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In honor of March Madness, we at Sodo Mojo compiled 64 former and current Mariners and put them up against each other in bracket form, leaving you, the Mariners faithful, to decide who is your favorite Mariners player of all-time. These are the results of your votes after round one.
After hundreds of your votes, the results from the 1st round of your favorite Mariners player of all-time are in!
You have decided that this bracket will not be filled with as many upsets as March Madness, but there were a couple of surprises.
The 11th-seeded, Tino Martinez, upset 6th-seeded Alex Rodriguez in a battle that came down to the wire. Martinez narrowly beat out A-Rod with 52% of your votes. He was the second-highest seed to reach the 2nd round.
The highest was 12th-seeded, Willie Bloomquist, who beat out 5th-seeded, Julio Cruz. Sparking Bloomquist’s victory was likely his response to being part of the tournament.
Flattered I made the tourney! 😬 https://t.co/h3P6MbUhHf
— Willie Bloomquist (@williebloom) March 15, 2017
In other exciting match ups, 8th-seeded, Dave Valle edged out 9th-seeded, Dave Henderson, by one vote, 6th-seeded, Jim Presley, beat out 11th-seeded, Randy Winn, by one vote, and 7th-seeded, Da-ho Lee, bested 10th-seeded Rick Griffin by one vote.
On the flip side, there were also many blowouts. 3rd-seeded, Kyle Seager, 3rd-seeded, Dan Wilson, and top-seeded, Felix Hernandez took every single vote in their matchups. Nine other battles that had the higher seed took over 90% of your vote.
Below are the full results from the 1st round of the Mariners all-time favorite player bracket:
With the last match up of the 1st round we have skipper and 2 seed Lou Piniella vs 15 seed Jose Lopez #marchmadness #TrueToTheBlue #mariners
— SoDo Mojo (@SodoMojoFS) March 15, 2017
In one of the last match ups in this bracket we have 7 seed Freddy Garcia vs 10 seed Mark Langston #marchmadness #TrueToTheBlue #mariners
— SoDo Mojo (@SodoMojoFS) March 15, 2017
In a match up between new and old we have 3 seed Kyle Seager vs 14 Floyd Bannister #Mariners #marchmadness #TrueToTheBlue
— SoDo Mojo (@SodoMojoFS) March 15, 2017
Next is 6 seed John Olerud vs 11 seed Tom Wilhelmsen #marchmadness #TrueToTheBlue #mariners
— SoDo Mojo (@SodoMojoFS) March 15, 2017
From one closer to another we have 4 seed @ncboomstick23 vs 13 seed closer Kazuhiro Sasaki #MarchMadness #mariners #TrueToTheBlue
— SoDo Mojo (@SodoMojoFS) March 15, 2017
Next we have 5 seed Mike Cameron vs 12 seed @EdiDiaz44 #marchmadness #TrueToTheBlue #mariners
— SoDo Mojo (@SodoMojoFS) March 15, 2017
In a battle of the Dave's we have 8 seed Dave Valle vs 9 seed Dave Handerson #marchmadness #TrueToTheBlue #mariners
— SoDo Mojo (@SodoMojoFS) March 15, 2017
In the last conference we start with the voice of 1 seed Dave Neihaus vs 16 seed Mike Zunino #marchmadness #TrueToTheBlue #mariners
— SoDo Mojo (@SodoMojoFS) March 15, 2017
Rounding out that conference is 2 seed Randy Johnson vs 15 seed Chris Bosio #marchmadness #mariners #TrueToTheBlue
— SoDo Mojo (@SodoMojoFS) March 15, 2017
In the next match up with 7 seed Mike Blowers vs 10 seed Jeff Nelson #marchmadness #TrueToTheBlue #mariners
— SoDo Mojo (@SodoMojoFS) March 15, 2017
Next is 3 seed @jmo50Moyer vs 14 seed Joel Pineiro #marchmadness #Mariners #TrueToTheBlue
— SoDo Mojo (@SodoMojoFS) March 15, 2017
In the next match up @MLBNetwork's Harold Reynolds a 6 seed takes on 11 seed Arthur Rhodes #marchmadness #TrueToTheBlue #mariners
