Felix Hernandez has been placed on the 15-day disabled list retroactive to his collision with Carlos Beltran in New York. He will be available on July 9th at the earliest. This move wasn’t made because Felix’s injury turned out worse than expected, but mainly because the team is in desperate need of some arms. Cesar [...]

A while back there was some talk about bringing Ken Griffey Jr. back to Seattle.  The logic was that he would slightly improve the offense (even during the worst year of his career) and would help curb Seattle’s slumping attendance. Well, Griffey continues to struggle this season and the Mariners have decided not to pursue [...]

As the trading deadline approaches the Seattle Mariners’ front office should be looking towards the future. Instead of having one megapost about all the players that are potentially on the trading block, I decided it would be best to go one player at a time. When a team begins rebuilding you don’t expect to see [...]

As if the boatloads of young talent received in recent trades wasn’t enough, the rival Oakland A’s made another upgrade by signing super-prospect Michel Inoa with a record breaking $4.25M signing bonus. Oakland is already winning with what they have on the field right now, and I’ve already mentioned how nervous their minor league system [...]

A Seattle Mariners fire sale is expected before the July 31st trade deadline.  Most of the young nuclease should be protected– Felix, Betancourt, Clement, Balentien, Morrow, Lopez, etc– and some believe all of the veteran players should be made available, including Ichiro Suzuki. That isn’t the case, according to Sports Illustrated’s Jon Heyman.  He wrote [...]