The News Tribune’s Larry LaRue has been taking little shots at the Seattle Times’ Geoff Baker for a while now.  Here’s his latest: A few of the Seattle Mariners were irritated, a few others amused this week that one of the beat writers not on this trip blogged that the six games to be played [...]

Three run homer and some sloppy defensive play aside, that was one of the more enjoyable Felix Hernandez starts I’ve ever witnessed.  His fastball was electric, his curveball was straight out of Looney Tunes and his power changeup was as good as it’s ever been.  He even threw a couple “mistake” sliders that looked like [...]

*Don’t look now, but Ichiro is having one of his best offensive seasons at age 35. Highest career SLG, 2nd highest BA, wOBA, OPS and OPS+. *Since joining the Mariners, Bill Hall has struck out swinging 28.2% and looking 9.7% of the time, both career highs. *It would appear that Michael Saunders has returned from [...]

Offense by wOBA: C – .275, 29th between the Rays and Astros. (Twins lead at .402) 1B – .358, 15th between the Rockies and Marlins. (Cardinals lead at .432) 2B – .319, 21st between the White Sox and Indians. (Phillies lead at .407) 3B – .287, 29th between the Reds and the Marlins. (Rays lead [...]

When I noticed how deep the designated hitter market for the upcoming offseason was, my initial thought was that the Seattle Mariners could wind up with a solid DH by process of elimination.  But after looking through team depth charts it looks like there will be more ballclubs looking for DHs this year than normal. [...]