As If You Didn’t Know
by Jon Shields ~ Wednesday, December 30th, 2009Ryan Rowland-Smith is the coolest Seattle Mariner.
Ryan Rowland-Smith is the coolest Seattle Mariner.
As mentioned in the last post, I woke up with baseball, and more specifically, Barry Bonds on the brain, so allow me to get this off my chest. Bonds did steroids, sure, whatever– but there is one area of attack that has always bugged me. This one:
Last night I dreamed about baseball. I was practicing with someone who I recognized as a San Francisco Giants great, but I’m not really sure who it was. I think it morphed from Kevin Mitchell to Bobby Bonds to Barry Bonds (one of these is not like the others), though it’s a little fuzzy. Anyways, [...]
M’s sign Josh Bard and Chad Cordero to minor league deals with Spring Training invites Apparently the Seattle Mariners aren’t confident in Eliezer Alfonzo being their “veteran presence” behind the plate, and have brought in Bard. I figure Cordero is being brought back as a courtesy more than anything. He showed very little last season [...]
According to a Ken Rosenthal tweet, the Seattle Mariners have traded Brandon Morrow to the Toronto Blue Jays for reliever Brandon League and a prospect. The prospect has to be a great one, because while League is a very solid reliever you have to think GM Jack Zduriencik could get more value for Morrow. So [...]
The Seattle Mariners have acquired DH/OF Milton Bradley from the Chicago Cubs in exchange for RHP Carlos Silva and $6M. This always seemed like a possibility, especially after the Cubs failed to find serious suitors elsewhere, but I’m still in disbelief. Obviously this is a good move for Seattle. The Mariners move Silva, who was [...]
I’m still not sure what’s going on with this site, but can’t sleep and feel like writing. I don’t feel like writing about Cliff Lee or any recent rumors, so here is a quick rundown of the state of the farm by position, focusing on where guys are rather than ranking them. All of those [...]