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Posted in Baseball on Aug 7th, 2010
Let’s preface this with the fact that when we first saw the headline on this report, we thought there was much more to this rumor. It’s not ridiculous to think it could happen, but it’s based mostly on the fact that two New York Mets minor leaguers were scratched just before game time. Ruben Tejada [...]
Posted in Baseball, Trades, Transactions on Aug 4th, 2010
The Philadelphia Phillies took yet another hit to their infield when they had to shelve first baseman Ryan Howard on the 15-day DL. They brought up John Mayberry, Jr. from Triple-A, but they needed to do something else. That something else was trade for Mike Sweeney from the Seattle Mariners. When Mariners GM Jack Zduriencik [...]
Posted in Baseball on Jul 31st, 2010
The Seattle Mariners have optioned 1B Justin Smoak to Triple-A Tacoma after he hit .163 with two home runs and five RBI’s for the club. Smoak was the prize of the Cliff Lee deal, but has been a bust as a rookie this year. He’s hit just .198 on the season. So far for the [...]
Posted in Baseball on Jul 9th, 2010
Joel Sherman of the New York Post has been all over this story lately. Now, he is reporting that the Seattle Mariners have agreed on a deal with the Texas Rangers to send them Cliff Lee. Wow. According to the Rotoworld.com posting, Sherman says that the Mariners will get Justin Smoak, reliever Mark Lowe and [...]
Posted in Baseball on Jul 8th, 2010
With the Texas Rangers quickly falling out of the Lebron James sweepstakes, they have turned their focus on landing Seattle Mariners pitcher Cliff Lee. And according to a little blurb on Foxsports.com, the Rangers have become the favorite. “One rival general manager believes the Rangers have become the favorite to land Cliff Lee,” Ken Rosenthal writes. One [...]
Posted in Baseball on Jun 26th, 2010
Several baseball executives tell Ken Rosenthal of Foxsports.com that the Seattle Mariners are ready to trade LHP Cliff Lee right now, despite what GM Jack Zduriencik has said recently. “We’re just going to try to win baseball games,” Zduriencik said Friday. “I’m not a fool. But in the same sense, who the heck knows? We’ll [...]
Posted in Baseball on Jun 16th, 2010
A league source tells Jack Curry of YES Network that the Philadelphia Phillies “would love” to get Seattle Mariners LHP Cliff Lee back. “Spoke to baseball official who has regular contact w Phils. He said they are itching to add a starter and would love to get Cliff Lee back,” Curry tweets. We aren’t shocked [...]
Posted in Baseball on Jun 9th, 2010
The Seattle Mariners recently unloaded a heap of minor league crap to the Philadelphia Phillies in exchange for LHP Cliff Lee. Good deal, right? Well, not really. The Mariners still can’t buy a win despite having some excellent pitching. They can’t hit and are in last place in the AL West at 13 games behind [...]
Posted in Baseball on May 12th, 2010
The Seattle Mariners could definitely use some help, as evidenced by their current residence in the basement of the AL West. And they may get it soon as pitcher Erik Bedard recently pitched a simulated game. Bedard is recovering from a shoulder injury and only threw 30 pitches. After the session, Bedard said he didn’t [...]
Posted in Baseball on May 10th, 2010
This wouldn’t be entirely shocking, but it would be sad if the Seattle Mariners had to let go of their best player of all time (sorry, Jay Buhner). Larry Larue of the Tacoma News Tribune speculates that Ken Griffey, Jr. will probably lose his DH spot in the lineup by the end of the week [...]
Posted in Baseball, Fired, Transactions on May 9th, 2010
The Seattle Mariners needed someone to blame for their miserable 11-19 performance that has landed them in the basement of the American League West. And that person was hitting coach Alan Cockrell. The Mariners have an AL-worst .617 OPS and have lost eight straight games. They have also scored less runs than 28 of 30 [...]
Posted in Baseball on May 5th, 2010
Milton Bradley is at it again. Ability has never been the issue with this guy; being a royal douchebag has. A source tells MyNorthWest.com that Bradley left the Seattle Mariners last night during a game. According to the source, Bradley got all pissy after striking out looking in the sixth inning with the bases loaded [...]
Posted in Baseball on May 1st, 2010
Enjoy your rent-a-player, Seattle. Hopefully, Phillippe Aumont doesn’t amount to much (although he’s been spectacular in the Phillies farm system recently) because it looks like the Seattle Mariners won’t be keeping Cliff Lee beyond this season. His agent, Darek Braunecker, says that he doesn’t foresee a deal getting done that would keep him in the [...]
Posted in Baseball on Apr 26th, 2010
The Mariners will finally get to see their big offseason acquisition play this Friday. After pitching six-shutout innings against the AAA Tacoma Rainiers, Cliff Lee will fly to Kansas City to join the big-league club Monday and then make his first start for the Mariners on Friday against Texas. Lee has been out since early [...]
The Seattle Mariners have put starting pitcher Cliff Lee on the 15-day disabled list with an abdominal strain. Lee has been battling this issue for most of the spring, and it’s not surprising that the Mariners would be careful here. The good news for Seattle is that it’s not shoulder or arm trouble. We’d have [...]
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