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Mariners Win 2013 Opener
The Seattle Mariners earned their seventh straight opening day victory after shutting out the division champion Oakland Athletics, 2-0 on Monday. Oakland ace Brett Anderson, who only started in six appearances last season due
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Tyler Burgoon Pitch F/X Report
Tyler Burgoon got in a spring training game in the Cactus League for some reason, as the Mariners let him pitch in a game in the home park, giving us some Pitch F/X data.
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Mariners @ Athletics: Opening Day Liveblog Extravaganza
Hello friends, and strangers, and welcome to this year’s edition of Seattle Mariners Opening Day. After an excruciatingly long spring training in which the M’s clubbed many a dinger and an excruciatingly excruciating offseason
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Stephen Kohlscheen Scouting Report
In one of the televised Cactus League outings this spring training, we got to see Stephen Kohlscheen, a 24 year old right-handed reliever that pitched in Clinton (A), High Desert (A+), and one outing
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Playing Around with Mariner Starting Lineups
It is that time of the year, as Opening Day is but days away, and we have already discussed the 40 man roster, the 25 man roster, and the starting rotation. So now, let’s
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Are Erasmo and Saunders hurt, the Garland Decision, and Rotation Projections
When I wrote my version of what I believe the 25 man roster should look like, it was pretty obvious who I had pencilled into the rotation. So let’s look at them through the
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The Mariners Sign Endy Chavez
According to Jon Heyman of CBS, the Mariners have signed 35 year old corner outfielder Endy Chavez to a minor league contract. Chavez had signed a minor league deal with the Royals over the
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An Ideal 25 Man Mariner Roster
In this post, I will look at what I believe the Mariners 25 man roster should be breaking spring training. In future posts, I will look at the rotation and lineups, and this will
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Ranking the Mariners 40 man roster in Spring Training
With Spring Training coming to an end in a little more than a week, the Mariners face some roster choices, especially when it comes to veteran minor league free agents and the 25 man
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Checking in on Julio Morban Using Pitch F/X Data
I started working on my ranking the 40 man roster post for March, and realized, that yet again, I was still unsure about where to place Morban (who hit two homers in his final
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Reevaluating the Ichiro Trade Using Pitch F/X Data
In this post, I will take a bit of a deeper look into Danny Farquhar and D.J. Mitchell, the two pitchers acquired by the Mariners from the Yankees when the team traded Ichiro Suzuki.
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A Chance Ruffin Obituary?
The Mariners optioned Chance Ruffin to AAA earlier this week, sending him to minor league camp. I believe this was Ruffin’s 2nd option (year, he can be optioned and called up as many times
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I Still Don’t Get Voros McCracken’s Critique of the Mariners
Voros McCracken is one of the most influential sabermetricians, mainly because of his “DIPs Theory”. DIPs Theory radically changed the way pitchers were evaluating in a way that wasn’t matched until the availability of
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Jonathan Arias Pitch F/X Scouting Report
Jonathan Arias is certainly not the most known of the Mariners’ minor league pitchers in camp. The 25 year old right-handed pitcher from the Dominican Republic has been in the Mariners system since 2009.
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Jon Garland: Pitch F/X Style
In the previous post, I wrote about how Jon Garland looked in his first televised outing, what I called the eye test. Of course, we also have Pitch F/X data for his 32 pitch
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The Eye Test: Jon Garland
Jon Garland made his 2nd Cactus League start on Monday, on the first televised broadcast for the Mariners of the season. Since it was at the Mariners’ home stadium, we also have Pitch F/X
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The Mariners signed Jhonny Nunez to a minor league deal earlier this off-season after a decent winter ball performance following a horrible AAA season. Nunez last pitched in the big leagues in 2009, and
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Should We Be Worried About James Paxton
James Paxton’s early spring training has not went well. Not only is he having to throw a lot of pitches to not get a lot of outs, he isn’t throwing with the velocity we
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Brandon Maurer Impresses With Velocity
Brandon Maurer is coming off an impressive 2012 campaign in AA in which he showed a legit fastball to go along with good secondary pitches and solid command (and most importantly for him, at
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2013 Mariners Season Preview
2013 Mariners Season Preview As the Mariners are settling into spring training and gearing up for the 2013 season, I can’t help but get excited. Of course, I say this every year, but there
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2013 MLB Predictions
AL West Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim 97-75 Texas Rangers 90-72 Seattle Mariners 85-77 Oakland Athletics 79-83 Houston Astros 60-102 AL Central Detroit Tigers 95-77 Cleveland Indians 81-81 Kansas City Royals 78-84 Chicago
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