SODO MOJO
FanSided

Mark Lowe Drawing Trade Interest

By Brady Farkas

facebooktwitterreddit

It’s 7:45 a.m. here on the East Coast, and the trade deadline continues to rapidly approach. For the Mariners, I don’t think a lot will happen. Austin Jackson trade? Maybe. Hisashi Iwakuma? Maybe. But one Mariner who could be traded….

Mark Lowe, along with Carson Smith and Charlie Furbush, provide the Mariners their only consistent relievers in 2015. So, I’d be sad to see Mark Lowe go. But at the same time, if Lowe does get traded, I hope he gets a chance to play in October.

Lowe was a Mariner from 2006-2010, during the true franchise dark ages. He was good in 2006, pitching to a 1.93 ERA in just over 18 innings. In 2007, he missed nearly the whole season. In 08-09, he wasn’t really all that good. But I’ve always liked him. He was traded to Texas in 2010.

He threw hard, he had a great slider. After he left the M’s, he fell into relative anonymity. Three innings for the ’10 Rangers. Forty-Five the next year. Thirty-nine in 2012. In 2013 and 14, he totaled fewer than 20 innings with the Angels and Indians.

And this year, he’s back. He’s been dominant. A 1.00 ERA in 36 innings. Forty-seven strikeouts. That’s what we were expecting this season from Danny Farquhar, Dominic Leone, Yoervis Medina, or any of the Mariner arms that made the 2014 bullpen so good.

But it hasn’t been them. It’s been Mark Lowe. He’s been useful to the Mariners out of the ‘pen this year and he can be useful as a trade chip today.

We’ll see if the M’s do anything.

Go M’s!

More from SoDo Mojo

Next: Mariners Promoting Top Prospect

Home/Mariners Rumors