Rob Neyer is leaving ESPN.com. Rob Neyer is ESPN.com, so this is kind of a big deal. I wasn’t directly influenced by Rob. My baseball re-education didn’t come until late 2007-early 2008 when I began blogging about the Mariners at Bleeding Blue and Teal. I started begrudgingly following U.S.S. Mariner and Lookout Landing as the [...]
Update: The Mariners are out on Duchscherer.
This morning Joe Stiglich of the Contra Costa Times wrote that the AL West rival Oakland Athletics “are trying to trade for Seattle infielder Chone Figgins, and that current A’s third baseman Kevin Kouzmanoff and perhaps a pitcher could be shipped to the Mariners in return.” The one has legs having been confirmed by a [...]
Short season leagues are something of a conundrum. You see a smattering of players who have spent several years in the various Latin American summer leagues, and are getting their first taste of baseball on American soil. Then you sprinkle in a smattering of draft picks from the previous June with a handful of non-drafted [...]
My mother is British and my dad has always been more of a basketball guy, so that I wasn’t raised a baseball fan from birth shouldn’t come as great surprise. I had to find the game and the Seattle Mariners at least somewhat on my own. I wouldn’t say I was a Mariner fan until [...]
Ray added to NRIs The Mariners have announced that Chris Ray has been added to the list of non-roster invitees. Ray will compete for a spot in Seattle’s depleted bullpen. Ray missed all of 2008 recovering from Tommy John surgery and hasn’t been great since. He’s always struggled with walks and home runs, but this [...]
Our friends over at fellow SweetSpot blog The Platoon Advantage unveiled their organizational rankings for the offseason a couple of weeks ago. The Common Man definitely has some differing views from the standard mainstream (TCM is quite good at that), and it’s definitely a thought-provoking piece in places. I don’t necessarily agree with it, but [...]