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As Chris from Bothell noted on the Lincecum thread, Bob Nightengale of USA Today sent out a tweet that has Mariner fans all atwitter. Here's how it read in its entirety: "Keep and eye on developing three-way trade talk with Tigers and Mariners and mystery team involving M's Brandon Morrow a...

By Jim Street Seattle figures to be only slightly more active in the free-agent market this year than it was a year ago. But GM Jack Zduriencik has been tight-lipped about his intentions. Mariners remain mum on FA intentions

After shortstop Jack Wilson arrived in Seattle in a trade last summer, it didn't take long for him to know he wanted to stay.

SEATTLE -- The Seattle Mariners will keep shortstop Jack Wilson in Seattle through 2011. Wilson was acquired from Pittsburgh on July 29, along with pitcher Ian Snell, for infielder Ronny Cedeno, catcher Jeff Clement and three minor league pitchers.

Griffey signed for one more year with Mariners because he loves playing baseball more than he loves being a baseball star.

Outfielder likely to play a reduced role in 2010.

Ken Griffey Jr. and the Mariners are closing in on a deal for another one-year contract.

By By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SEATTLE (AP) -- Ken Griffey Jr. and the Mariners are closing in on a deal for another one-year contract.

By Jim Street Ken Griffey Jr. and the Mariners reached agreement Wednesday on a one-year contract, perhaps the final pact of the slugger's Hall of Fame career. Griffey returning for another season

Johjima hit .268 in his four seasons with Seattle, including 84 doubles, 48 home runs and 198 RBIs in 462 games. Johjima holds the American League record for hits by a rookie catcher (147 in 2006). His 18 homers in his first season tied the Mariners club mark for homers by a catcher.

If the 18-year-old pitcher signs with an MLB team, it could have ramifications for the sometimes tenuous relationship between MLB and Nippon Professional Baseball, which has already seen many of its star players, such as Ichiro, Hideki Matsui and Daisuke Matsuzaka, flee to the States...

By DrDetecto At SSI, we're starting to get excited about Kershaw-san. At Mariner Central, Lonnie with a gem.  (Also don't miss his View From On High.  Great change-of-pace from the all-saber-all-the-time.) Were you wondering whether Junior might retire?  He won't.  Good for him.  And he gives us another...

What's your favorite moment this season? For my part, I've gotta pick the 14 inning 1-0 game against the White Sox, where Griffey pinch-hit for the winning run. As soon as he was called up, everyone at Safeco, even Ozzie Guillen and the White Sox, and everyone watching and listening at home,...

UPDATE 8:39 P.M.: On th e night Ken Griffey hits his 629th homer, Adam Moore hits his first, and in the process becomes the 22nd different M's player to homer this year, a new club record. It came off Jeff Gray on a 2-1 pitch, to right field. 7-0 Mariners.

Ken Griffey Jr. hit a three-run homer and Brandon Morrow allowed one hit over eight impressive innings, sending the Seattle Mariners to a 7-0 victory over the Oakland Athletics on Wednesday night.

The future Hall of Famer isn't saying whether he will or won't return for another season

If Felix Hernandez had a Cy Young vote, he'd cast it for Kansas City's Zack Greinke. The batters who faced Hernandez on Thursday night might find it difficult to vote for anyone but the Seattle ace.

PHILADELPHIA -- The Washington Nationals have acquired catcher Jamie Burke from the Seattle Mariners for cash. The 37-year-old Burke is a career .282 hitter with three home runs and 38 RBIs in 184 games over seven seasons. He played in 13 games with Seattle this season.

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Ichiro sets record with 9th 200-hit season Ichiro beat out an infield single to become the first player in major league history with at least 200 in nine straight seasons as the Mariners beat the Texas Rangers 5-0 to split a doubleheader after losing the opener 7-2.

KANSAS CITY, MO. – Twenty-four hours after they were one run better than the team with the American League’s worst record, the Seattle Mariners faced that same team again and won by five.

