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Chone Figgins (and Scott Cousins) DFA’d, 5 Added to 40 Man
Tuesday night was the last day teams had to add players to the 40 man roster to protect eligible prospects from the Rule 5 draft. This was one of the reasons for the Andino-Robinson
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FanGraphs has come out with their “Bill James” Projections and added them to the player pages. As more projections come out (especially ZiPS), they will also be added to the player pages and give
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Utility Infielders for the Mariners to consider on the Free Agent Market
Here we continue our series looking at cheap free agents the Mariners could consider this off-season. I am just looking at utility infielders here, so I am only looking at guys that can play
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Are the Mariners the A’s?
On the last day of the season, Angie Mentink of Root Sports mentioned the similarity of the Mariners in 2012 to the A’s in 2011. In 2011, the Athletics went 74-88 with a Pythagorean
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Looking at Out of Options Mariners
As the season ended (with an excellent 12-0 blowout of an Angel team that looked sloppy after being eliminated on Monday) on Wednesday, it became officially time to look at next year (even though we
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Gutierrez Up, Wells Down, Serenity Now
The Mariners activated Franklin Gutierrez today. Gutierrez had been on the the disabled list (technically the 7-day concussion list) since he was hit in the head by a pick-off throw about 2 months ago.
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Mariners Lose to White Sox, Tacoma beats Las Vegas
The Mariners lost to the White Sox 5-4 Jose Quintana has been putting up really good numbers (2.76 ERA/3.83 FIP/4.30 SIERA before the game) despite a real lack of stuff (91-92 MPH fastball, occasionally
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Ranking the Players on the Mariners 40 Man Roster
With September quickly approaching, many teams (especially losing teams) will want to bring up young players when rosters expand to 40. However, for one to be brought up, they have to be placed on
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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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The Legend of Lucas Luetge
The Mariners acquired Lucas Luetge in the Rule 5 draft in December. In the Majors this year, only 12 pitchers (including Luetge) have pitched that were acquired via the Rule 5 draft (5, including
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Scouting Chase Headley
The annual rumor mill around the trade deadline has started and has not disappointed. Absurd trade ideas have been floated by respected journalists, big names have been assigned to teams, teams that aren’t very
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Mariners jumble roster after loss to Padres
The Mariners lost to the Padres 5-4 on Wednesday behind another unlucky Felix Hernandez start (he had a 7.50 ERA but 4.05 FIP). Felix’s struggles have been real though, as he has a FIP
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The Mariners beat the Rangers 21-8
The Mariners faced Rangers’ lefty Derek Holland. For some reason, Chone Figgins was starting again and playing right field (Ichiro was getting his first day off) and he looked really bad out there.
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Mariners lose despite Millwood outing, Erasmo pitches well in AAA
The Mariners lost to the Rangers, 4-2 on Monday night. I like John Jaso in the lead-off spot for the Mariners, as he is a decent OBP guy (.346 OBP this year, .341 OBP
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Casper Wells sent down to AAA, Brian Sweeney is suddenly amazing
Tacoma won their game 7-2 against the Iowa Cubs, while the Seattle Mariners lost 3-0 to the LA Angels. First, a few roster moves. Miguel Olivo wasn’t with the team, and was activated from
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Mariners put forth embarrassing performance in Cleveland, Felix struggles
The Mariners lost bad to the Indians at Progressive Field, losing 9-3. The first story of the game was that Mike Carp was scratched right before the game started. I thought this would be
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Ryan Benched Again, and Another Look at Kawasaki
Munenori Kawasaki had a big spring, at least according to Spring Training statistics, Kawasaki was one of the best hitters in baseball. Of course, only the real foolish people believed that this meant anything
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Wilhelmsen is Solid, and the Mariners beat the Tigers
The Mariners beat the Tigers 7-4, as Tom Wilhelmsen pitched out of a jam in the 8th, getting strikeouts of Alex Avila and Jhonny Peralta. Wilhelmsen has been pitching absurdly well, and it is
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Iwakuma finally pitches and some Minor League Notes
Hisashi Iwakuma finally made his first appearance of the season (he was the last player to appear on an opening day roster to appear in a game in the Majors). Courtesy of Brooks Baseball,
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Indians v. Mariners Series Recap
In the first game of the 3 game series against the Indians, the Mariners blew up a pretty good pitcher (a FIP of 3.28 last year) in Justin Masterson. Masterson gave up 7 hits,
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Noesi shuts down the Athletics, Mariners win 4-0
The Mariners flipped Friday’s score against the Athletics on Saturday, winning 4-0 behind Hector Noesi, who struck out 6 and gave up just 6 walks/hits in 8 innings. Noesi was awful against the Rangers
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