The Mariners, as you well know, recently dealt young fireballer Brandon Morrow to the Blue Jays for a reliever and Wladimir Balentien lookalike. This move has been questioned by everyone from bloggers to the media to Jack Zduriencik’s own mother, and why not?  Z dealt one of the Mariners’ top pitching prospects to the Jays [...]

The Mariners secured what has to be assumed as Rob Johnson insurance. They signed Josh Bard to a minor league contract and gave him an invitation to spring training.
Bard is not going to bring much if anything at all to the table offensively. At the very best he could present “match-up” problems.
Defensively, he doesn’t really look to be [...]

The Mariners signed Corey Patterson earlier this past month and there were not a lot of things made of it, aside from a complete blogosphere roll of the eyes.
Lets face it. Patterson’s career is on very thin ice if it’s not already over. Furthermore, him signing a minor league contract tells me he concedes to that fact.
Patterson, while he [...]

I’ve been thinking about the first base situation. Of course there are a lot of different solutions that can be applied to solve our problem.
Prerequisites of what I would like to think we are looking for:
The ability to show some power – Someone that has shown a past tendency to hit an ISO of +.170. Power is a [...]

I’m hoping for a life-sized Billy Butler to play first base, and maybe another solid starting pitcher.
What’s your baseball-related Christmas list look like?
Griffin’s note: Just wanted to pop in and say Merry Christmas and happy holiday’s to all of you, and thanks a ton for reading over the last ~8 months. All 3 of us [...]