Eric Wedge has to worry about everything, Carl Willis only the pitching staff – which means the Seattle Mariners’ trip to Japan and back has given Willis a logistical headache.
Miguel Olivo and Kyle Seager hit back-to-back homers to highlight a six-run sixth inning in Seattle's 6-4 spring training win over Kansas City.
For the first time since the late George Steinbrenner was in vintage ax-wielding mode, firing front-office staffers on Christmas Eve and implementing 364 days of hell on those whose jobs he spared, the New York Yankees took a low-key approach to free agency this past winter.
PEORIA, Ariz. – Cactus League rules require that teams have four regular-season starters in their exhibition lineups, a law usually but not always followed – and on Saturday, the Seattle Mariners didn’t even try.
PEORIA, Ariz. – Tom Wilhelmsen needed only a pinch of Japanese soil to add to an international collection, and he didn’t get it.
Kevin Millwood struck out eight batters and gave up just one run in seven innings Saturday, leading the Seattle Mariners to a 6-1 win over the San Diego Padres in spring training.
After two days of living off energy drinks and virtually no sleep to broadcast Mariners games being played in the middle of the night, TV producer Curtis Wilson was understandably a bit foggy.
TOKYO – Time to go.
My fearless forecast for the 2012 baseball season:
Euphoric after a rousing victory in the season opener, the Seattle Mariners crashed hard Thursday, reverting to the feeble offense that marked the past two seasons, while the bullpen allowed a cascade of long balls in a 4-1 loss to the Oakland Athletics at the Tokyo Dome.
Euphoric after a rousing victory in the season opener, the Seattle Mariners crashed hard Thursday, reverting to the offensive feebleness that marked the past two years, while allowing a cascade of long balls in a 4-1 loss to the Oakland Athletics at the Tokyo Dome.
Seattle Mariners outfielder Mike Carp was placed on the 15-day disabled list Thursday after suffering a sprained right shoulder.
TOKYO – Now he shows us.
TOKYO – The Seattle Mariners will spend at least one day of the 2012 season in first place after opening the season with a 3-1, 11-inning triumph over the Oakland A’s in the Tokyo Dome. Dustin Ackley drove in two runs with a home run and a go-ahead RBI single, but the show belonged to Ichiro Suzuki.
Dustin Ackley hit a solo home run and knocked in the go-ahead run in the top of the 11th inning, helping the Seattle Mariners edge the Oakland Athletics, 3-1, in the first game of the 2012 Major League Baseball season from the Tokyo Dome.
A simple question for Mariners fans: Do you know the score?
ISHINOMAKI, Japan – Awkward as the thing was, Eric Wedge caught a glimpse.
The Seattle Mariners placed outfielder Franklin Gutierrez and catcher Adam Moore on the 15-day disabled list retroactive to March 24 on Tuesday.
TOKYO — Long known as the Yankees of Japan, the Yomiuri Giants lived up to that standard Monday night at the Tokyo Dome. But did the Mariners have to be the Bad News Bears of MLB?
Long known as the Yankees of Japan, the Yomiuri Giants lived up to the standard Monday night at the Tokyo Dome. But did the Mariners have to be the Bad News Bears of MLB?
TOKYO – For as much as Munenori Kawasaki idolizes his Seattle Mariners teammate and countryman, Ichiro, he emulates him not at all.
The world outside of Seattle cannot accept that Felix Abraham Hernandez is not bitter. ... Acknowledged as one of the best pitchers in baseball at age 25, Hernandez is one game over .500 in his past two seasons with Seattle, yet expresses not a whit of bitterness or angst.
TOKYO – The Mariners flew 4,800 miles to their owner’s homeland, but it wasn’t quite enough to get Hiroshi Yamauchi to the ballyard to see his team play.
Talk to his players, his coaches, the men who hired him and Eric Wedge gets described as intense, passionate, honest – but ask them for something about a time he smiled …
The Mariners flew 4,800 miles to the owner's homeland, but it wasn't quite enough to get Hiroshi Yamauchi to the ballyard to see his team play.
NARITA, Japan – About 300 fans greeted the Seattle Mariners and Oakland Athletics after the teams landed at Tokyo’s Narita Airport, with Mariners outfielder Ichiro Suzuki drawing most of the attention as the team made its way through the terminal.
Wearing a pork-pie hat and high-water jeans, the hipster at baggage claim looked a little familiar, except he was just about alone.
For two-and-a-half months, the Mariners stayed close in the American League West. They trailed Texas by just a half-game at 37-35 on June 19 after taking two-of-three at home from NL powerhouse Philadelphia . However, the wheels completely came off after that thanks to a franchise-record 17-game losing streak, the majors' worst stretch since the Kansas City Royals dropped 19 in a row in 2005.
