Photos stolen from a blog post by Matt Pittman. Follow the link for more photos as well as Matt’s notes on Ackley and his BP session.

While everyone loves players with a little bit of personality, I really liked what I heard from the press conference.  He’s quiet and serious, but he also came across very [...]

Dayton Moore became the Kansas City Royals GM early in the 2006 season.  That year the team went 62-100.  In 2007 and 2008 they managed records of 69-93 and 75-87, and currently sit at 50-80 this year.  The team has performed better than the Allard Baird teams that perennially lost 100 games, but everyone is [...]

Kirby Arnold is reporting that Brandon Morrow was pulled from his AAA start after 73 pitches because he was experiencing “a little tightness” in his throwing arm.
This is concerning because Morrow has dealt with this in the past.  You never like to see something keep flaring up.  Hopefully he can bounce back after a couple [...]

Russell Branyan’s back problems continue, and before today’s game he was placed on the 15-day DL with a herniated disk.  Chris Jakubauskas was recalled to take his roster spot.
As someone who has dealt with back issues for the past five years or so, I really feel for Branyan.  It’s a pretty helpless feeling.  One minute [...]

A couple days ago Jose Lopez had a career high 18 home runs, but none of them had reached the 400 foot mark.  Given that 25 of Russell Branyan’s 31 homers have traveled over 400 feet, Lopez’s 380 foot average makes his big home run total less impressive to say the least.
But on Wednesday evening [...]

Blue = Russell Branyan
Yellow = Jose Lopez*
Green = Franklin Gutierrez
Red = Ken Griffey
Purple = Ichiro
No real point to this– just interesting to look at.
*Hit Tracker doesn’t have Lopez’s homer from last night yet, which may have been his most impressive of the year.

As a follow up to the last post, let’s very quickly compare the preseason Seattle Mariners prospect rankings to the ones we published yesterday.  It will be a nice way to track prospects and will also hold me accountable.
These rankings are from last December.  Go back one post for updated rankings.
1.) Carlos Triunfel. -2.  The [...]

This report was supposed to come out in Spring Training, but was put off until all affiliated clubs were in season, then until the draft, then until international free agency opened up, then until the trade deadline, and then until the draft pick signing deadline.  Luckily, I started running out of dates to push it [...]

James Jones, a fourth round pick out of Long Island University this year, has turned a lot of heads since being added to the Seattle Mariners’ farm system.  But Jones isn’t the polished college bat that dominated Seattle’s 2009 draft.  He was picked more for his physical tools than his current skills and the Mariners [...]

I haven’t been around much thanks to some internet service provider frustrations and a lot going on in my non-baseball life, but I think I should be able to get back to posting regularly now with a (hopefully) more reliable internet connection (edit: so much for that) and a less hectic schedule going forward.
A couple [...]