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Monday, March 7th, 2011
In an offseason that saw general manager Jack Zduriencik ink Chone Figgins and trade for Cliff Lee there were many baseball fans in Seattle thinking the American League West was just going to be a stepping stone for the Mariners in 2010. The unthinkable ensued in what turned out to ...
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Thursday, February 24th, 2011
When the Seattle Mariners traded away five players to land Erik Bedard prior to the 2008 season, they surely thought they had landed a pitcher in his prime who might not light up the league, but would at worst be a solid left handed addition to their staff. Well, Bedard ...
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Friday, November 19th, 2010
In what some believe was a stunning decision, the Seattle Mariners’ starting pitcher Felix Hernandez won the American League Cy Young Award with a 13-12 record. People had been talking about him winning the award, but many were worried about the voters focusing too much on win-loss records, which proved ...
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Thursday, October 21st, 2010
After he was fired in Cleveland following a 96 loss season in 2009, Eric Wedge decided to take a year off from the game of baseball. After one year away, Wedge is back managing a new team. He will become the seventh manager for the Mariners since 2003. For a ...
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Friday, August 27th, 2010
At this time last year, all seemed to be going so well for Don Wakamatsu. He and his coaching staff in Seattle were putting the finishing touches on a fairly impressive turnaround for the Mariners, who finished 24 games better in Wakamatsu's first year than they were the previous year.
What ...
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Thursday, June 24th, 2010
In a move that came as a bit of a surprise this offseason, the Phillies acquired Roy Halladay from the Blue Jays at the expense of Cliff Lee, who was then sent to the Mariners in what was a four-team trade. For Lee, going to Seattle has been quite an ...
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Friday, June 4th, 2010
I’m only 26-years old so there are many major league baseball players that I have never seen in my day. However, I know that Ken Griffey Jr. was the greatest player that I’ve ever seen in my life. At the time I was growing up, Griffey was in his prime ...
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Thursday, June 3rd, 2010
Junior has called it a career. After last starting on May 23rd, then sitting eight days before making even a pinch hit appearance, Ken Griffey Jr. informed the Seattle Mariners that he would be retiring. It's not exactly the way he and M's fans would have liked to have seen ...
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Monday, May 10th, 2010
A focus on defense up the middle and the addition of former AL Cy Young winner Cliff Lee to an already good rotation, had pundits buzzing about the Seattle Mariners before the season. Regression by the Los Angeles Angels and injury concerns to the Texas Rangers and Oakland A's had ...
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Wednesday, April 28th, 2010
Seattle Mariners starting pitcher Cliff Lee is set to make his 2010 debut on Friday after having missed the first month of the season recovering from an abdominal strain he suffered during spring training. Seattle is in good shape through the first 20+ games of the season. They're a game ...
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