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• Mitch Garver: Mutual option declined

  11/03/2025 • By RotoWire

  Garver will become a free agent after the Mariners declined the $12 million mutual option in his contract Sunday. Garver will be paid a $1 million buyout and enter the free-agent market. The 34-year-old slashed only .187/.290/.341 across 201 regular-season games during his two seasons in Seattle. Garver is a career .255/.358/.474 hitter against left-handed pitching, so he should be able to land a job as a short-side platoon bat this winter.

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• Mariners' Mitch Garver: Added to Thursday's lineup

  09/26/2025 • By RotoWire

  Garver will start at catcher and hit eighth in Thursday's game against the Rockies. Garver wasn't in the Mariners' original lineup, but Leo Rivas was scratched for undisclosed reasons. The team shifted its defensive alignment, with Garver being the new addition to the lineup for his first start in the last three games.

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• Mariners' Mitch Garver: Restores lead with homer

  09/13/2025 • By RotoWire

  Garver went 1-for-3 with a solo home run in Friday's 2-1 win over the Angels. The Angels tied the game at 1-1 in the top of the seventh inning, but Garver restored the Mariners' lead in their half of the frame. This was his ninth homer of the year and his first since Aug. 18 versus the Phillies. The veteran catcher is at a .212/.301/.356 slash line with 29 RBI, 27 runs scored and three stolen bases over 269 plate appearances this season. Garver is seeing steady usage in a short-side platoon role between catcher and designated hitter.

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• Mariners' Mitch Garver: Playing time on upswing

  08/24/2025 • By RotoWire

  Garver will start at designated hitter and bat sixth in Sunday's game against the Athletics. Garver will stay in the lineup for the fifth time in six games, but his uptick in playing time has mostly been a byproduct of Seattle facing five left-handed starting pitchers during that stretch. The 34-year-old is slashing just .179/.263/.274 with a 33.9 percent strikeout rate over 118 plate appearances versus righties this season, so he doesn't have much of a case to move outside of his current short-side platoon role.

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• Mariners' Mitch Garver: Late add to lineup

  08/15/2025 • By RotoWire

  Garver will DH and bat sixth in Friday's game against the Mets. Garver was left off the first iteration of Seattle's lineup, but he'll step into the starting nine after Josh Naylor (undisclosed) was scratched. Garver is slashing .212/.301/.332 in 219 plate appearances this season.

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