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Can We Quantify the “Marine Air Effect” at Safeco?
With the fences at Safeco Field moving in for the 2013 season, and the Mariners moving away from a defensive heavy approach to one that relies more on the home run, we expect to
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Do the Mariners have a Defensive Problem in the Minors?
When thinking about the Mariners’ farm system as of late, it struck that they do not have a real elite defensive prospect, and all of their big position prospects seem to have major defensive/position
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Free Agent Watch: Oliver Perez
“..there isn’t any reason to expect anything from (Oliver) Perez in 2012″- Me, January 18th 2012. Oops… I don’t want to go into too much detail into the Oliver Perez story because I already
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Arbitration: Josh Kinney
Josh Kinney is a rather interesting arbitration case for the Mariners this off-season. Because he was signed as a minor league free agent this off-season, I assumed he was a free agent at the
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2012 Jackson Generals Season Review
The Jackson Generals lost in the Championship to the Diamondbacks AA affiliate in 4 games. The team went 78-60 (with the exact same pythag) and had a one year park factor of 100 (meaning
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High Desert Mavericks Season Review
The Mariners A+ team, the High Desert Mavericks, lost to the Astros’ Lancaster JetHawks on Tuesday, ending their season. The team was 83-56 in the regular season (81-58 Pythag) and the team’s one year
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Clinton Lumberkings Season Review
The Clinton Lumberkings lost to the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers 4-2 on Sunday night, ending their season. They faced Mark Williams, who spent part of the year in independent ball. He was throwing just 90
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2012 Everett AquaSox Season Review
The Everett AquaSox were eliminated from the playoffs on Tuesday night thanks to a loss to the Vancouver Canadians (Blue Jays affiliate). The club went 45-30 this year with a 41-34 Pythag, and their
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Jesus Montero’s Power, Lack of Tools on Full Display
Jesus Montero as a Seattle Mariner has not gone well so far. He isn’t hitting like the scouting reports said he would, and is a serious liability on the bases and in the field.
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Still a Mariner For Some Reason, Millwood Struggles on Friday
On August 31st, the last day that teams can trade players using the waiver wire, the Seattle Mariners trotted out Kevin Millwood to start the game. There was some reported interest in Millwood this
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Scouting Report on the Everett Aquasox
The Everett Aquasox played a 5 game series in Boise against the Cubs affiliate, the Hawks. Since they have MiLB.TV, I was able to watch the team and a lot of the players for
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AZL Mariners Season Review
The Arizona League Seattle Mariners went 31-25 this year with a Pythagorean W-L of 28-28. The offense was slightly under average offensively according to OPS, had more walks than average, and more strikeouts than
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2012 Pulaski Mariners Season Review
The Pulaski Mariners finished the 2012 season 29-38 (with an exact same Pythag), missing the playoffs in the Appalachian League. So thus continues our season reviews for the minor league affiliates (technically this begins
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Tacoma gives out season awards, finish home schedule on high note
The AAA Tacoma Rainiers played their final home game of the season on Sunday, beating the Las Vegas 51′s 2-1. Alex Liddi hit a homer in the first and Carlos Peguero hit one in
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What is Mike Carp?
Mike Carp has now played 162 games. That is a full season. So we now have a full season worth of data on the 26 year old 1st Baseman/Corner outfielder. This age is desired
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The Mariners “Missing Wins”
The Mariners are 51-61 this year, 10 games under .500. According to Pythagorean W-L (which is based off run differential) the Mariners should be 55-57. At times this year, even recently, it has said
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Jason Vargas named Pitcher of the Month: Does it Matter?
Mariners’ starter Jason Vargas was named the A.L. Pitcher of the Month in July. The question always is though: “Was Vargas actually a different pitcher?” and “Can we count on him to be this
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Mariners Scouting Players in Japan
The Mariners have always been looking for talent internationally. Not only have they been one of the biggest spenders in the Dominican Republic and Venezuela, they have also got players from rather strange places (such
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Justin Smoak against AAA pitching
As you probably already know, the Mariners sent down Justin Smoak earlier this week in hopes that he will figure things out at the plate. So here I watched his first 12 at-bats in
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Tacoma continues to lose, Hultzen continues to struggle
Because I hadn’t written a recap on Tacoma in a while and Danny Hultzen was pitching, I foolishly decided to write about Monday’s game against the Colorado Rockies’ AAA in which Tacoma lost 9-1.
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Mariners win series against Rays in the Trop
The Mariners, didn’t walk on Sunday, but, at least on Sunday, it didn’t matter. They beat the Rays 2-1 behind a great outing behind Blake Beavan. It is notable though, as the Rays top
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