Nothing too surprising here; I woke up from a quick nap to find Jim Street, Shannon Drayer, Ryan Divish, John Hickey, the AP and many others all reporting that Seattle officially inked outfielder/first baseman Brad Wilkerson to a one year deal.
Geoff Baker reported that Seattle had this deal in their “back pocket” back on Monday.
The […]

Everytime a new rumor surrounding the Erik Bedard/Adam Jones trade talks comes out, I can’t help but smile. Earlier this week I was getting a little frustrated, now whenever I come across the daily dose of conflicting reports I just chuckle quietly to myself.
Thursday morning brings a few reports that may lead you to believe […]

KOMO’s Shannon Drayer knows the current Seattle Mariners team as well as anyone, working in close capacity with the them all season long. She started covering Mariner baseball on a part-time basis back in 1998, moving to full-time during the 2003 season. You can check out her KOMO baseball blog here. Shannon was kind enough […]

posted by Jon, Patrick and Dustin
Dustin Shires: Throughout all this madness, nothing seems certain anymore.

Jones’ injury
Angelos could nix the trade
Bedard seeking Orioles extension
Jones’ talking could have hindered the talking between clubs

There could be other unknown factors. Simply put, no one has concrete answers, but most of the baseball world thinks this […]

I just got finished listening to the BaseballChannel.tv Under the Lights broadcast featuring MLB.com’s Baltimore Orioles reporter Spencer Fordin. These quotes shouldn’t come as a total surprise, but they’re not gelling with other reports surfacing earlier today.
“There might be a late breaking development that we’ve ascertained,” Fordin told host Peter McCarthy. “The Orioles may be […]

posted by Jon
Sources are saying a deal could be close to being finalized, that would indeed include Adam Jones, George Sherrill, Chris Tillman and a couple more prospects. Earlier reports were saying those other two could be Tony Butler and Kameron Mickolio, but it’s hard to say at this point. MLB.com’s Jim Molony had this […]

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I’m getting a little tired of the subject, especially since no puzzle pieces seem to lock together. Here are a couple odds and ends from today, but take everything with a large grain of salt at this point.
I already wrote about the Adam Jones degenerated hip rumor in my last post, but like […]

posted by Jon

I’m not happy to add to the confusion, but a Baltimore radio show was reporting or speculating today that Adam Jones has a degenerative hip condition. This is completely unconfirmed, and no one else has reported anything similar.
Here is what the Baltimore Sun’s Roch Kubatko had to say:
I’ve been in meetings most […]

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Ken Rosenthal continues to update this particular entry with new info. I thought this paragraph was worth mentioning:
The Orioles are angry with the Mariners for allowing the trade talks to go public. Outfielder Adam Jones, the centerpiece of the M’s offer, blurted to reporters in Venezuela that he was headed to Baltimore […]

posted by Patrick and Jon
Jon: It’s been a chaotic couple of days for all of us trying to follow the Erik Bedard/Adam Jones trade rumors. It seemed to get more and more confusing as the day went on, but finally Geoff Baker was able to clear some things up and make everything make a lot […]

Major things coming out of Shannon Drayer’s blog:
Just heard from Adam Jones via email. Said that he is still in Venezuela but obeying orders from his MLB team and not playing. He says that he said nothing about being traded to the Venezuelan press. Something may have been lost in translation somewhere. Like the last […]

I was going to hold off on this, but it is rapidly making its way around the blogosphere so I decided it was best to get it out there.
It would appear that the Seattle Mariners are close, or have possibly already signed, free agent Brad Wilkerson. Geoff Baker said earlier on radio and confirmed on […]

Baltimore Orioles owner Peter Angelos is notorious for nixing potential trades.
He has yet to approve any Erik Bedard trades, according to ESPN’s Jayson Stark.
This deal is still believed to go through, but keep your fingers crossed (or make a peace sign, if you’re one of the many that doesn’t want to see Bedard in Seattle).
Stark […]

posted by Patrick
As many of you know, in recent days the Mariners have been linked to free agent Brad Wilkerson (1B/OF) and, in fact, a deal with Wilkerson is thought to materialize very soon and probably will as soon as the deal for Bedard is consummated.
Brad Wilkerson2005: 565 AB’s, .248 AVG, 11 homeruns, K every […]

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The first report of who Seattle is sending to Baltimore in exchange for ace Erik Bedard has been issued by Churchill at Prospect Insider.
His source(s) are telling him Adam Jones, Chris Tillman, George Sherrill, Tony Butler and Kameron Mickolio.
As a fan I hate to see Sherrill and Mickolio go, and losing Tillman and […]

The Erik Bedard/Adam Jones trade is going down, according to Geoff Baker and other sources.
As I blogged earlier, Jones was held out of the lineup in Venezuela and is coming home to take a physical.
“(Bill Bavasi) called me yesterday and told me the news,” Adam Jones told a Diario Panorama reporter. “I’ve got to go […]

Shannon Drayer is reporting that Adam Jones will not be available to the Cardinales de Lara for the second time this offseason.
Could the Mariners be close to another trade? Hard to say after a wacky offseason.
She also mentioned that she has heard from “good sources” that George Sherrill will likely be heading to Baltimore if […]

From Pioneer Press:
The Twins tried to get the Los Angeles Angels interested in Santana, but the Angels appear more interested in acquiring hitting than pitching.
It seems everyone has been under the impression that Seattle would be unable to obtain Johan Santana because he didn’t want to play on the West Coast.
I remember a report that […]

According to MLB Rumors, Tony Clark could be nearing a deal with the San Francisco Giants.
Such a deal would be contradictory to recent Chris Haft speculation. Besides that, Giants GM Brian Sabean recently said, “I don’t know that we could marginally improve ourselves with anybody out there,” hinting that he was done with the free […]