If anything has become clear during the Seattle Mariners' 2026 spring training experience, it's that everyone wants to see Kade Anderson and Ryan Sloan in the majors as soon as possible. Heck, even the brass has caught the Ander-Sloan Fever.
Even before spring training ramped up, farm director Justin Toole was out there broadcasting to expect Anderson sooner rather than later. And now GM Justin Hollander has upped the ante with a "Why not both?" bit on the left-handed Anderson and the right-handed Sloan.
“I don’t think it’s out of the question that those guys pitch in the big leagues this year," Hollander said in an interview with Brock and Salk of Seattle Sports, before hedging: "but I don’t want to make it sort of a self-fulfilling prophecy that they definitely are.