first big fly of the spring. The 29-year-old slugging backstop is due for some obvious regression after delivering a historic 60-homer campaign last year that shattered just about every offensive record for a full-time catcher. He’ll come off the board in the second round of every fantasy draft this spring as a true difference-maker at one of the weaker positions in the landscape.
SEA • Catcher • #29
6 months ago
It looked like Raleigh was going to get his signature October moment when he took Blue Jays workhorse reliever Louis Varland deep in the fifth inning to extend Seattle’s lead to 3-1 at the time. It was his fifth round-tripper of the postseason. Unfortunately, the Mariners’ bullpen was unable to preserve the lead and Raleigh was left in the on-deck circle when teammate Julio Rodríguez went down swinging in the ninth inning to end the series. It was a gut-wrenching loss for the Mariners as they fall just shy of making the World Series for the first time in the franchise’s 49-year history.
SEA • Catcher • #29
6 months ago
Well, hopefully he got all of that out of his system. Raleigh’s one instance of contact was the double play ball with the bases loaded on the first pitch of his at-bat against Trey Yesavage in the third. It was his first GIDP of the postseason and his first ever with the bases loaded since he debuted in 2021.
SEA • Catcher • #29
6 months ago
With the Mariners in danger of falling 3-2, Raleigh dumped a pitch from Brendon Little into the left field bleachers to tie the game. Seattle ended up scoring the next four on a Eugenio Suárez grand slam, and it gives Seattle the one-game cushion in the series. A chance for Raleigh to add to his postseason homer total — four so far — and a chance to clinch a trip to the World Series comes Sunday in Toronto.
SEA • Catcher • #29
6 months ago
Even in a game where the Mariners were hammered, Raleigh was able to hit another bomb; his second of the ALCS and third of the postseason. He just needed to hit nine more of them and the Mariners woulda tied it up. Raleigh will assuredly hit second and be behind the plate for Game 4 of the ALCS on Thursday.
SEA • Catcher • #29
6 months ago
That’s 62 homers on the year for Raleigh, who put the Mariners on the board by homering off Kevin Gausman in the sixth. The subsequent runs came on singles from Jorge Polanco in the sixth and eighth. Raleigh is 10-for-25 with five RBI and four walks through six postseason games. Game 2 of the ALCS will be played Monday. The Mariners announced Logan Gilbert as their Game 2 starter, picking him over Luis Castillo. Trey Yesavage will get the ball for Toronto.
SEA • Catcher • #29
7 months ago
Eugenio Suárez and J.P. Crawford also homered in support of Logan Gilbert. Raleigh’s first hit made it a 4-0 game in the fourth, and he added insurance with his two-run blast in the ninth. It was his second homer in eight career postseason games. The Mariners will try to finish off the Tigers on Wednesday, though they’ve yet to announce whether Bryce Miller or someone else will start. Casey Mize will get the ball for Detroit.
SEA • Catcher • #29
7 months ago
Raleigh needed to homer twice to tie Aaron Judge’s record, and he was unable to reach that mark. He still got on twice to finish his regular season with a .247/.359/.589 slash along with 60 homers in one of the greatest campaigns we’ve seen from a catcher. He’ll battle Aaron Judge for the MVP in November, but he’ll lead Seattle into the ALDS against the Tigers or Guardians on Saturday.
SEA • Catcher • #29
7 months ago
Raleigh’s 60th was anticlimactic, coming in the eighth inning with the Mariners up 8-1, but that’s just fine. It’s the 10th 60-homer season in MLB history, as he joins Babe Ruth, Roger Maris, Mark McGwire (twice), Sammy Sosa (three times), Barry Bonds and Aaron Judge on the list of players to pull it off. He also tonight became the first catcher to reach 125 RBI since Johnny Bench in 1974. He’s the first Mariner to reach that mark since Aaron Boone in 2001. That year was also the last in which the Mariners won the AL West. They’d made it to the playoffs just once since, winning a Wild Card series before getting swept in the ALDS in 2022.
