Mariners' Bryan Woo, Logan Gilbert present new contract direction for Seattle

The Seattle Mariners have so far devoted their future money on one side of the ball.

Their best young hitters have gotten contract extensions. Their best young pitchers, not yet.

There's still time. Logan Gilbert is the first of the young aces to reach the end of his deal, and that's still two seasons that he has to pitch for the Mariners before decision time.

After that is Bryan Woo, who is under contract through 2029.

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MLB.com's Mark Feinsand wrote a new article on Thursday that breaks down some of the key extension decisions across MLB. He doesn't think Seattle is necessarily going to do a new contract with these pitchers soon, but he breaks down what they have to consider.

"The Mariners have three of their everyday players -- Julio Rodríguez, Cal Raleigh and Josh Naylor -- signed through at least 2030, but Seattle has yet to extend any members of its young, talented pitching staff," Feinsand writes. "Woo is still four years away from free agency, but after posting an All-Star season in 2025 that earned him a fifth-place finish in AL Cy Young voting, the right-hander could be a prime candidate for an extension. Gilbert, who was an All-Star and finished sixth in Cy Young voting in 2024, is two years away from free agency, the closest of any of the Mariners’ young starters."

Seattle's pitching flies just a bit under the radar. The likes of Cal Raleigh and Julio Rodriguez are known throughout baseball. Gilbert and Woo? Not quite as much, although they started to get into the spotlight in the postseason in 2025.

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It's the kind of rotation that, if healthy, can win a World Series. Seattle has enough talented arms for every game in a given series. They don't need to go with a bullpen game. They've got all the ability they need right in the rotation.

Depending on how the next couple years go, the Mariners could decide to get all these pitchers locked up long term. It could be quite the fruitful era in the Pacific Northwest.

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