I believe Greg Johns had it first on Twitter and he also has the details on his blog.  The Mariners will fly from Phoenix on March 22 and join the A’s March 28-29th to open the 2012 season in the Tokyo Dome.  The idea isn’t without precedent as MLB has opened its season back East [...]

I don’t know if I’m alone in this, but I tend to remember individual Mariner teams based on one thing or another that distinguishes one year from all the others. Some years are easy, like the 2001 team that won 116 games or the 1995 squad that captured the AL pennant in spectacular fashion. Others [...]

Reports for the Pacific Coast, Southern and California leagues aren’t out yet, but let’s take a peek at what Baseball America had to say about some of the top Mariner prospects in the Midwest, Northwest, Appalachian and Arizona leagues for the 2011 season. Midwest League (A) No. 1 – Taijuan Walker, RHSP – age 19 [...]

Last week I posted an article evaluating some of the in-house candidates for next year’s rotation. Continuing with that theme, I’d like to examine some of the free agent pitchers the Mariners might be interested in acquiring for next season. This will not be an exhaustive review of the starting pitchers in the 2012 free [...]

Around here, we usually look to slugging percentage or isolated power when trying to define a hitter’s power, but neither is a perfect stat.  There are plenty others out there, but earlier this month Ryan Sommers of Crashburn Alley mashed up a couple of established metrics to come up with something new that eliminates some [...]

Doug Fister has a combined 5.1 fWAR this season with the Mariners and Tigers. This is this list of Mariner pitchers who have posted 5+ fWAR seasons: Randy Johnson (1993, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1998*) Felix Hernandez (2009, 2010, 2011) Mike Moore (1985, 1988) Freddy Garcia (2001, 2004*) Jamie Moyer (1998) Erik Hanson (1990) Mark Langston [...]

In fourteen starts this year, Blake Beavan has been decent in the truest sense of the word.  He’ s been worth one win over a replacement-level player, barely walked anyone, and barely struck anyone out.  This is how Twins fans must have felt when Carlos Silva joined the club.  First we called him a replacement [...]

We’re just about at the end of the season, and this time of year, it’s hard to devote too much time to any one thing. Instead, here’s a brief assortment of news and notes as we head into the final weekend of the regular season. The Mariners shut Michael Pineda down for the season after [...]