The Seattle Mariners made six more cuts today, wiping out all of the rest of the 40-man newbies.  Dustin Ackley, Dan Cortes, Edward Paredes, Anthony Varvaro and Ricky Orta were all optioned to AA West Tenn, while Ezequiel Carrera was optioned to AAA Tacoma.
Ackley and Carrera didn’t have any chance at making the team, so [...]

Four more Spring Training cuts rolled in today, and these four were even less surprising than some of the first batch.
First basemen Tommy Everidge and Brad Nelson along with outfielders Greg Halman and Mike Wilson have been reassigned to minor league camp. 

Seven non-roster invites and one 40-man player have been voted off the island. Catchers Steve Baron and Luis Oliveros, lefty starters Mauricio Robles, Chris Seddon, Ryan Feierabend and Nick Hill and right handed relievers Joshua Fields and Steven Shell are the first cuts of the spring for our Seattle Mariners.

The Mariners have signed 27 year old side-armer Wes Littleton to a minor league deal. In 2006, Littleton fluked his way into a 1.73 ERA in 36.1 major league innings with just 17 K thanks to a .197 BABIP. Since then, Littleton has bounced around the minors and majors, getting smacked around pretty good last [...]

The Seattle Mariners have re-signed DH/1B Mike Sweeney to a minor league deal and invited him to Spring Training.  The official press release says he’ll be “competing for a spot,” but you can bet that this move is Seattle throwing Sweeney a bone and letting him audition for other teams, as Larry LaRue reported recently.
Sweeney [...]

Mariners Sign Jesus Colome to a minor league contract
Veteran reliever who throws the heat but has little control and doesn’t have a history of missing bats.  He could surprise and make the big club, but I don’t like his chances much considering some of the other arms competing for those final bullpen spots.  He’s serviceable [...]

Erik Bedard has “passed” his physical and agreed to a deal with the Seattle Mariners that guarantees him $1.5M with escalators that could take the deal up to $8.5M.  There is also a mutual option for 2011 at $8.5M, that could rise depending on 2010 performance.  Yusmeiro Petit, a November waiver claim, has been designated [...]

More on the Felix Hernandez extension.  A couple of hours ago Jon Heyman tweeted the contract details:
$3.5M signing bonus
2010: $6.5M
2011: $10M
2012: $18.5M
2013: $19.5M
2014: $20M
Adding up to $78M, the previously reported figure. Cot’s Baseball Contracts has the escalators being $1M for Cy Young, $500K for 2nd place and $250K for 3rd place.  I must have missed [...]

I was planning on waiting until the dust settles to write up my thoughts on the Felix Hernandez extension, but in this great blogosphere the longer I wait the less there will be to write, so instead of just waiting for all the details I’ll just talk about individual aspects of the deal as they [...]

It’s hard to care about these other arbitration eligible guys with Felix Hernandez and Franklin Gutierrez getting long term deals, but here’s a quick rundown.
Mark Lowe: $1.15M
David Aardsma: $2.75M
No word yet on Brandon League and Casey Kotchman.
Update: Kotchman submitted $3.9M, Mariners submitted $3.135M.  League submitted $1.325M, Mariners submitted $900K.  No settlements reported yet.