— SoDo Mojo (@SodoMojoFS) March 15, 2017
Next we have 4 seed @RobinsonCano vs 13 seed @James_Paxton #mariners #TrueToTheBlue #marchmadness
— SoDo Mojo (@SodoMojoFS) March 15, 2017
Moving along we have 5 seed Franklin Gutierrez vs 12 seed Phil Bradley #marchmadness #TrueToTheBlue #mariners
— SoDo Mojo (@SodoMojoFS) March 15, 2017
In the next match up we have 8 seed Omar Vizquel vs 9 seed Mark McLemore #marchmadness #mariners #TrueToTheBlue
— SoDo Mojo (@SodoMojoFS) March 15, 2017
Beginning the right side of the bracket we have 1 seed @RealKingFelix vs Matt Moore #marchmadness #mariners #TrueToTheBlue
— SoDo Mojo (@SodoMojoFS) March 15, 2017
Rounding out this half of the bracket is 2 seed Ichiro vs 15 seed @leonys27martin #marchmadness #mariners #TrueToTheBlue
— SoDo Mojo (@SodoMojoFS) March 15, 2017
Towards the bottom half of this conference we have 7 seed Norm Charlton vs 10 seed Kenji Johjima #marchmadness #TrueToTheBlue #mariners
— SoDo Mojo (@SodoMojoFS) March 15, 2017
Continuing on we have 3 seed Dan Wilson vs 14 seed Spike Owens #marchmadness #TrueToTheBlue #mariners
— SoDo Mojo (@SodoMojoFS) March 15, 2017
Next is a big match up between 6 seed Alex Rodriguez vs 11 seed Tino Martinez #marchmadness #mariners #TrueToTheBlue
— SoDo Mojo (@SodoMojoFS) March 15, 2017
Moving down the line we have 4 seed Raul Ibanez vs 13 seed JJ Putz #marchmadness #mariners #TrueToTheBlue
— SoDo Mojo (@SodoMojoFS) March 15, 2017
Next we have 5 seed Julio Cruz vs 12 seed @williebloom #marchmadness #mariners #TrueToTheBlue
— SoDo Mojo (@SodoMojoFS) March 15, 2017
Next up 8 seed Hisashi Iwakuma vs. 9 seed Carlos Guillen #marchmadness #mariners #TrueToTheBlue
— SoDo Mojo (@SodoMojoFS) March 15, 2017
In the next conference we have the next 1 seed @11EdgarMartinez vs our 3rd announcer 16 seed Ron Fairly #TrueToTheBlue #marchmadness
— SoDo Mojo (@SodoMojoFS) March 15, 2017
Rounding out the conference 2 seed Jay Buhner takes on 15 seed @tai_walker #mariners #TrueToTheBlue #marchmadness
— SoDo Mojo (@SodoMojoFS) March 15, 2017
With two match ups left in this conference we have 7 seed Dae-ho Lee vs 10 seed Rick Griffin #marchmadness #mariners #TrueToTheBlue
— SoDo Mojo (@SodoMojoFS) March 15, 2017
Continuing on we have another announcer 3 seed Rick Rizzs vs 14 seed Kendrys Morales #marchmadness #TrueToTheBlue #mariners
— SoDo Mojo (@SodoMojoFS) March 15, 2017
Continuing on we have 6 seed Jim Presley vs 11 seed Randy Winn #marchmadness #TrueToTheBlue #mariners
— SoDo Mojo (@SodoMojoFS) March 15, 2017
Moving down the bracket we have 4 seed Alvin Davis vs 13 seed Seth Smith #marchmadness #TrueToTheBlue #mariners
— SoDo Mojo (@SodoMojoFS) March 15, 2017
In the same conference we have 5 seed @theboone29 vs. 12 seed Joey Cora #marchmadness #TrueToTheBlue #mariners
— SoDo Mojo (@SodoMojoFS) March 15, 2017
Next up in our #marchmadness your #Mariners favorite player bracket 8 seed Adrian Beltre vs 9 seed Richie Sexson #TrueToTheBlue
— SoDo Mojo (@SodoMojoFS) March 15, 2017
It's #marchmadness so let your #Mariners favorite bracket begin! Starting with the 1st 1 seed: Ken Griffey Jr. vs. 16 seed: @TheDaveSimsShow
— SoDo Mojo (@SodoMojoFS) March 15, 2017
Stay tuned for the 2nd round of your favorite Mariners player of all-time! Voting will start tomorrow morning so be glued in to our Twitter @SodoMojoFS so you can make your voice heard! Who will you vote for? Will the top seeds survive or will there be some more upsets? Only you can decide.