Browse entire “40-man, Player by Player” series here. Previous entry: Milton Bradley. Next up, Franklin Gutierrez. Eric Byrnes is certainly a man who has led an interesting career thus far. An incredibly energetic man both on and off the field, Byrnes was signed for the veteran minimum after he was released by the Arizona Diamondbacks [...]
Browse entire “40-man, Player by Player” series here. Previous entry: Jack Wilson. Next up, Eric Byrnes. To say that Milton Bradley is a controversial figure in baseball is a rather severe understatement. Among a myriad of other things, he’s probably the one and only person in the world who can say he got his knee [...]
Browse entire “40-man, Player by Player” series here. Previous entry: Matt Tuiasosopo. Next up, Milton Bradley. Last season GM Jack Zduriencik inherited Yuniesky Betancourt as his starting shortstop. Betancourt, as you know, was supposed to be a Gold Glove juggernaut but just didn’t give a damn and by last season was one of the worst [...]
Browse entire “40-man, Player by Player” series here. Previous entry: Jose Lopez. Next up, Jack Wilson. I was impressed by Matt Tuiasosopo’s Opening Day reception. On TV it sounded like he got one of the more impressive cheers from the Safeco fans during introductions, right up there with Felix Hernandez and Ken Griffey. It obviously [...]
Browse entire “40-man, Player by Player” series here. Previous entry: Casey Kotchman. Next up, Matt Tuiasosopo. There are few Mariner players more polarizing than Jose Lopez, at least among the internet fan base. Some love him, many despise him. The blogosphere may have contributed to a lot of the contempt before realizing that the readers [...]
Browse entire “40-man, Player by Player” series here. Previous entry: Jack Hannahan. Next up, Jose Lopez. The Seattle Mariners’ decision to go with Casey Kotchman as their first baseman didn’t go over very well with most fans at the time of the trade. There were still interesting options on the free agent and trade markets, [...]
Browse entire “40-man, Player by Player” series here. Previous entry: Chone Figgins. Next up, Casey Kotchman. There aren’t a lot of players– especially non-stars– that I really liked before they became Seattle Mariners. Jack Hannahan was one of them, though. I have no idea what it was about Hannahan that I liked so much when [...]
Browse entire “40-man, Player by Player” series here. Previous entry: Mike Carp. Next up, Jack Hannahan. Most of us thought that Chone Figgins was signed to a 4 year, $36M (plus $9M vesting option) deal to take over for Adrian Beltre at third base. There is no replacing Beltre’s glove, but who better than the [...]