Last night I dreamt that there was a winterball league in which MLB organizations fielded teams comprised of their best prospects, regardless of level, playing a short season in the southern states. I woke up thinking that this would be a really cool idea.  Instead of having your prospects scattered throughout the Caribbean, Arizona and [...]

I don’t plan on mentioning every single minor leaguer Seattle brings in, but that’s how it probably seems.  From here on out I’ll only be mentioning the notables. Seattle has apparently signed 1B/OF Javier Brito and OF Mel Stocker to minor league contracts. Stocker isn’t the notable one.  His ability to remain a professional baseball [...]

A bit early, but Happy Thanksgiving to all of you out there. A big thank you to all of you that frequent this site every day, and an extra big thank you to those of you anchoring the growing BBT community.  It’s the comments and debate that follow each post that make this whole project [...]

The Seattle Mariners are on the verge of signing (or have already signed) Callix Crabbe, according to an unconfirmed source.  It is currently unknown whether this is a minor league, major league or split contract. I have briefly mentioned Crabbe as a minor league free agent Seattle could take a look at to fill the [...]

The Arizona Fall League came to a close a couple days ago.  Here is how some Mariner prospects came out. Winners: Carlos Triunfel: Seattle’s top prospect ended an up and down stint in the AFL with a .298/.339/.394 final line in 104 at bats.  This is very encouraging, considering that the AFL is advanced ballplayers [...]

The consensus is that Kenji Johjima is an untradeable player.  I mostly agree, but I think there might be a few matches out there in which a bad contract swap could make sense.  One of them is with the Boston Red Sox. The Boston Herald’s Michael Silverman briefly mentioned in an article today that Seattle [...]

There are nearly 600 minor league free agents this offseason.  Most of them can be categorized as roster filler, but there are always a few diamonds in the rough.  Here is a small list of players that could help Seattle in 2009.  Obviously there are tons of players that could contribute later on down the [...]

New manager Don Wakamatsu has continued GM Jack Zduriencik’s revamping of the organization as Mel Stottlemyre and Lee Elia have been dismissed.  Stottlemyre was the pitching coach and Elia served in three different capacities in 2008, including special assistant, hitting coach and bench coach.  Sam Perlozzo, Eddie Rodriguez and Jim Riggleman have already been taken [...]