I keep asking myself to stop writing about Johan Santana. It’s unlikely that he’ll become a Mariner, but he still manages to take up about 15% of my offseason posts. It all comes down to the fact that there is absolutely nothing to write about in baseball between Christmas and New Years, but it’s always […]

No Mariner transactions were made during my brief week-long hiatus, but a few rumors still managed to surface before Christmas.
The Boston Globe and Chicago Tribune have both reported that Seattle is still in on the Johan Santana talks. I haven’t written much more than a blurb about Santana in three weeks (except for this MVN […]

In my last post I announced my move to the MVN network. I was supposed to write for Caffeinated Confines, Transaction Guy and Padres in Training. I’ve written a couple posts each for Caffeinated Confines and Padres in Training, but was never set up to write for Transaction Guy as implied.
MVN requested that I stop […]

I want to thank everyone for taking time to look at this blog. It hasn’t even been a month and a half and I’ve already gotten a pretty decent following. Thanks for your support, but I have been approached by MVN (Most Valuable Network) and will begin writing for at least 2 pages on their […]

Ken Rosenthal reports that our Seattle Mariners are in serious negotiations with free agent starter Carlos Silva, and thinks the contract is worth $44M over four seasons.
This may not be the popular choice among Mariners fans, but did we really expect anything different? Bavasi is taking the money Kuroda wouldn’t accept and offering it to […]

I’ve heard people throwing this around for quite awhile, but didn’t give much thought to it. I figured Oakland GM Billy Beane wouldn’t trade within the division, but Buster Olney reports that the Mariners are pushing hard for Joe Blanton. The price? Adam Jones.
My first thoughts on this were against the trade. While many doubt […]

In my last post I was pushing hard for the Mariners to ink one or two rehab projects, one of them being Mark Prior. I know Prior is injured, but I was under the impression he’d be ready to go fairly early on in the season, maybe missing a month or so. I saw a […]

Hello everyone! My name is Chris, and I am a die-hard Mariners fan stationed in South Texas. I will be attempting to cover all M’s Minor League news, so stay tuned for news and reports from our farm system.

Given the state of the Mariners’ farm system in the late 90’s and early 2000’s, no one […]

Kuroda to LA; Bedard, Colon and Prior should be on Mariners radar.

New reports have made this sound more “official”: Hiroki Kuroda has signed with the Los Angeles Dodgers. The deal is pending a physical. I’m going to go ahead and believe this report, maybe I’ll be wrong. This is the second consecutive offseason that the […]

One starting pitcher the Mariners wish they could have acquired is former A’s starter Dan Haren. Of course, GM Billy Beane was smart enough to trade him out of the AL West. Haren was dealt earlier today to the Arizona Diamondbacks for a bundle of prospects.
This is good news for the Mariners for several reasons: […]

There have been a lot of rumors and reports that free agent pitcher Hiroki Kuroda has signed with the Los Angeles Dodgers. No official announcements have been made, however, and we haven’t heard anything about him since Tuesday night. Here’s what we have:

12/11/07 - 7:30 PM PST - Seattle Times’ Geoff Baker (scroll down) brings […]

For the last few days I’ve been dreading the arrival of the Mitchell Report. There is a million places where you can find the list of names that appeared in the report, so I’m not going to waste time or space going into the specifics. That is not what this blog is about.
This report was […]

The Seattle Mariners had four non-tender candidates going into tonights deadline: George Sherrill, Horacio Ramirez, John Parrish and Ben Broussard.

There was never any doubt that Sherrill was going to be brought back, as he was solid as anyone in last year’s bullpen. The only other player retained was Horacio Ramirez. Shocking to some, but […]

The non-tender deadline is fast approaching and several interesting players are now free agents. Here are a few that might catch the Mariners’ eye:
Mark Prior, SP - There was some speculation that the Mariners may try and get Mark Prior as part of a Raul Ibanez trade during the Winter Meetings. Now he is a […]

Miguel Tejada was traded to the Astros today. This trade effects both the Mariners and the Angels.
Let’s start with the Angels. It seemed almost certain that they would acquire Miguel Cabrera from Florida, and the general consensus was that they would get Miguel Tejada if they failed to do so. I know I wasn’t the […]

What a huge whiff for Bill Bavasi and the Seattle Mariners. Kyodo News reports that free agent pitcher Hiroki Kuroda recently informed his former team that he intended to sign with the Los Angeles Dodgers, and could be in LA to complete the contract later on today.
If this is indeed true, this is a huge […]

It’s been a while since we’ve had a Kuroda update, almost a week. Last we heard the Mariners had bumped their offer to a 4-year deal, but that is the latest rumor to be disputed. Seattle P-I’s John Hickey reports that Kuroda doesn’t want any more than three years, citing the desire he might have […]

Last Friday I was contacted by Aaron Shinsano at East Windup Chronicle about writing a piece for their “Hometown Lowdown” feature. It’ll be a pretty cool collection covering Asian players in the MLB, how they did in 2007 and what to expect in 2008. Akinori Iwamura was the first one covered and they said they […]

Like I said in my previous post, the rumor mill has been slow for a few days. We haven’t heard anything new about targets like Johan Santana or Erik Bedard. If neither of those happen, we may have to look in another direction. If Bedard or Santana were obtained, there would be an attempt to […]

It’s been a slow couple of days, and there hasn’t been a single rumor to pop up since before the weekend. So, what else can we talk about?
The Mariners have a few guys entering their contract years. It is not at all uncommon for teams to trade these type of players, especially if they’re not […]