It's hard to believe, but we are closing in on the start of the Major League Baseball season.
PEORIA, Ariz. - The most widely-traveled of the Seattle Mariners might just be Tom Wilhelmsen, the 28-year-old reliever who quit baseball in 2004 to see the world.
On the eve of the Seattle Mariners’ flight to Japan, manager Eric Wedge announced who was in his starting rotation – and who was not.
Alexei Ramirez went 3-for-4 with three RBI and a run scored as the Chicago White Sox defeated the Seattle Mariners, 13-8, in Cactus League action.
The Seattle Mariners released pitcher Shawn Camp on Wednesday.
PEORIA, Ariz. – Kevin Millwood finished making his case to start for the Seattle Mariners with authority Tuesday, allowing a run in five innings against the Cincinnati Reds.
Carlos Peguero hit a homer and finished with four runs batted in to help Seattle past Cincinnati, 8-1, in spring training action.
PEORIA, Ariz. – A day after saying he was getting better, left-handed reliever Hong-Chih Kuo was released by the Seattle Mariners, who simply didn’t see improvement from his first game to his last.
David DeJesus went 2-for-3, drove in two runs and scored another, and the Cubs belted out 18 hits en route to a 12-7 spring- training win over the Mariners.
The Seattle Mariners released pitcher Hong-Chih Kuo on Monday.
PEORIA, Ariz. – Of the 34 Seattle Mariners pitchers who have appeared in a Cactus League game this spring, Hong-Chih Kuo had the 33rd highest earned run average.
Sunday's Cactus League contest between the Seattle Mariners and Colorado Rockies was cancelled due to rain in the fifth inning.
The Seattle Mariners cut seven players Saturday, six of them pitchers, to get their in-camp roster to 40 players – just a few days before flying to Japan with a crew of 30.
The Seattle Mariners cut seven players – six of them pitchers – Saturday morning, and none of them was Blake Beavan, who then allowed one run in four innings against the Chicago White Sox.
Eduardo Escobar hit a three-run home run to lift the Chicago White Sox to a 5-0 win over the Seattle Mariners in Cactus League action.
PEORIA, Ariz. – The only organization Mike Wilson has played for since he was drafted in 2001, the Seattle Mariners, dropped him from the team’s 40-man roster just before spring training.
Josh Reddick ripped a two-run double in the first inning to help push Oakland to a 6-1 victory over Seattle in spring training action on Friday.
Alex Liddi went 3-for-5 with a two-run home run as the Seattle Mariners topped the Milwaukee Brewers, 6-1, on Friday in Cactus League action.
PEORIA, Ariz. – He was once a young pitcher trying to make the team out of spring training, like Blake Beavan, and now Kevin Millwood is the veteran looking for one more summer.
Brandon Belt went 3-for-5 with a double and a run scored as the San Francisco Giants topped the Seattle Mariners, 7-5, in Cactus League action on Thursday.
PEORIA, Ariz. – This is Mike Carp’s fourth spring with the Seattle Mariners, although he likes to point out it seems like the fourth team he’s been to camp with.
Michael Saunders and Vinnie Catricala knocked in two runs apiece as the Seattle Mariners downed the Kansas City Royals, 6-2, on Wednesday.
PEORIA, Ariz. – Seattle Mariners outfielder Michael Saunders dropped six bunt singles in his rookie season in 2009, though this spring – hitting .409 – he hasn’t focused much on bunting.
Justin Smoak finished with two hits and scored twice and Dustin Ackley drove in a pair of runs, as Seattle used a five-run ninth to edge Milwaukee, 7-4, in Cactus League play.
PEORIA, Ariz. – Third base is one crowded bag for the Seattle Mariners this spring, what with Chone Figgins, Kyle Seager, Alex Liddi and rookie Vinnie Catricala playing the position.
Blake Beavan threw 64 pitches in his third Cactus League start Monday, and one of them reminded him of the razor-thin difference between the majors and the minors.
Miguel Olivo clubbed a three-run homer and the Seattle Mariners posted a 6-4 win over the Texas Rangers in Cactus League play.
PEORIA, Ariz. – Erasmo Ramirez was the lone member of the Seattle Mariners spring phenom club not to be sent to the minor leagues Sunday.
Carl Willis spent the first part of his morning Sunday praising young pitchers Dan Hultzen, James Paxton and Taijuan Walker, who’d all pitched well the night before.
