Cancel those tickets to Tacoma, Shannon Drayer is reporting via tweet that Ian Snell will start for the Mariners on Sunday, which was originally Jarrod Washburn’s day.  It was easy enough to connect the dots once today’s bullpen was announced, but the team tried to throw us off the trail by optioning him to AAA [...]

Jarrod Washburn as been sent out, but there is still a couple hours left until the deadline.  Is Jack Zduriencik done? I see some relievers moving.  David Aardsma, Mark Lowe, Sean White and Miguel Batista are all candidates to be dealt to contenders looking for some bullpen help.  Aardsma and Lowe could bring the best [...]

Mike Salk of 710 ESPN Radio has a pair of tweets and a blog post up saying that Jarrod Washburn has been dealt to the Detroit Tigers.  I haven’t seen it confirmed anywhere else yet. Update: FOX’s John Paul Morosi says the Mariners receive LHSP Luke French plus another prospect. Update: MLB Network says the [...]

Jim Moore describes his column over at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer website as “different, offbeat, unpredictable.”  I’m not a regular Moore reader, but it sounds like he’s trying to be edgy and sarcastic, which is fine.  But it’s my opinion that he crossed a line in his latest piece, a column that details Snell’s problems in [...]

The New York Yankees have been a potential landing spot for Jarrod Washburn since last season, and now with just 15 hours until the trade deadline we get this tweet from SI’s Jon Heyman: