By James Bailey There comes a time for every man to walk away from the game. Unfortunately, most don’t recognize it until it’s too late, until someone else has to tell them. For many this comes in the form of a phone that never rings over the winter. Spring training begins without them, and months [...]
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By James Bailey With just 72 runs over their first 19 games (ahead of only Baltimore and Cleveland in the American League), the Mariners are pushing the limits on their pitching and defense approach. Despite a promising 3.41 ERA for a team missing its second best starter, Seattle is a game under .500, third in [...]
By James Bailey It’s too early to panic or celebrate, with only a week in the books. But one week of regular season says more than a month of spring training. What have we learned so far? Roy Halladay is even better in the National League. Jon Rauch might just be up to the task [...]
By James Bailey Now that the Mariners have locked up young ace Felix Hernandez for the next five years we can speculate where he might rank in franchise history by the time his $78 million contract expires after the 2014 season. The club has seen its share of pitchers come and go over its 33-year [...]
By James Bailey The Cubs had to unload Milton Bradley. He was damaged goods in Chicago after incidents that led to his suspension at the end of last season. With two years left on Bradley’s three-year, $30 million deal, Cubs GM Jim Hendry had no choice but to move one of the worst contracts he’d [...]
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By Thom Henninger As a team in 2009, the Seattle Mariners posted a .314 OBP that was the worst in the American League. They are expected to take a big step to remedy that weakness by announcing a four-year deal with free agent Chone Figgins on Monday.
By James Bailey Ken Griffey Jr.’s return to the Mariners was the hit of spring training for a franchise looking for positives after a woeful 61-101 showing in 2008. Griffey was back in the fans’ good graces after losing some of his luster by demanding a trade following a 1999 season in which he led [...]
By James Bailey The Russell Branyan experiment is looking pretty good for Mariners GM Jack Zduriencik right about now. Zduriencik, who came over from the Brewers in the offseason to replace Bill Bavasi as the head man in Seattle, knew Branyan from their time together in Milwaukee. He lured the corner infielder to the Northwest [...]
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By James Bailey Four first-rounders, including two of the top 10 players selected in the MLB draft Tuesday night, will be playing in the College World Series in Omaha, starting this weekend. All of the games will be televised on ESPN and ESPN2, giving fans an opportunity to catch these prospects in action before they [...]
By Bill Begley All around North Texas, long-suffering Rangers fans look at the standings and wonder one thing: When does the collapse come? Can you blame them? The last time Texas made the playoffs was a decade ago, in 1999, and in the meantime the franchise has stumbled through second-half meltdowns (not counting Kenny Rogers’ [...]
