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Michael Hobbs

Mariners To Acquire Michael Hobbs From Mets

By Nick Deeds | March 22, 2025 at 5:58pm CDT

A minor trade is in the works, as Will Sammon of The Athletic reported earlier this afternoon that the Mets are shipping minor league right-hander Michael Hobbs to Seattle in exchange for cash considerations.

Hobbs, 25, was selected by the Mets in the minor league phase of the Rule 5 draft back in December. A tenth-round pick by Los Angeles back in 2021, Hobbs spent his entire career in the Dodgers organization prior to being plucked from the minor leagues by the Mets back in December. Unlike a player selected in the major league phase of the Rule 5 draft, there are not specific roster rules that must be adhered to with a player drafted in the minor league phase, meaning Hobbs became a full member of the Mets organization without any real restrictions.

He’ll depart Queens without having so much as appeared in an official game, however, as he’s now ticketed for Seattle where he’ll likely serve as a depth option for the Mariners’ bullpen in Triple-A Tacoma. While Hobbs’s only pro experience to this point has come as a Dodger, his resume in the minors is fairly impressive. After struggling in an eight-game stint in the low minors during his draft year, Hobbs has looked good at the High-A and Double-A levels over the past three seasons with Los Angeles. Last year was particularly impressive, as he posted a 2.97 ERA in 57 2/3 innings of work across 42 appearances. He struck out 21.8% of opponents faced, and while a 12.6% walk rate leaves much to be desired a fantastic 52.7% groundball rate helps him keep the ball in the park and makes up for his lackluster strikeout-to-walk ratio.

With Hobbs now likely ticketed for his first taste of Triple-A action, it wouldn’t be a shock to see the right-hander make his big league debut with the Mariners at some point this year. With that being said, Cody Bolton, Hagen Danner, and Eduard Bazardo are among the relief arms who are likely to be ahead of Hobbs on the Mariners’ depth chart not expected to break camp with the club, suggesting he’ll need to make some noise in the minor leagues if he’s going to leapfrog those alternatives. Of course, the Mets were fairly deep in Triple-A relief depth themselves, with players like Kevin Herget, Huascar Brazoban, and Austin Warren ahead of Hobbs on the depth chart at the club’s Syracuse affiliate.

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