Seattle Mariners player ratings in MLB The Show 20

Baseball may be on pause in the real world, but that hasn’t stopped Sony Interactive Entertainment from releasing the latest iteration of their popular MLB The Show franchise.

While reported COVID-19 cases have been limited in the province of Ontario thus far, I really didn’t want to leave the house today. For whatever reason, Amazon Canada didn’t have a pre-order listing for MLB The Show 20, so I bundled up and dragged myself to an EB Games and have finally gotten my hands on the game. The withdrawals of Seattle Mariners baseball, for better or worse, have become too much and I needed my fix. Now back to quarantining I go.

I popped the disc into my PlayStation 4 and, as I awaited the game to install, it dropped me into a World Series rematch between the Washing Nationals and Houston Astros, giving me control of the defending champions and their ace, Stephen Strasburg. So, of course, I did what must be done and gave a virtual George Springer a not-so-friendly ‘hello’ with my first pitch.

Astros-bashing aside, we’re going to be producing a lot of MLB The Show 20 content as we await the eventual start of the 2020 MLB season. Right now, we’re going to look at the player ratings for the Seattle Mariners and see how the folks at San Diego Studio feel about our boys in the navy and teal.

Coming in as the Mariners’ top-rated player following a breakout 2019 campaign is catcher Tom Murphy, who’s been given an overall rating of 82. Behind him are a pair of 78 overalls in outfielder Mitch Haniger and third baseman Kyle Seager. The remainder of the Mariners’ 40-man player ratings shake out as follows:

Dee Gordon – 77 overall
Austin Nola – 75
Marco Gonzales – 74
Carl Edwards Jr. – 73
Daniel Vogelbach – 73
Yoshihisa Hirano – 72
Austin Adams – 71
Mallex Smith – 71
Taijuan Walker – 71
Dylan Moore – 70
Sam Tuivailala – 70
Patrick Wisdom – 69
Dan Altavilla – 69
Tim Lopes – 68
Donovan Walton – 68
Taylor Williams – 68
Brandon Brennan – 67
Matt Magill – 67
Braden Bishop – 66
Sam Haggerty – 66
Shed Long – 66
Evan White – 66
J.P. Crawford – 65
Connor Sadzeck – 65
Nestor Cortes Jr. – 64
Yusei Kikuchi – 64
Nick Margevicius – 62
Erik Swanson – 26
Justus Sheffield – 61
Justin Dunn – 58
Kyle Lewis – 57
Yohan Ramirez – 57
Art Warren – 55
Gerson Bautista – 53
Taylor Guilbeau – 48

As you can probably tell, these ratings are all over the place. That becomes more apparent when you take a deeper look at the Mariners’ minor leaguers, which features Dom Thompson-Williams (listed as ‘Dom T-Williams’) and Jake Scheiner as the organization’s top-rated youngsters at 72 and 70 overall, respectively.

That puts them far ahead of Jarred Kelenic (65), Logan Gilbert (65), and Julio Rodriguez (63), to name a few, as well as some of the team’s key major league pieces. With all due respect to Thompson-Williams and Scheiner, this makes absolutely no sense and the lack of research and effort put into these ratings is incredibly underwhelming and disappointing. Hopefully this will be rectified in future updates.

That said, I’m still looking forward to diving deeper into the game and providing more Mariners-related content with it. In case you missed it, we’ll be streaming CPU vs. CPU simulated Mariners games on Twitch starting tonight, with roster and in-game decisions made by you, the readers/viewers. Give us a follow on there and be sure to keep an eye on our Twitter for streaming details later tonight!