Hector Sanchez hit a pinch-hit, two-run homer in the sixth inning and added a solo blast in the eighth, as the Giants edged the Mariners, 7-5 in spring training.
PEORIA, Ariz. – Hisashi Iwakuma is one of the rare pitchers who has thrown as many as 200 innings in the shorter Japanese baseball season (Pacific League pitchers threw 200 or more innings nine times from 2008-11, twice by Iwakuma).
Carlos Guillen’s retirement announcement the past week brought to mind the 2004 trade that sent the Seattle shortstop to Detroit in exchange for Ramon Santiago and minor leaguer Juan Gonzalez – not to be confused with former major league slugger Juan Gonzalez.
The day he arrived in camp, more than three dozen Seattle Mariners pitchers did, too – and John Jaso had never caught any of them.
Offseason acquisition Jesus Montero had a two-RBI double in the first to spark the Mariners' offense as Seattle topped Arizona 7-1 in spring training action on Saturday.
The Dodgers' Josh Fields hit a two-run single in the top of the eighth, proving to be the final runs in a 5-5 tie with the Mariners in Saturday's exhibition game.
PEORIA, Ariz. – Adam Moore’s injury may not be as bad as initial reports, which had the Seattle Mariners catcher entertaining thoughts of working in the bullpen.
PEORIA, Ariz. – Jason Vargas is an Everyman, an ordinary guy who has had to work long and hard to make the most of his talent as a big-league pitcher.
Ryan Roberts hit a three-run home run to lead the Arizona Diamondbacks to an 8-5 win over the Seattle Mariners in spring training play.
PEORIA, Ariz. – At 6-foot-5 and 245 pounds, Carlos Peguero is about as large as he plans on getting, which doesn’t mean he’s through growing.
PEORIA, Ariz. – In the span of three days, one fouled pitch changed the spring for Seattle Mariners catcher Adam Moore.
Dustin Ackley hit a three-run homer and Guillermo Quiroz added a two-run shot as the Seattle Mariners topped the Chicago Cubs, 10-3, in Cactus League action on Thursday.
Seattle Mariners catcher Adam Moore has been diagnosed with a fractured right wrist.
PEORIA, Ariz. – There’s a reason why most big-league players don’t like playing multiple positions – sooner or later, they’re going to be embarrassed.
PEORIA, Ariz. – Years like 2011 do not happen for 28-year-old rookies, which means Steve Delabar has quite the challenge in 2012.
Vinnie Catricala crushed a two-run home run that scored the decisive runs as Seattle held off the Los Angeles Angels, 6-4, in Cactus League action.
PEORIA, Ariz. – A marvelous big league career ended with dignity when Carlos Guillen, the veteran infielder in camp with the Seattle Mariners, announced his retirement Tuesday.
PEORIA, Ariz. – Felix Hernandez has been in spring training 23 days without facing a big league hitter, and in another 16 days he will be flying to Japan with his Seattle Mariners teammates.
Ichiro Suzuki went 3-for-3 with two RBI and a run scored as the Seattle Mariners slipped past the Cincinnati Reds, 8-6, in Cactus League play.
A marvelous big-league career ended with dignity when Carlos Guillen, the veteran infielder in camp with the Seattle Mariners, announced his retirement today. "Your body tells you, you know?"
Veteran infielder Carlos Guillen has decided to call it a career after 14 big league seasons.
PEORIA, Ariz. – There are still 67 Seattle Mariners in camp, the same as the day they all reported, and Eric Wedge stayed true to his word to each of them Monday.
Hisashi Iwakuma made his big-league spring debut Monday, and the man who hopes to open the season in the Seattle Mariners’ starting rotation had a short day.
Munenori Kawasaki drove in three runs to help the Seattle Mariners to a 13-7 win over the San Diego Padres.
When you’re trying to win a big-league job in a camp filled with men who play your primary position – third base – games like this one let you sleep well.
Historians looking at the Seattle Mariners’ 2011 season will say the team’s 17-game July losing streak was the low point – though few historians are closers. Brandon League is, and his first full season on the job last year didn’t include a single save opportunity during that 17-game drought.
Johermyn Chavez doubled in the game-winning run in the bottom of the ninth inning, and the Seattle Mariners bested the San Diego Padres, 5-4, in Cactus League play.
PEORIA, Ariz. – Franklin Gutierrez returned to camp Saturday in good spirits – and a sling – and talked about helping the Seattle Mariners in 2012.
PEORIA, Ariz. – The first Italian-born-and-developed player in major league history, Alex Liddi came to his love of America’s pastime the way most kids do.
