The Mariners announced today that they have claimed LHP Tayler Saucedo off waivers from the Mets. To make room for Saucedo, the Mariners DFA’d J.B. Bukauskas, who they’d just picked up a couple of weeks ago. And just after I learned how to spell “Bukauskas,” too.
Saucedo, 29, was born in Honolulu but moved to Washington and attended Tahoma High School in Maple Valley. He was drafted by the Blue Jays in the 21st round of the 2015 draft, spending his entire career in Toronto’s system before making his big-league debut in 2021. He was DFA’d during the off-season and picked up by the Mets, who then DFA’d him to make room for Tommy Pham, at which point the Mariners picked him up.