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The Mariners Tried To Screw Randy Wolf, So He Walked Away
Veteran starter Randy Wolf asked for and received his release from the Mariners yesterday, the same day he was informed he would make the team's rotation. At issue was a little-known but increasingly used quirk of the CBA, a waiver that makes a guaranteed contract anything but. Seattle tried to spri...
MLB Sees First Play Overturned On Review
The first 20 instances of umpires invoking baseball's new expanded review resulted in the call being upheld. But yesterday in Tempe, the replay system finally earned its keep....
Fat Jesus Montero On His Offseason: "All I Did Was Eat"
Once-hot catching prospect Jesus Montero, who was shipped to Seattle by the Yankees in exchange for Michael Pineda (as of two years later, it seems like one of the fairest trades ever made), is now trying to salvage a big-league career. He's not doing a very good job of it. ...
Quantifying Hustle: How Many Runs Does Cano's Slacking Cost His Team?
Originally published on Baseball Prospectus...
Report: The Mariners Are Done Spending
This is it! After years of losing, the Mariners are finally going for it! They signed one of baseball's best players to the third-largest contract in MLB history. And...that's about it, apparently....
Edgar Martinez Murdered Baseballs Forever
Having purchased a Hall of Fame ballot, which we'll be filling out in accordance with the wishes of our readers, we're examining the merits—and relative lack of merits—of all 36 players on this year's ballot for the purposes of better informing the electorate, i.e., you. All entries in the series ca...
The Mariners May Have Bid Against Themselves For Robinson Cano
In all the Robinson-Cano-to-Seattle chaos on Friday, this much is clear: the Mariners upped their offer despite already being the highest bidder by $50 million. Now, this, from the Dallas Morning News's Evan Grant:...
The Mariners' Front Office Sounds Like A Total Shitshow
It seemed a little odd when Eric Wedge stepped away from the Seattle Mariners after his contract ran out. No extension, no firing. Wedge and the team simply parted ways. After the Seattle Times published an article Saturday in which Wedge criticized three of his old bosses, however, the breakup mad...
Robinson Cano Gets $240 Million From Mariners, Surprises Everyone
Well, that wasn't supposed to happen. After just about every baseball writer working had written off the Seattle Mariners' chances of landing Robinson Cano, news broke this morning that the Mariners had scooped up the prize of the 2013 free agent class with a 10-year, $240 million deal. Based on my ...
Reports: Mariners Break Off Talks With Robinson Cano
For all the talk about Jay Z's foray into the sports agent world, he hasn't been much more than a figurehead. But yesterday, for the first time I can remember, he actually took part in a negotiating session, a meeting with the Mariners on behalf of Robinson Cano. It seems to have gone poorly....
Ken Griffey, Jr.'s Instagram Account Is A Fun Time
So many hairstyles. ...
Here's Felix Hernandez's House On Fire
The Bellevue fire department tweeted out this picture earlier today and according to local news outlets, the home belongs to Felix Hernandez. ...
Felix Hernandez's Wife Victim Of Wire Fraud; Fellow M's Wife Charged
Maria Peguero, the wife of Mariners outfielder Carlos Peguero, is accused of using Felix Hernandez's wife's debit card to rack up nearly $180,000 in online charges. Peguero allegedly used Sandra Hernandez's card to make over 60 purchases from Sak's Fifth Avenue between June and October 2012. She fac...
Randy Johnson Is Still Photographing Rock Stars
We've known about Randy Johnson's side hustle as a concert photographer for some time now, but pictures of the giant, floppy-haired man trying to find just the right angle will always be funny to us....
Look At All Of These Goddamn Bees At Angel Stadium
The Mariners-Angels game was delayed Sunday, on account of bees at Angel Stadium. Thankfully, a Getty photographer documented the bee nuisance....
Hiroshi Yamauchi, The Mariners' Invisible Owner, Is Dead
Hiroshi Yamauchi, the longtime president of Nintendo who owned a majority stake in the Seattle Mariners but famously never watched them play in person, is dead. He was 85. Read Kotaku's obit below. Here, from 1992, is quite possibly the only Mariners-related interview Yamauchi ever granted to a me...
Mariners Players Pay Tribute To Ken Griffey Jr. In Perfect Fashion
So this is awesome. On Saturday, the Seattle Mariners inducted legendary center fielder Ken Griffey Jr. into the team's hall of fame. During the hour-long ceremony (you can watch the whole thing here), all of the current Mariners stood at the top step of the dugout, and honored Griffey Jr. by wearin...
Raul Ibañez Made A Throw Only Raul Ibañez Could Make
This man is a professional athlete!...