Geoff Baker, via MarinerCentral:
Jose Lopez, too, is someone I feel could be a natural leader. More of a strong, silent type like Beltre. Lopez is still seen as somewhat of the baby of the bunch, but I think, once some older players clear out, he’ll be viewed differently. He changed a lot, maturity-wise, this year. […]

I don’t know about you, but I’m curious as hell to find out how GM Jack Zduriencik and his new coaching staff plan on balancing the playing time of Kenji Johjima and Jeff Clement.
Originally it was thought that Joh-K and Clement would flip flop back and forth between the catcher and DH positions like they […]

The 12 player trade that went down on Wednesday evening is an amazing thing to me, in that most of the savvy fans feel like their teams made a decent trade.  Obviously things can change once the games are played, but for now most Mariner fans are excited to have a legitimate center field defender, […]

Many of you have surely read by now that new-Mariner Aaron Heilman had requested a trade from the New York Mets because he wanted to become a starter.  Heilman’s best fit with this team is in the 8th or even 9th inning, at least for now, but things may look a little squirrelly in Spring […]

This is a running log of Jack Zduriencik’s moves since taking over as the Seattle Mariners GM.  It will be linked to on the sidebar and updated as necessary. 

My name is Arne Christensen and I run the website at 1995mariners.com that heads up Bleeding Blue and Teal’s blogroll.  A few days ago I was browsing through a database archive, checking out Mariners articles from that year, and noticed some items about Raul Ibanez as a minor league catcher in 1995, playing for the […]