Ken Griffey Jr. hit his 622nd career home run and Felix Hernandez pitched seven solid innings to lead the Seattle Mariners to a 7-2 win over the Texas Rangers on Saturday night.

Washburn is having a tremendous season and he has been a quality major league starter throughout his career," Tigers general manager Dave Dombrowski said. Washburn is 106-106 since making his big league debut for the Angels in 1998.

This is how badly the Seattle Mariners wanted to beat the Texas Rangers in this four-game series – they even scored for Jarrod Washburn.

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Former Mariners general manager Bill Bavasi and scouting director Bob Fontaine Jr. used the fifth pick of the 2006 draft on Morrow of Cal, where team owner Howard Lincoln graduated. That left Lincecum, the nation's best college pitcher, for the Giants ...

The Mariners have now scored one or zero runs in 10 games this season, and two runs in four others. By Larry Stone TONY GUTIERREZ / AP Seattle Mariners starting pitcher Jason Vargas looks at the ball between batters in the third inning of a baseball ...

By Dave Cameron The teams that were expected to be in the market for power bats were Tampa Bay, Oakland, Seattle, Anaheim, the Yankees, the Cubs, Atlanta, and maybe Washington. The Rays got Burrell, the A’s got Matt Holiday and Jason Giambi, the Mariners signed Russell Branyan, the Yankees signed Mark Te...

By Matthew Carruth A week ago over on USS Mariner, Dave Cameron brought up the Seattle Mariners current glut of starting pitchers and, explored a little further in the comments, brought up the topic of what to do with Erik Bedard’s future might or might not be. It is a fascinating case study for what was perhaps...

By Administrator In his first trade, new Seattle general manager Jack Zduriencik also received five-tool outfield prospect Franklin Gutierrez from the Indians. For its part, Cleveland got Smith (from the Mets) and 23-year-old second baseman Luis Valbuena from the Mariners.

Here’s the bright side of owning a baseball team that won fewer than 38% of its games last year: You can experiment in your efforts to improve the team, and your fans will support you. Change is the buzzword these days, and Seattle Mariners owner Hiroshi Yamauchi is embracing it by hiring two...

INSIDE PITCH New general manager Jack Zduriencik spent a week interviewing the seven men who are on his short list to be the next Mariners manager. None of the seven Red Sox bench coach Brad Mills, White Sox bench coach Joey Cora, Diamondbacks third base coach Chip Hale, A's bench coach Don W...

Orioles president Andy MacPhail decided that it was best for the team to keep all of its pieces at the nonwaiver trade deadline. After weeks of speculation surrounding several Orioles players, especially closer George Sherrill, the team didn’t make any moves. What does this mean for the f...

When Richie Sexson was released by the Mariners, he was batting a league-low .218. The Yankees ' signing of Richie Sexson and the Phillies ' trade for Joe Blanton - patch-the-tire transactions each- just ...

Headed into the Fourth of July weekend, “The Pitch” — presented by Liveboard — celebrates the Rays’ ridiculous run to the best record in baseball by eating crow for host Brandon Rosage’s 2006 comments ridiculing Tampa Bay for changing its team name. The tribute comes a day after the Rays fi...

And the program spends the better part of the hour covering every division in baseball, highlighting the return of Mark Teixeira to Texas, the resurgent Rockies, the streaking Tigers on the back of Marcus Thames, the impact of Alfonso Soriano’s injury on Chicago, Hank Steinbrenner’s a...

By Rob(noreply@blogger.com) I also got to see David Eckstein, who the Angels picked off of waivers last year, and who is one of the few Angels prospects I like. What really impressed me was how fast he was on the basepaths. He went 2-for-4 with a double to center field on which he tore out of the batter's box and got to second al...

