Shawn Kelley has been booted from the active roster for Cliff Lee. He’ll go play for Tacoma. Surprise! They could have waived Jesus Colome, who hasn’t really pitched since being added to the roster early. That would have made more sense. I would have been even happier if Sean White’s shiny ERA caught up to [...]
I took this entire week off so I have no idea what’s going on with the Mariners right now (bad blogger!)– I hear some guy named Cliff Lee is making his team debut tonight– but I was so excited by this that I had to say something. The Mariners are having Turn Back the Clock [...]
Browse entire “40-man, Player by Player” series here. Previous entry: Milton Bradley. Next up, Franklin Gutierrez. Eric Byrnes is certainly a man who has led an interesting career thus far. An incredibly energetic man both on and off the field, Byrnes was signed for the veteran minimum after he was released by the Arizona Diamondbacks [...]
Browse entire “40-man, Player by Player” series here. Previous entry: Jack Wilson. Next up, Eric Byrnes. To say that Milton Bradley is a controversial figure in baseball is a rather severe understatement. Among a myriad of other things, he’s probably the one and only person in the world who can say he got his knee [...]
On Sunday I told Scott and Conor that I needed to get some stuff done in real life, so I was going to step away from posting on the site for at least a week (which is why you’ve seen them both pop up in the last couple of days). I will continue to lay [...]
Well, not as much as we might like, really. In most situations, a team with an old player performing this poorly would just cut him and move on. But this is Ken Griffey, Jr. we’re talking about, and he’s still in a Seattle Mariners’ uniform (for better or worse). You can’t just go and cut [...]
There’s a scene in the movie Little Big League where Twins 12 year old manager/owner Billy Heywood is forced to make a tough decision. His all time and favorite player and childhood hero, Jerry Johnson, is struggling at the plate. He can’t catch up to fastballs and has no power left. Heywood is watching him [...]
April 16th – Ken Griffey Jr. “The Kid” Bobblehead Night May 7th – Ken Griffey Jr. “The ’95 Slide” Bobblehead Night May 22nd – Ken Griffey Jr. Retro T-Shirt Night July 8th – Ken Griffey Jr. Backwards Cap Night July 8th marks the last Giffey promotional night of the season. I have to think that [...]