Mariners attain 3-year extension with utilityman Dylan Moore

Superutilityman Dylan Moore and the Seattle Mariners agreed on a three-year, $8.875 million contract extension Wednesday, sources instructed ESPN, maintaining the multiposition sparkplug within the metropolis the place he broke into the massive leagues.

Moore, 30, had bounced round from Texas to Atlanta to Milwaukee earlier than signing with Seattle in 2018 as a minor league free agent. He debuted a yr later and over the past 4 seasons has hit .208/.317/.384 whereas taking part in each place however catcher.

The deal, which doesn’t embrace any choices and has escalators to take its whole worth to greater than $9 million, allowed Moore and the workforce to keep away from an arbitration listening to. Moore was looking for a $2.25 million wage, and the Mariners had been providing $1.9 million.

Seattle purchased out the ultimate two years of arbitration in addition to a free agent yr for Moore, who over his first 4 years made simply shy of $3 million. Whereas Moore shouldn’t be a daily, he began 64 video games and performed in 104 for the Mariners final season, spending most of his time within the outfield and at shortstop.

Earlier within the day, Seattle won its first arbitration hearing of the winter, beating reliever Diego Castillo. The one unsettled case for Seattle entails their greatest acquisition of the offseason, outfielder Teoscar Hernández, who arrived in a commerce for his final season earlier than free company.

Over his 381 profession video games, Moore has hit 35 residence runs, pushed in 112 runs, scored 140 and stolen 65 bases in 92 tries. His greatest full season got here in 2022, when he batted .224/.368/.385 with six residence runs, 24 RBIs, 41 runs, 21 stolen bases and an adjusted OPS 22% higher than league-average.