The Seattle Mariners dealt LHSP Erik Bedard and RHRP Josh Fields to the Boston Red Sox in a true deadline deal.  Perhaps the last trade to come down the wire, the Twitterverse — local beat, national scribes, bloggers and fans alike –were going crazy trying to figure this one out as details continued to trickle [...]

I have to run out for a bit, but Erik Bedard and Josh Fields appear to be heading to the Red Sox as part of a three team trade involving the Dodgers.  Reports are all over the place at this time, but it looks like the Mariners have landed CF Trayvon Robinson from the Dodgers [...]

As already written up by Griffin (who has been brought on to help keep us from letting day-to-day news slip through the cracks as has been happening far too often lately), GM Jack Zduriencik has struck his second deadline deal with the Detroit Tigers, sending away RHSP Doug Fister and RHRP David Pauley in exchange [...]

Doug Fister and David Pauley have been dealt to the Tigers for three young players and a PTBNL. The guys the M’s are getting will be outfielder Casper Wells, LHP Charlie Furbush (presumably to make up for losing one player with a funny name), and third baseman Francisco Martinez. Here’s a quick rundown of the [...]

Via Ryan Divish, this news comes after a rough outing for Laffey tonight, in which he allowed six base runners, including two walks and a home run. His season on the whole has been decent, but he’s struggled a lot as of late, and clearly the organization wants him to work on some things in [...]

We will try to keep this updated through the weekend. —– Sunday, 11:10 am The News Tribune’s Larry LaRue tweets: “Some [contending teams] question [Brandon League's] ability in big games, won’t take the risk.” —– Sunday, 10:45 am * SI’s Jon Heyman tweets: “#redsox, #cardinals, 1 other eyeing bedard.”  It’s just not a Heyman tweet [...]

Fresh off the press, from the SeattleMariners.com Twitter account: LHP Erik Bedard has been activated from the 15-day DL and will start tonight vs. Tampa Bay. Jack Cust has been designated for assignment. You could see this one coming.  Despite his .673 OPS, which looks pretty decent on the Mariners, Jack Cust was clearly found [...]

We almost did it. Here’s what I wrote at the dawn of the season in a purposely rose-tinted post: The Mariners can win the AL West in 2011.  It’s not likely, but if things go right to the same degree that they went wrong last year the Mariners will coast to a 100 win season, [...]