Browse entire “40-man, Player by Player” series here.Previous entry: Cliff Lee.  Up next, Garrett Olson.

Following the 2008 season there was a lot of uncertainty as to who would close games for the Seattle Mariners in 2009.  J.J. Putz was traded to the New York Mets and Brandon Morrow was penciled into the starting rotation.  Some [...]

Browse entire “40-man, Player by Player” series here.Previous entry: Brandon League.  Next up, Mark Lowe.
Cliff Lee, as you know, came storming out of mediocrity to become one of the league’s best starting pitchers at the age of 30 back in 2008.  The story was overplayed, but because it was a good one.  Just one year [...]

Browse entire “40-man, Player by Player” series here.Previous entry: Shawn Kelley.  Next up, Cliff Lee.
Brandon Morrow’s experience with the Seattle Mariners was an interesting one.

Drafted in front of hometown favorite and now two time Cy Young winner Tim Lincecum.
Made big league club out of Spring Training the following season as a reliever in a short [...]

Browse entire “40-man, Player by Player” series here.
Previous entry: Felix Hernandez.  Next up, Brandon League.
Last spring there were two pitchers that made the team that were talked about as major surprises.  One was Chris Jakubauskas, now with the Pittsburgh Pirates, who was indeed came out of nowhere.  The other was Shawn Kelley, who was [...]

I always eagerly await media day, when soon after we get to see the player mugshots.  It seems silly to care, but we end up staring that those photos for a calendar year at various websites and on TV, so it’s fun to find out what our guys will look like.  You never know when [...]

Felix el Rey!
After writing about Luke French, how does one go about writing about Felix Hernandez, one of the best starting pitchers in baseball and the 2009 Cy Young runner up?  Ugh.
It had been a frustrating ride for Seattle Mariners fans.  There had been moments of greatness, like the one-hitter against the Boston Red Sox [...]

I just realized that the contact form at the top of the site hasn’t been working.  I have no idea how long it’s been denying me messages, but I discovered today that my email address information resets when I update the plugin, meaning it probably hasn’t been working for a long time.
If you tried to [...]

Luke French made a poor for impression for the Seattle Mariners after being acquired in the Jarrod Washburn trade, getting whooped on for 38 innings to close out the year.  He was so frustrating to watch that I was ready to never see him on Seattle’s active roster again.
I still don’t like him, but with [...]

Sports Illustrated latest to join in Seattle lovefest
Sports Illustrated has an article up about GM Jack Zduriencik, Franklin Gutierrez and the Seattle Mariners leading the charge in exploiting baseball’s newest Moneyball inefficiency, defense.  It’s a nice read, though there probably isn’t much new info there if you regularly surf around the Seattle blogosphere.  It’s always [...]

You may have noticed that the Seattle Mariners are making an attempt to sign international amateur free agent pitcher Rafael DePaula.
DePaula has spent the last year serving a suspension handed out by Major League Baseball after they determined that he lied about his age.  DePaula and his advisors maintain that he is 17 years old [...]