Mariners To Select Nick Davila

The Mariners are selecting right-hander Nick Davila‘s contract from Double-A Arkansas, the New York Post’s Joel Sherman reports.  The corresponding 26-man roster move isn’t yet known, and the M’s have an open spot on their 40-man roster.

The 27-year-old Davila will be making his big league debut whenever he appears in a game.  It is a little unusual to see a team promote a player from Double-A rather than Triple-A, but it could be that the Mariners are particularly intrigued by Davila’s red-hot start to the season.  Davila has a 2.00 ERA, a 29.4% strikeout rate, and eye-popping walk (2.9%) and grounder (69.6%) rates over nine relief outings in Arkansas this season.

It’s a small sample size, and obviously facing MLB hitters is a much taller order than Double-A competition.  But, Davila has shown good control in the past, and he has shown flashes of his ability to miss bats.  Even if the Mariners might just be calling on Davila to be a fresh arm in the bullpen for a few days, it’s still a career milestone for the right-hander and an opportunity to show what he can do during what might be a cup of coffee-type of promotion.

Davila began his career as an undrafted free agent with the Tigers in 2020, though Davila would surely have been drafted if the pandemic-shortened 2020 draft had been longer than only five rounds.  Davila has been pitched in Seattle’s farm system for the last four seasons, and his 18 2/3 innings with Tacoma in 2023 represents his only taste of Triple-A ball.  Injuries sidelined him for most of the 2024 campaign, but Davila returned to post a 3.55 ERA over 50 2/3 Double-A innings in 2025, though with a 10.1% walk rate and only an 18.3K%.