Jonny Gomes and Jemile Weeks each hit a two-run home run as Oakland downed Seattle, 9-2, in Cactus League action.
Outfielder Franklin Gutierrez returned to camp today in good spirits – and a sling – and talked about helping the Seattle Mariners in 2012.
PEORIA, Ariz. – Now that the Seattle Mariners know Franklin Gutierrez won’t be their opening day center fielder, they must answer one question: Who is?
Jesus Montero was one of five Mariners to go deep on Friday as Seattle topped the Oakland Athletics, 8-5, in the Cactus League opener for both teams.
The Seattle Mariners have agreed to terms with six players, including outfielders Mike Carp and Casper Wells, on contracts for the upcoming season.
PEORIA, Ariz. – Every day this spring the Seattle Mariners have taken infield, it’s been with the Noah’s Ark approach.
There’s a photo of Franklin Gutierrez on his Wikipedia page.
PEORIA, Ariz. – Center fielder Franklin Gutierrez won’t participate in baseball activities for at least four weeks because of a partially torn pectoral muscle, then will be evaluated weekly.
PEORIA, Ariz. – Fifteen years of coaching pitchers, it didn’t get any better than late last March for Carl Willis.
Seattle Mariners outfielder Franklin Gutierrez has a partially torn right pectoral muscle that will sideline him for around four weeks.
PEORIA, Ariz. – Gold Glove center fielder Franklin Gutierrez, finally over his battle with an irritable bowel and strained oblique muscle, walked off the field Tuesday after making a throw from the outfield.
Michael Saunders always looked like he should be a fine big-league player – a 6-foot-4 outfielder with the speed to beat out bunts, the arm to throw out baserunners, and the bat …
The Seattle Mariners came to spring training early this year in large part to get their top two starting pitchers – Felix Hernandez and Jason Vargas – prepared for the opening of the regular season in Japan on March 28.
PEORIA, Ariz. – The Seattle Mariners endured a loss that mattered Monday, one that had nothing to do with balls and bats.
The Seattle Mariners on Monday inked 18 players, headlined by catcher and designated hitter Jesus Montero and first baseman/designated hitter Justin Smoak to one-year contracts.
The Seattle Mariners endured a loss that mattered Monday, one that had nothing to do with balls and bats.
PEORIA, Ariz. – Brendan Ryan is one of those eternally upbeat people who finds good in every bad situation, although the Seattle Mariners’ intrasquad game Sunday was a major challenge.
Once he’d put 2010 behind him, a season when he played for four teams, Justin Smoak thought his life and career would settle down.
PEORIA, ARIZ. – Chone Figgins talked the talk of a leadoff hitter last week, then used his first at-bat of the spring to walk the walk.
Mike Carp is something of a reclamation project, a major league player built from used parts as created by ... well, Christopher Michael Carp. Seventeen months ago, he had literally limped through his second big-league call-up, playing 13 September games, hitting .171 and winding up on the disabled list with plantar fasciitis.
PEORIA, Ariz. – The first intrasquad game of the spring saw 46 players take the field for the Seattle Mariners on Friday, though for many fans on hand, the day came down to three men.
PEORIA, Ariz. – It’s weeks too early to read too much into what happens in camp, but the Seattle Mariners on Thursday seemed anxious about their projected starting shortstop, Brendan Ryan.
PEORIA, Ariz. – Thus far, the highlight of Vinnie Catricala’s professional career – which entails three minor league seasons and about 10 days in his first big-league camp – came in batting practice this week.
PEORIA, Ariz. – The sun was still rising when rookie pitcher Forrest Snow arrived at the Seattle Mariners’ spring training camp Wednesday, so there weren’t many fans on hand to see his sartorial splendor.
PEORIA, Ariz. – If Ichiro Suzuki took the news that the Seattle Mariners would change the top of their lineup in stoic fashion, the man who will replace him leading off did not.
PEORIA, Ariz. – Manager Eric Wedge dropped hints all winter, made them more pointed in camp and on Tuesday made news by naming Ichiro Suzuki as Seattle’s No. 3 hitter in the lineup.
Ichiro Suzuki has been in the leadoff spot for almost his entire 11 years with the Seattle Mariners, but that will not be the case this season.
Eric Wedge dropped hints all winter, made them more pointed in camp and made news today by naming Ichiro Suzuki as the Seattle Mariners No. 3 hitter in the lineup. "I knew it was possible I’d be hitting elsewhere. I was always prepared to do what was best for the team," Ichiro said. "I’m ready to pitch, too."
