Light The W: A Seattle Mariners Podcast

Today, Mahal profiles his top target this offseason for the Seattle Mariners. He explains why Donovan is a perfect fit in just about every way and why the Cardinals may decline to trade him or ask for an unreasonable price.

Mahal returns this week to talk Winter Meetings and the Draft Lottery. Pushing back the Brendan Donovan episode a few days, Mahal discusses what the Mariners could do 6 months from now with the third overall pick and the happenings around the league so far this week.

Today, Mahal returns for Episode 49 as the offseason begins to share his plan for the offseason and preview the offseason.

Eli Herst, a top high school prospect in the state of Washington and nationally in the class of 2026 and a recent Vanderbilt commit, joins the show to talk about himself as a pitcher, his arsenal, and his experience at the Prep Baseball All-American Game over the summer.

Today, Mahal returns to recap the 2024 season and preview the offseason. After reviewing the basic offseason points, Mahal closes out the episode, explaining why Jorge Polanco will not have his $12 million club option picked up.

Today, Mahal talks about where the Mariners are and how they look for the rest of 2024 and beyond. He then proceeds to preview the Yankees series this week and look forward to what expectations should be for this team.

Today, Mahal is back with an episode after some grueling Mariners losses against the Los Angeles Angels. Today he talks about the outlook for the rest of this year including going over the need for 1-run wins and extra-inning wins, Mahal also talks about the potential for prospect Cole Young's promotion to the big league club. Following that Mahal talks about the problems of T-Mobile Park incl...

Today Mahal reacts to Breaking News of the Seattle Mariners firing Scott Servais and hiring Dan Wilson.

Today Mahal goes off-script/off-note and explains his feelings around the current state of the Mariners and the Mariners organization.

Today, Mahal discusses the previous series with the Detroit Tigers and then previews game 3 of the Mets series while explaining his thoughts on why the Return of JROD is premature as well as the need and excitement for Troy Taylor.

Today, Mahal discusses the Mariners trade deadline and the recent series in Boston and previews the weekend series against the Phillies.

Mahal is finally back, and it is the All-Star Break! Your Mariners lead the AL West by 1.0 game and have just concluded the 2024 draft, drafting a switch pitcher out of Mississippi State and a prep arm in the second round. Mahal details these picks and then concludes with some deadline talk.

Today, Mahal discusses what he saw during the White Sox series and why he believes they need additional athleticism on the roster. Mahal then previews the weekend series against Texas before discussing injury news, why a big bat is needed, Josh Rojas, and Julio Rodriguez.

Today Mahal recaps the weekend series with the Royals and previews this week's series with the White Sox before explaining why Luis Robert is a fantastic target for the Mariners

Today Mahal talks about the Mariners weekend sweep of the Angels and profiles Brent Rooker as a trade target ahead of the Oakland series.

Today Mahal is back for the first time in a few weeks as he quickly recaps the series win over Houston. Following the recap Mahal talks about where the lineup is struggling including its tendency to expand the zone and miss pitches. Mahal then talks about Vladdy Jr as an option to trade for at the deadline and even proposes a trade. To close the episode out Mahal talks some Mariners with Jeff. Fro...

Today Mahal previews the Orioles series in a new way because nobody knows who is starting for the Orioles. After that Mahal recaps the KC series win at home and talks about some injury and bullpen concerns.

On today's episode Mahal previews the upcoming 3 game series with the Kansas City Royals and recaps the weekend series win over Oakland.

A First Postgame Episode of the year is hosted as always by Mahal as he recaps a game one loss full of bad vibes. Mahal also recaps the Mariners series win over the Houston Astros and Previews the Final 3 Games of the Series against Minnesota (21:30). Lastly Mahal talks about what Josh Rojas has done for the ballclub during his brilliant start to the season (41:15).