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Seattle Mariners Top Five Prospects In 2013

This week, Jonathan Mayo of MLB.com compiled the top 100 prospects in the league. The Mariners’ farm system ranked near the top of both the American and National League, with three prospects in…Read More

AFL Mariners Update

The Peoria Javelinas have quickly ascended to the top of the Arizona Fall League with just over three weeks left in offseason play. While the collective progress of the club means little, the contributions…Read More

The Success of Past Prospects

Ryan Anderson, Ryan Christianson, Chris Snelling, Antonio Perez, Clint Nageotte, Jose Lopez, Travis Blackley, Jeremy Reed, Jeff Clement, Phillippe Aumont, Greg Halman, and Adam Moore. I’m guessing that…Read More

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

Checking In With The Big Three

As the Mariners rotation continues to shift, most recently with an Erasmo Ramirez-Blake Beavan swap, more focus is being placed on the young up-and-comers in Double-A. According to Geoff Baker, Danny…Read More

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Replacing Kuo

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

Top Pitching Prospect All Sent Down

It seems that the future isn’t quite here for the trio of young stud pitchers in the Mariners…Read More

Comparing Prospects List

Last year I did this and it seemed to be a big hit so I thought I’d put together quick compairson…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

Thoughts On Why Prince Fielder Might Consider the Mariners

There has been a lot of talk about Prince Fielder and supposedly there is talk that “this”…Read More

M’s have 4 of top 100 MLB Prospects

Well, at least according got Scout.com that is. They released their updated rankings today, and I thought…Read More

Making A Splash

Okay, I’ve been fighting the urge to make a splash all season, all off-season. I’ve been…Read More

Mid-Season 2011 Top-10 Prospects

Well here we go. It’s been 2 months of hard work and there is still work to be done on the back…Read More

Obvious Upgrades, Outfielders and Other Assorted Things

I made a comment the other night on twitter that there wasn’t much room for an upgrade on this…Read More

Thoughts on Taijuan Walker

  Taijuan Walker is easily the best pitcher in the minor league system. That includes James Paxton…Read More

Catching Back-Up

Well, after about five days and 1500+ miles on the road across 4 states in 3 different stadiums I’m…Read More

Some Encouraging Numbers From Minor Leaguers

This year the Minor Leagues kind of got off to a slow start with a few guys not hitting very well and…Read More

The Mariners And 2011 Draft Strategy

I’ve trying to put off this post for nearly three months now. Not because I didn’t want…Read More

Thoughts on Mariner Movement

So like you read everywhere else the Mariners made the first move of the spring. Yada, yada, yada. It’s…Read More

Paxton Signing Imminent

I’m kind of late to the party and all but there is a reason for it, you know besides having a life.…Read More