The Winter Meetings continue to approach, and they start on Monday. Rumors are swirling, trades are taking shape, and insane contracts are being handed out (Troy Tulowitzki is a good player, but ten years? Really?). The Mariners aren’t expected to be terribly active during the Meetings themselves, but could be active participants in the Rule [...]
Today was the day that the Mariners finalized and announced their 2011 minor league coaching staffs, and there were no major surprises on the list. As reported previously, Daren Brown and Alonzo Powell are returning to Tacoma in their previous roles as manager and hitting coach after holding the same jobs on an interim basis [...]
There are any number of possibilities for the Rule V draft, so rather than having one massive preview post I thought it might be best for Conor and I to just pump out a handful names at a time as we have time leading up to December’s draft. Here I pluck some low hanging fruit. [...]
Baseball is a beautiful game, but if I’m being truthful I’ve got to admit that I am much more interested in the off-field team-building aspects of the game than what occurs on the diamond as a result. I’ve got to think this interest came from the baseball video games I was always playing growing up, [...]
The Mariners announced two more minor league signings today: right handed pitchers Chris Smith and Charlie Haeger. Smith has been an ace reliever in AAA over the last few years, but has yet to translate that success to the majors. He might be a fringe middle relief candidate in Spring Training depending on how things [...]
As Seattle slowly turns into a snow-covered popsicle, the Mariners’ front office staff have been keeping warm by signing a handful of minor-league free agents. Hopefully they’ve kept the signed contracts handy instead of burning them for kindling, because I’m sure some of the players have had second thoughts after seeing the news… Either way, [...]
Today is the day that Major League Baseball teams had to finalize their 40-man rosters in advance of the Rule 5 draft, and the M’s had a lot of room to play with and some interesting decisions to make. After last week’s flurry of roster moves, the M’s were left with a whopping eleven open [...]
It was announced just a short time ago that Felix Hernandez is the 2010 AL Cy Young award winner. As long hoped for by Mariners fans everywhere, Felix has gotten the acknowledgement he deserves for his incredible 2010 season. When the news leaked (link in Spanish) half an hour early from a Venezuelan reporter on [...]