Jason A. Churchill has a very informative post over at Prospect Insider.  Follow the league for all the details, but here’s the recap: RHRP Austin Bibens-Dirkx has been released.  ABD was a cult favorite and a genuinely nice guy from the Pacific Northwest.  We was on the fast track to the big leagues before the [...]

Another quick blurb.  I keep reading that RHRP Jesus Delgado is out of options and needs to make the 25-man roster in order to avoid being placed on the waiver wire.  This makes perfect sense, since Seattle acquired him via waivers, but it hadn’t occurred to me for some reason. So, you’ve got to wonder [...]

I’ve been under the assumption that Miguel Batista is going to make the ballclub because of the money owed to him.  He’d still have a short leash, but at least they’d try him out.  I’m starting to wonder if that is incorrect, however. Chris Jakubauskas is still around, and I can’t imagine why unless they [...]

Seattle has signed 3B/C Choi Ji-man out of Korea.  I don’t know anything about this guy but thought it was noteworthy because there were rumblings a little while ago that the Mariners were going to start shifting their scouting focus from Latin America to the United States and Asia under Jack Zduriencik’s reign.  I’m not [...]

After all of the big developments today, this is what I think the roster will look like come Opening Day. Starting Rotation: Felix Hernandez, R Erik Bedard, L Jarrod Washburn, L Carlos Silva, R Ryan Rowland-Smith, L Bullpen: CL: Brandon Morrow, R SU: David Aardsma, R SU: Roy Corcoran, R MR: Mark Lowe, R MR: [...]