PEORIA, Ariz. – Shortstop Brendan Ryan, who spent time on the disabled list, then missed the final two weeks of last season with shoulder and back problems, hasn’t yet been allowed to throw in camp.
PEORIA, Ariz. – Casper Wells arrived in Seattle at the trading deadline last summer and for two weeks was so good no one considered it an accurate read on his talent.
PEORIA, Ariz. – Anyone who has ever watched players around a batting cage has seen it – one hitter taking a bat from another player and hefting it, testing it.
When the Seattle Mariners signed the 30-year-old Taiwanese left-hander Hong-Chih Kuo, they got a pitcher about whom everyone agrees: Kuo may be as good as anyone. When healthy. Quite often, he hasn’t been.
Two months after signing a minor league deal with the Washington Nationals, outfielder Mike Cameron announced his retirement on Sunday.
PEORIA, Ariz. – It was the second spring training welcome Eric Wedge has made with the Seattle Mariners, and he told the 67 players now in camp two things Saturday.
PEORIA, Ariz. – It has been a ritual of spring when the Seattle Mariners arrive in camp since 2001: Ichiro Suzuki works out and then holds two mini-press conferences – one with the American media, a second with the Japanese.
PEORIA, Ariz. – He battled an irritable bowel, strained an oblique muscle and batted .224, so it might be assumed that nothing good came out of 2011 for Franklin Gutierrez.
PEORIA, Ariz. – It is the Year of the Phenom in Seattle Mariners camp, with young pitchers who represent the future stacked up in the spring clubhouse like firewood.
The insights into pitching continues with reliever Shawn Kelley talking about a two-seam fastball today.
PEORIA, Ariz. – Kyle Seager was never insecure about his swing, although he said he changed the kind of bat he used last season four times.
PEORIA, Ariz. – Danny Hultzen is usually spoken of as the head of a three-armed beast, one of a trio of young Seattle Mariners pitchers that has become the hope of a franchise.
PEORIA, Ariz. – Trayvon Robinson brought energy and flair to the Seattle Mariners’ outfield late in the 2011 season. This spring, he’d rather show big-league ability.
PEORIA, Ariz. – It’s hard to make an impression in two short bullpen sessions, especially when you’re one of 35 pitchers in camp.
Michael Pineda didn’t quite know how to interpret what he was hearing.
PEORIA, Ariz. – It happens in most camps every spring, when a veteran player comes in, has to shut down his workouts because of a physical ailment and never quite gets it going again.
The first few days of spring training, this is how it works for catchers. They don the gear, hunker down behind the plate in the bullpen, then wait for the pitcher on the mound to tell them what he’s going to throw.
PEORIA, Ariz. – The first few days of spring training, expectations are a little low – in part because the Seattle Mariners are trying to get to know one another.
Taijuan Walker is 19 years old and has been pitching now for two years. And Seattle Mariners minor league pitching coach Rich Dorman calls him special.
Until Yu Darvish and the Texas Rangers open their spring camp, the biggest story in the Cactus League for the Japanese media is Seattle Mariners right-hander Hisashi Iwakuma.
The last time he was with the Seattle Mariners, George Sherrill remembers reading the trade rumors.
PEORIA, Ariz. – It’s not that there’s less of Justin Smoak this spring, it’s that what’s there is put together differently.
Carl Willis has never had more pitchers in a spring camp than this year, when the Seattle Mariners take a look at 35 of them in 39 days before flying to Japan.
The Seattle Mariners open spring training for the 2012 season when pitchers and catchers report to the team’s facility in Peoria, Ariz., today. Here are some of the bigger issues facing the team.
Just because the Mariners aren’t supposed to contend for a playoff berth in 2012 doesn’t mean it’ll be a free-pass summer for general manager Jack Zduriencik.
The Seattle Mariners added a pair of veteran relievers to their roster Monday, signing left-hander Hong-Chih Kuo and right-hander Shawn Camp – and designated outfielder Mike Wilson and catcher Chris Gimenez for assignment.
When the Seattle Mariners open spring training to pitchers and catchers on Sunday they’ll have 35 pitchers to look at – and 39 days in which to do it.
The Seattle Mariners have signed relief pitchers Shawn Camp and Hong-Chih Kuo to one-year contracts.
Reaching back for a player they first acquired in 1998, the Seattle Mariners signed free agent infielder Carlos Guillen to a minor league contract Wednesday and invited him to spring training.
The Seattle Mariners signed infielder Carlos Guillen to a minor league contract with an invitation to spring training Wednesday.
As the line for the Seattle Mariners’ FanFest formed outside Safeco Field’s home-plate entrance Saturday morning, a street-corner protester held a sign aloft.
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