Charlie Furbush

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Mid-Season Evaluation

The all star break is always a good time to stop and evaluate a season. It’s easy to just see at the 36-51 record and call it a bad season, but let’s look at the specific goods and bads from the season…Read More

A Furry Surprise: Start Charlie?

I was partaking in a baseball quiz on ESPN radio Friday afternoon when out popped the question, “which reliever has the lowest WHIP this season?” Fantasy gurus know exactly what WHIP is, but to clarify,…Read More

Two Peas in an Anti-Run Prevention Pod

Riley wrote on Sunday that Blake Beavan is not a major league pitcher right now. I think he’s right. Pollster, Bryant Bartlett, polled you and 74% of you voted to either send him to the pen or to Tacoma.…Read More

How Long do They Have?

There comes a time in every season when you look at some of your players and ask, “How long do we give them before we take them out of the order/rotation?” Well the time to start asking these questions…Read More

George Sherrill’s elbow still attached, though not undamaged

George Sherrill has been bad. A bad pitcher that is. His stat line throughout spring was nothing to cheer about as he gave up 5 earned runs, 4 walks, and 6 hits in 5.1 innings. His struggles have only…Read More

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Seattle Finalizes Roster

Just yesterday I was pondering how much longer the Mariners would wait to trim a few loose strings. Today…Read More

No News Is Good News…Or Is It Just No News?

Well, we’ve come to that point where Spring Training lures us into a lull. Yes the Seattle Mariners…Read More

Camp Cut, Iwakuma Embarrassed

The signing never made much sense to me anyways. The Mariners cut Shawn Camp today in an attempt to give…Read More

Replacing Kuo

Well as Bryant just reported, Hong-Chih Kuo has been released by the Mariners. His struggles this spring…Read More

How Much Are the Mariners Really Counting On Iwakuma?

I love all the stories of Spring Training. We make bigger deals of a lot of things that simply require…Read More

Dog – Tree Limb – Taco Bell – Charlie Furbush

Oh, wow. How to start. Sometimes actually doing these opening monologues is difficult simply because…Read More

A Post I Was Going To Write Until It Backfired On Me

I appreciate snark. To various degrees and put more aptly, when it’s done in a way that doesn’t…Read More

The Mariners 2012 Rotation

I think its pretty clear that in 2011 the reason strength of the Seattle Mariners was the starting rotation,…Read More

Hisashi Iwakuma Signs With The Mariners, Cool

I’ve been thinking. Thinking a lot. This may surprise some of you, as I’m sure based upon…Read More

The Pitcher Factory Approach

Another week and another submission from our good friend Mac… I hope you enjoyed it as much as…Read More

The Epic, Grand, Amazing King For A Day: Off-Season Edition

Below you are about to be absorbed into my own little world. One that I’ve taken the better half of…Read More

The Mariners Scored More Runs Than The Other Team!

It hasn’t happened often this month.  In all of September, the Mariners had won only five games…Read More

Seedlings To Stars Takes A Look At Charlie Furbush

Nathan Stoltz of fansided’s own prospect blog Seedlings to Stars take’s a pitch f/x look…Read More

Mariners Walk All Over Angels, Still Lose

One of the reasons why I love baseball is that there has to be an end.  There is no running down of…Read More

Series Preview: Mariners at Rays

Ahoy, welcome aboard. Our Mariners forge out to sea, braving the colder waters of the Atlantic beneath…Read More