SEA • Catcher • #29
7 months ago
The 28-year-old slugger victimized Astros’ right-hander Jason Alexander for his 351-foot (107.6 mph EV) two-run shot in the second inning that increased the M’s early lead to 7-0. Raleigh struck out in each of his other three at-bats in the ballgame, finishing the night 1-for-4. He’s now slashing .247/.360/.589 with 58 homers, 121 RBI, 107 runs scored and 14 stolen bases in what will likely go down as the best offensive season for a catcher in MLB history.
SEA • Catcher • #29
7 months ago
Raleigh victimized Astros right-hander Jason Alexander for his 351-foot (107.6 mph EV) two-run shot in the second inning that increased the Seattle’s early lead to a commanding 7-0 margin. The 28-year-old slugger struck out in each of his other three at-bats in the ballgame, finishing the night 1-for-4. He’s now slashing .247/.360/.589 with 58 homers, 121 RBI, 107 runs scored and 14 stolen bases in what will likely go down as the best offensive season for a catcher in major-league history.
SEA • Catcher • #29
7 months ago
No. 57 moves him past Ken Griffey Jr. for the Mariners’ franchise record. Seattle is now two games up in the AL West. Raleigh’s two runs scored tonight put hm at 106, which is tied for the 10th-highest total ever among players to start at catcher the majority of the time. Mickey Cochrane has the record at 118. Ivan Rodriguez got to 116 twice in 1996 and 1999. The high total since then was 112 from Jason Kendall in 2000.
SEA • Catcher • #29
7 months ago
Raleigh’s first homer gave him the major league record for a switch-hitter, breaking Mickey Mantle’s mark of 54 from 1961. His second tied Ken Griffey Jr.'s Mariners franchise record, which he set in 1997 and equaled a year later. While he was still hitting for power, Raleigh batted just .183 between July and August, harming his MVP case. However, he’s come in at .309 with six homers and an 11/11 K/BB through 14 games this month. He’s batting .247/.361/.590 for the season.
SEA • Catcher • #29
7 months ago
Raleigh gave the M’s an early 2-0 lead with his 409-foot (109.4 mph EV) two-run blast off of Kyle Hendricks before an out had been recorded in the home half of the first inning. He also singled in the third and scored on an RBI double by Julio Rodriguez. The 28-year-old backstop also walked in the fourth and scored on a two-run knock off the bat of Josh Naylor. He’s now tied with Mickey Mantle for the most home runs in a single season by a switch-hitter in MLB history. Raleigh is slashing .244/.359/.577 with 54 homers, 115 RBI and 14 stolen bases in what has been an MVP-caliber season for the M’s.
SEA • Catcher • #29
8 months ago
Raleigh’s homer ties him with Mickey Mantle for the second-most homers by a switch-hitter with 52, and he’s two behind the Yankees legend for the all-time record. He also drew a walk and scored another run. Calling this a special season from Raleigh is quite the understatement, and he still has 20 more games to add to his accomplishments.
SEA • Catcher • #29
8 months ago
The 28-year-old slugger victimized Rays’ right-hander Drew Rasmussen for a 371-foot (102.9 mph EV) solo shot in the fourth inning to get the Mariners on the board. That would be his only hit in five at-bats on the evening. The Big Dumper is now slashing .242/.352/.581 with a league-leading 51 long balls, 108 RBI and 14 stolen bases in what’s shaping up to be an MVP-caliber season.
SEA • Catcher • #29
8 months ago
With the homer, Raleigh is now the first ever catcher to hit 50 homers in a season. It came in the first inning off JP Sears, and it was the 20th that Raleigh has hit from the right side. The 28-year-old is right in the thick of the MVP race with the aforementioned roundtrippers, 107 RBI and a .949 OPS. Aaron Judge went 1-for-4 with a run scored and an RBI, just in case you were curious.
SEA • Catcher • #29
8 months ago
Raleigh tied the MLB record for most home runs in a season by a catcher with his 448-foot (110.9 mph EV) two-run moonshot off of Jacob Lopez in the first inning. He then broke the record with a 412-foot (106.9 mph EV) two-run shot in the second inning that extended the Mariners’ early lead to 5-1. The 28-year-old backstop is having a remarkable season at the plate, slashing .247/.353/.593 with the aforementioned 49 home runs, 106 RBI and 14 stolen bases.