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Ackley to get reps at 2B
The entire beat ( Shannon Drayer , Geoff Baker , Larry LaRue ) is reporting that the Seattle Mariners are going to take a look at Dustin Ackley, a high school shortstop, as a second baseman. This was a popular idea among some fans after Ackley’s college coach ...
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Seattle Mariners
The Pittsburgh Pirates have claimed Chris Jakubauskas and the Boston Red Sox have claimed Robert Manual off of waivers.
Two more roster spots for Seattle to fill…
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Seattle Mariners
Pittsburgh Pirates
Chris Jakubauskas
Boston Red Sox
Last offseason the Seattle Mariners were said to be fairly close to a three way trade involving the Detroit Tigers and Tampa Bay Rays. When at first you don’t succeed, try again. Rumor has it that the three may be at it again ( Bob Nightengale tweet , Prospect Insider post plus comments ...
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Detroit Tigers
Tampa Bay Rays
Curtis Granderson
The deadline to add minor leaguers to the 40-man roster in order to protect them for the upcoming Rule 5 draft is the 20th, and Jay Yencich posted his candidates to be added over at USS Mariner earlier today. I posted my candidates back on October 31st , so as a way of (re)bringing your ...
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Seattle Mariners
proballnw.com - 31 hours ago
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The Seattle Mariners have more than enough starting
pitchers to fill their rotation in 2010, but not
necessarily the right kind. Felix Hernandez slots in as the staff ace, but after that Seattle is looking at a lot of question marks. Ian Snell and ...
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On Rich Harden
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Baseball-Intellect
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Are the Seattle Mariners interested in acquiring John Lackey?
It’s easy to get caught up in the rumors. MLB Trade Rumors has become one of the most successful baseball blogs on the internet and has a loyal following of crazed armchair GMs. When the site was first gaining momentum I ...
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Seattle Mariners
John Lackey
Via Baseball America :
RHP: Steve Bray (AAA), Chad Cordero+ (SS), Mario DeJesus (DSL), Jesus Delgado (AAA), Josh Hall+ (AAA), Eric Hull (AA), Mike Koplove (AAA), Randy Messenger (AAA), Luis Munoz (AA), Joey Newby (AA), Steven Shell (AAA), Jared Wells (AAA), Juan Zapata (Hi A), Jeff ...
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Seattle Mariners
Jesus Delgado
Eric Hull
Mike Koplove
Randy Messenger
Luis Munoz
Lackey doesn’t have an overpowering fastball or head turning secondary pitches, but he puts up great numbers year after year by pounding the zone like Jarrod Washburn and missing bats like Erik Bedard.
Lackey is a great fit (for any team) in a vacuum. For Seattle he’d be the ...
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John Lackey
Seattle Mariners
Erik Bedard
As the story goes, GM Jack Zduriencik was close to landing Edwin Jackson last offseason in a three team deal with with Tampa Bay Rays and Detroit Tigers. The deal fell through and Jackson had a breakout season for the Tigers. J.J. Putz, who would have been sent to the Tigers in this deal, ...
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Seattle Mariners
Curtis Granderson
Detroit Tigers
Rumor dump from the weekend:
ESPN’s Buster Olney , Saturday: “If I were to set an early handicap on the upcoming Lackey sweepstakes, I’d throw out an educated guess on the rankings, from top to bottom, that looks like this: Mariners, Angels, Brewers, Mets, Red Sox, ...
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Seattle Mariners
John Lackey
ESPN
Buster Olney
Boston Red Sox
Here are a couple of leftover rumor links as we head into the weekend:
On Thursday Larry Stone went through some Seattle Mariners rumors, noting that “the Mariners will look deeply into” John Lackey. With regards to Rich Harden he writes “this one has legs.” He ...
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Seattle Mariners
John Lackey
Rich Harden
Chone Figgins
Orlando Hudson
Multiple sources are reporting that the Seattle Mariners have signed a 2 year pact with SS Jack Wilson.
No word yet on the money, but I would guess we’re looking at something like $10-12M. Don’t act surprised– we all knew this was coming from the day he was traded to ...
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Jack Wilson
Seattle Mariners
proballnw.com - 7 days ago
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Scott Rolen, Cincinnati Reds – I’ve heard that
the Reds are contemplating making a major push in
2010, but if they don’t land the big time pieces they’re seeking they’ll look to cut costs and move Rolen (among others). ...
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3B Trade Possibilities, Vol. 1
The mainstream media has been quick to link Hideki Matsui to Seattle. He’s a DH, he’s left handed, he’s Japanese, whatever. But all connections thus far have been pure speculation; there have been no reports indicating that Matsui is actually on GM Jack Zduriencik’s ...
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Hideki Matsui
Seattle Mariners
You may look at the Seattle Mariners roster and think that, for the most part, they’ve got their 2010 bullpen in place. David Aardsma is coming off his best season in which he was one of the top closers in baseball, Mark Lowe continued to improve and Sean White resurfaced as a solid ...
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David Aardsma
proballnw.com - 9 days ago
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We don’t know Jack Zduriencik as well as
we think we do. Look at his body of
work with the Mariners like you would any baseball statistics. You have to look at sample size and context. It’s just one year worth of moves while the team ...
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We Don’t Know Jack
A few stray tidbits from the day:
There were some rumors going around based on miscalculations that Brandon Morrow was eligible for arbitration as a Super Two. Luckily, that turned out to be a false alarm. The Mariners have five other players eligible for arbitration in Felix Hernandez, ...
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Seattle Mariners
Brandon Morrow
Felix Hernandez
Franklin Gutierrez
David Aardsma
Morosi/Rosenthal : “ The Jays and Mariners have discussed a trade that would send Lyle Overbay to Seattle, a major league source said today. ”
Now that’s just silly.
The Seattle Mariners didn’t want Lyle Overbay last offseason, as you may recall. The Toronto Blue ...
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Seattle Mariners
Toronto Blue Jays
Lyle Overbay
Russell Branyan
Carlos Delgado
Larry Stone had the first report that Ken Griffey Jr. has agreed to terms with the Seattle Mariners for the 2010 season. Here’s the official presser . The deal is thought to be similar to his 2009 contract.
I’m in a state of shock… or something. I’m not sure how I ...
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Ken Griffey
Fun fact via Shannon Drayer today: The Seattle Mariners have won at least one Gold Glove for 23 straight seasons.
The Gold Glove is a pretty silly award, but that’s still impressive!
1987 – Mark Langston (P)
1988 – Mark Langston (P), Harold Reynolds (2B)
1989 – ...
