The Seattle Mariners have been a mostly bad baseball team over the past decade. This is hardly a controversial statement: the M’s have gone a decade between playoff appearances, eight years without a ninety win season, and have lost at least ninety games in three of the last four campaigns. That this run of mediocrity [...]
There might not be a Seattle Mariner looking forward to the 2012 season more than Justin Smoak. But as miserable as his season seemed between him losing his father to cancer, ineffectively gutting it out through dual thumb injuries, and absorbing a bad hop with his nose late in the year, it wasn’t all bad. Through Smoak’s [...]
CBS Sports’ Jon Heyman tweets: mariners made prince fielder an offer (or at least told him what they’d pay). seattle people love him but said to have $ limits As FOX Sports’ Jon Morosi recently wrote, “if Fielder signed with the team that wanted him the most, he would become a Mariner tomorrow.” GM Jack Zduriencik’s interest [...]
It took a $51.7 million bid*, but the Texas Rangers have won the auction for negotiating rights with Japanese right-handed starter Yu Darvish. The Mariners were more than longshots to win at this point – it was really between the Blue Jays and Rangers – but assuming Texas gets a deal done, this is another [...]
As a kid, I adored the baseball Hall of Fame. The Hall stood as the pinnacle of baseball excellence, the house for baseball immortals, and a symbol of greatness and triumph. The very name of the place suggests that membership turns a man into a legend (after all, it’s not the Hall of Very Good [...]
It looks like GM Jack Zduriencik wants a LOOGY after all. Jason Churchill via Twitter: “Source: The Mariners are on the verge of a 1-year deal to bring back LHR George Sherrill for about $1.1m + incent. Pending physical.” It’s hard to get worked up one way or another with this deal. He’s cheap, he’s [...]
There is a common perception among Mariners fans that players always get better when they leave Seattle. I will explain why “getting better after they leave” does not matter. What does matter is how well the players the Mariners acquire in return fare. (For the sake of this argument, I’ll limit the parameters of “leaving” [...]
Per Jon Heyman: For those of you worried about spending 30 million dollars or so on an aging Michael Cuddyer, worry no more. I doubt the M’s are done pursuing hitters this offseason, but I would look to the trade market rather than trying to woo free agents if I were the Mariners front office [...]