Eddie Bajek, the Detroit Tigers Thoughts writer responsible for reverse engineering the Elias free agent rankings, has published an up to date report of where things stand that can be found here. There is no guarentee that Eddie is 100% right, but he’s at least very very close, so these rankings should give us a [...]

The 2009 Futures Game rosters were released today, and two Seattle Mariner farmhands have found their way onto the World roster: 3B Alex Liddi of Italy and OF Tyson Gillies of Canada. Not the greatest representation– a couple of A-ballers with inflated High Desert/Cal League numbers– but good to see nonetheless.

Yuniesky Betancourt tweaked his lower hamstring early into tonight’s ballgame then went on to aggravate it late and in a big way.  Geoff Baker reports that he’ll likely hit the DL tomorrow, having Jose Lopez take his roster spot. Assuming that’s the plan, Seattle will continue to roster both Chris Woodward and Josh Wilson.  Ronny [...]

We heard a few days ago that Adrian Beltre “jammed” his surgically repaired right shoulder while diving for a ball.  This caused him to have a “stiff” shoulder for a couple of days. More details today, courtesy of the News Tribune’s Larry LaRue.  It’s a short post so head over and read it, but basically [...]

The next two weeks are going to be HUGE for the Seattle Mariners franchise, both in terms of 2009 and the future of the organization. Seattle is currently 2.5 games back of the Angels.  The two remaining games against those hated Padre rivals will be a good opportunity to close the gap, but the three [...]