It was a sad and unfortunate day when minorleaguesplits.com closed its doors a while back. Lucky for all of us, Kyle Boddy of Driveline Baseball took it upon himself to make that information once again easily accessible to the public. Check it out! Here’s Dustin Ackley’s page as an example. Woo! Here’s a section from [...]
“Linkage” Last year’s 40-man series only made it through 30-some names while this year’s edition was sidetracked early and often. Opening Day has already arrived and we’ve only made it through a half-dozen players– whoops! I’ll limp through a few more before retiring the series, at least in its current form. For this installment — [...]
Roster set! RHSP Felix Hernandez LHSP Jason Vargas RHSP Doug Fister LHSP Erik Bedard RHSP Michael Pineda RHRP Brandon League RHRP Chris Ray RHRP Jamey Wright RHRP Josh Lueke RHRP Tom Wilhelmsen RHRP David Pauley LHRP Aaron Laffey C Miguel Olivo C Adam Moore 1B Justin Smoak MIF Jack Wilson SS Brendan Ryan 3B Chone [...]
Some news came out this morning that hasn’t come as a huge shock, given some of the talk out of Mariners camp the last few days. Per the various Mariners beat writers on Twitter, LHP Cesar Jimenez has cleared waivers and been outrighted to Tacoma, meaning that RHP’s Tom Wilhelmsen and Josh Lueke have made [...]
Time to start taking a look at what we’ve got in our 2011 Seattle Mariners. Infield: Potentially great now, pretty darn good later The Mariners will start the season with Chone Figgins, Brendan Ryan, Jack Wilson and Justin Smoak around the infield. Figgins didn’t fare well at second base last season, but hopefully he will [...]
The Seattle Mariners got that much closer to finalizing their Opening Day roster today by releasing utility man Josh Wilson, re-assigning Josh Bard, Chris Gimenez and Luke French to minor league camp and adding Adam Kennedy, Jamey Wright and Chris Ray to the 40-man roster. This leaves Cesar Jimenez (a roster player) and Luis Rodriguez [...]
It’s no secret that Mariners fans are a cynical bunch. When our team implodes on the fifteenth day of the season, most of us aren’t particularly surprised. A seven-game win streak is simply a sign from above that a ten-game losing streak is on the horizon. Heck, Jack Zduriencik even acknowledged Mariners fans’ high pain [...]
“Carlos Silva is heading for free agency” Some fans have standards when it comes to choosing the players they like and root for. I can’t say I do. It’s all pretty subjective, especially when it comes to anything off the field. I like some players because they seem like genuinely nice people, while I dislike [...]