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Mariners Outright Casey Lawrence

By Steve Adams | May 23, 2025 at 2:02pm CDT

The Mariners announced Friday that right-hander Casey Lawrence again passed through waivers following a recent DFA. He’s been assigned outright to Triple-A Tacoma.

Lawrence has the right to reject the assignment and elect free agency, although at this point, whether he chooses to do so seemingly has little bearing on his future with the organization. Lawrence has been designated for assignment by Seattle a whopping four times in the past six weeks — plus another time by the Blue Jays, who briefly claimed him from Seattle. (He elected free agency following that DFA and re-signed with the Mariners.) Each time, he’s returned to the Mariners.

In 2025 alone, Lawrence has had four stints with the Mariners, and there’s little reason to think it’ll stop there. He appears perfectly content to function as an effective 41st player on the 40-man roster, being selected to the roster whenever the big league club needs some extra length in the bullpen and then quickly being placed on waivers. The 37-year-old righty clearly has a good relationship with the organization and is comfortable in the Tacoma area, which is no surprise given that he also spent the entire 2024 season pitching for the Mariners’ Triple-A squad there.

Lawrence has pitched in six MLB games this year — five with Seattle, one with Toronto — and eaten up 17 2/3 innings in a long relief role. He’s logged a 4.08 ERA in that time, including a flat 3.00 mark in his 15 frames as a Mariner. He’s averaging just 88 mph on his fastball and carries a minuscule 8.8% strikeout rate, but Lawrence has also walked only one of the 80 men he’s faced (1.3%).

It’s not the smoothest way to earn a living, but by my count he’s picked up 23 days of major league service time this year. Even with a league-minimum split on the contracts he’s signing — and the Mariners are presumably compensating him a bit better than that — he’d have already earned a bit more than $96K in just big league salary, before factoring in any minor league pay. Assuming he has several more stints of this nature ahead of him, he’ll take home a fair bit more cash in 2025 than your standard mid-30s journeyman on the fringes of big league rosters, however unorthodox the road to that endgame may be.

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  1. Steinbrenner2728

    5 months ago

    Another day, another Casey Lawrence article. (Hi, Jerry Dipoto! If you’re seeing this)

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    • TheOtherMikeD

      5 months ago

      The mighty Casey is out (again).

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  2. huskydon

    5 months ago

    Wait a minute, didn’t I read this article before?

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  3. fenwayfrank

    5 months ago

    This routine by MLB teams is absolutely ridiculous and is mind numbing the number of times teams do this with players. It seems Jesse Chavez goes through this 5-6 times a year as well.
    Talk about living out of a suitcase!

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  4. deepseamonster32

    5 months ago

    M’s and Casey Lawrence aiming to set a record nobody will be able to break.

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  5. chrisjaybecker

    5 months ago

    There’s a revolving door at T-Mobile with Casey Lawrence‘s name on it.

    Reply
  6. Zippy the Pinhead

    5 months ago

    No one’s ever told this Casey to watch his speed.

    Reply
  7. Flanster

    5 months ago

    Of course,they did

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