Mariners base runner Kenji Johjima slides safely past Tigers catcher Ivan Rodriguez into home on a stolen base in the fourth inning. ... Hernandez gets scare vs. Tigers MLB.com A long time coming for ‘King Felix’ TheNewsTribune.com Hernandez pitches Seattle to victory The Spokesman Review

The program does not, however, condone the pre-meditated use of a batting helmet as a mound-charging weapon, as Mariners first baseman Richie Sexson employed at the close of MLB’s Week 6 against the Rangers. The guys ask “If there’s room for fighting in baseball, where is it?”

By Rob Also, re the Mariners (all emphasis mine): The AL version of the Diamondbacks a year ago, the Mariners didn’t come into 2008 with the kind of offensive upside the Snakes have, which is the biggest difference between the two teams. The M's have a .254 EqA and 117 runs scored, about a run a game le...

By Deanna Jarrod Washburn, aka J-Rod the Washburninator, started for the Mariners. Zack Greinke, who I thought had gone insane, started for the Royals. Hey, if Washburn basically walks, strikes out, or gives up a home run to every batter he faces, does that make him a Three True Outcomes pitcher?" I a...

Mariners offense needs upgrading That leaves Ichiro, Raul Ibanez, Adrian Beltre, Kenji Johjima and Yuniesky Betancourt — who are fairly easy to predict — with the two main sources of power ... Angels Beat Mariners 10-5 The Associated Press

The guys spend the remainder of the hour covering missing team previews for the Colorado Rockies, Houston Astros, Cincinnati Reds, Seattle Mariners, Kansas City Royals and Toronto Blue Jays. To jump to and listen to a specific team preview, select the team below… Colorado RockiesCinci...

By Leitch Today: The Seattle Mariners. Your author is Seth Kolloen. Bedard, who was 3-0 with a 2.07 ERA in five starts against the Yankees and Red Sox last year, will pair with Felix Hernandez to give the M's the best one-two punch in the American League.

By Jeff Kallman But that’s just when he’s brushed back, merely. Watching one take aim at his cranium is another story. On Thursday night, that—and not the Angels shrinking their magic number for clinching the American League West to one, not Scioscia’s 700th win as the Angels’ field boss—became the story.

By Adam J. Morris Derek Zumsteg thinks the Mariners are going to try to dump Richie Sexson this offseason.  Zumsteg suggests that the organization wants Adam Jones to be an everyday player in 2008, and to accomplish that, they'd have to make room for Jones.  Moving Sexson would allow an outfield of Jones, Ic...

By Ian Casselberry I feel like I may have jinxed the Tigers last Sunday when using the "s" word.  Instead, the Mariners hung a 14-7 loss on the Tigers and Jeremy Bonderman's elbow inflamed with pain, making us weep.  So there will be no "s" word used today.  I will just point out that Detroit has a chance to win a thir...

By Mike Fahey The Seattle Mariners and Nintendo are thanking fans for helping make the Nintendo Fan Network (NFN) at Safeco Field a success. The first 1,500 Fans who bring their Nintendo DS to the game on Saturday, Sept. 15, when the Mariners take on the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, will be offered free access to t...

Beltre, Sexson power Mariners past Twins Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, PA - AP Photo/Paul Battaglia AP Interview with Hank Aaron MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Adrian Beltre and Richie Sexson hit consecutive home runs, Jarrod Washburn won for ...

• Mariner Moose Is Doing The Antler Dance. OK, before we get to the vital statistics, let us just say that Safeco Field has the best food in baseball. Also one of the best views, if you hang out in a certain section of the upper deck at night. This may not even be relevant, considering that the Marin...

• My favorite Mariners in the 1980s (in order): Phil Bradley, Mark Langston, Danny Tartabull (until he went to Kansas City), and Alvin Davis. Yikes. Thank God for Steve Largent and Dave Krieg. • Former Mariners in the Baseball Hall of Fame: Gaylord Perry. Really. That's it. He pitched with the M'...

 - himself. And even Bloomquist admits that his greatest value to the Mariners as currently constructed is as a utility player. It's ... Indians chatter Cleveland Plain Dealer all 2 related