Everyone thought that the New York Yankees pulled off something of a coup this offseason when they traded for a promising pitcher named Michael Pineda from the Seattle Mariners. Pineda was white hot for the Mariners for most of last season before tailing off towards the end. Still, the Yankees acquired the 23-year old in [...]
The New York Yankees have been a bit quiet this offseason. That is, until now. It seems to have started yesterday, and now the news just keeps on coming. It was reported on Friday that the Yankees had agreed to a trade with the Seattle Mariners. They would be sending catcher Jesus Montero and right [...]
Dutch-born Greg Halman, an outfielder for the Seattle Mariners in 2010 and 2011, was stabbed to death Monday in Rotterndam. His younger brother was arrested in connection with the crime. “A 24-year-old died this morning in a stabbing and we have arrested the 22-year-old brother of the victim,” a police spokesman told Rueters. Halman played [...]
At a recent Seattle Mariners game, some kid decided to show off his “Thriller” moves a la Michael Jackson. He looks maybe eight or nine years old, but he dances well beyond his years. Maybe the Mariners just aren’t entertaining enough and they’ll have to keep bringing this kid back so they can sell some [...]
The Seattle Mariners have finally called up their top prospect. 2B Dustin Ackley has been promoted from Triple-A Tacoma and many think it’s about frickin’ time. Ackley was the No. 2-overall selection in the 2009 MLB draft and has been hitting .300 with a .418 on-base percentage and .487 slugging percentage through his first 326 [...]
Yet another team in another town has come to the conclusion that Milton Bradley isn’t worth it. In the past, he’s been incredibly productive, making it worth someone’s while to keep him around and deal with his myriad of antics. But, he’s just not anymore and hence the Seattle Mariners have designated him for assignment. [...]
We sincerely apologize to our reader(s) for not passing along this information sooner. It’s our job to get you this kind of pertinent information in a timely fashion so that you can just go about your day already. Seattle Mariner Milton Bradley is having some marital issues, but it’s not as bad as others have [...]
Sometimes running OTR can be tough. Sometimes I don’t have time to post everything I want to in a given amount of time. Other times – like now – I’m sitting at the computer trying to find something good to post, but can’t really find anything I like. A big “thank you” to everyone’s favorite [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Seattle Mariners’ pitcher Cliff Lee was given a five-game suspension a couple weeks ago for throwing at the head of Arizona Diamondbacks catcher Chris Snyder. He is in the appeals process, but his hearing was just postponed because all parties could not be in attendance. “It’s just one of those things you have to deal [...]
Ed Price of AOL Fanhouse says that the Seattle Mariners are looking for some pitching help since newly acquired Cliff Lee has an abdominal strain. This is bad news because the strain was only supposed to cause him to miss one start. Would they be looking to add a pitcher if they only had to [...]
