“Every day he would sit in the back of the room during my morning meeting and it looked like he was asleep. Saucedo is the one who came up with Gott’s nickname: “Blood Clot Gott,” because he “stops the bleeding.” Servais says “Sauce” has got a “fantastic personality,” but that it took a little while for Saucedo to feel comfortable enough to share it when he first joined the team in spring training. Me and a couple guys were out to dinner, trying to come up with nicknames for everybody, and I just blurted out ‘Big Loaf’ and everyone started laughing, so it stuck.” Justin Topa Stephen Brashear-USA TODAY Sports
“Honestly, I was delirious after a flight and somehow came up with that,” Speier says, laughing. Topa’s nickname-”Big Loaf”-is a trickier one to parse. Speier was in turn gifted the nickname “Lil” Unit” as a plus-velo lefty with a similar mop of dirty blonde hair, although at nearly a foot shorter than the venerable Randy, the “Lil” part of the nickname is doing a lot of heavy lifting there, maybe on purpose. Saucedo, in a nod to the more commonly used sobriquet “Sauce” and his Mexican heritage, is “Lil’ Queso.” Brash is “Lil’ Slab,” as in slab bacon, as in Canadian bacon (?). Sewald is “Big Hinge,” because he shuts the door. Speier is the chief nickname-giver, and has a clear pattern to his process. “I think I just rattled off one and everyone kind of loved it, so I was like, I guess I’ll just do everybody else, too.” Gabe Speier Photo by Liv Lyons/MLB Photos via Getty Images “The nickname thing is new,” says Gabe Speier. They’ve also bestowed nicknames on each other-or rather, had them bestowed on each other. Each reliever filters in and out during the day, but it’s not uncommon to see a cluster of the newer players joking around together. Murfee’s currently unused locker has created a spillover zone between Gott and Gabe Speier, another midseason addition, which is often occupied by Saucedo, who likes to be in the middle of everything, and the crew is rounded out by Matt Brash before things take a turn into position player territory. Trevor Gott has the next locker over, and has been granted rare control of the clubhouse sound system on back-to-back days: his outlaw country playlist, heavy on Cody Jinks, is a favorite with Cal Raleigh (and a certain crotchety beat writer who shall go unnamed). Justin Topa and Tayler Saucedo have the two lockers closest to the entrance (and closest to annoying media types), having not made the club out of spring training. The party starts at the bank of lockers on the left side just as you walk into the Mariners clubhouse. This group is led by four new faces to the ‘pen this year: lefties Gabe Speier and Tayler Saucedo, and righties Justin Topa and Trevor Gott a group Scott Servais has nicknamed “the Fearsome Foursome,” although that’s far from the only nickname this crew has.
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All bullpens are full of, to borrow a term, Weird Little Guys, but it’s remarkable how quickly the group in Seattle has gelled despite a significant amount of turnover and mainstays of last year’s ‘pen-Penn Murfee and Andrés Muñoz-currently on the IL. If you’ve hung out on the bullpen rail at T-Mobile Park this season, you might have witnessed some of the shenanigans that go on among Seattle’s good-natured group of relievers.
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