Seattle Mariners Rumors & News

For Mariners, time for some changes has arrived

Seattle Times — The last thing you want to do as a baseball team is overreact to a bad stretch. But the Mariners have reached a point where a few moves are necessary not just as a knee-jerk way to shake things up in the middle of a slump, but as a realistic means to improve the team

Mariners need to help themselves out this time

Mariners Blog | Seattle Times — Sometimes, as in what happened this past weekend in Cleveland, there isn't much a coaching staff or front office can do. Players are the ones who play and when they lose games because of walkoff home runs, or dropped balls, or whatever, that falls under the guise of on-field stuff and we all know that stuff happens. But sometimes, there are things a team can do to help. The back end of this Mariners starting rotation has been a shaky loose link for most of the season with a few points of stability. Tonight wasn't one of those stable moments. The Mariners lost 12-0 and were down 7-0 by the four...

Trout hits for cycle, drives in 5, Angels rout M's

Seattle Times — Mike Trout hit for the cycle and drove in five runs, Josh Hamilton celebrated his 32nd birthday with a homer and a triple, and Howie Kendrick also went deep in the Los Angeles Angels' 12-0 rout of the Seattle Mariners on Tuesday night.

A few things to take away from this heartbreaking Mariners series

Mariners Blog | Seattle Times — Justin Smoak may have said it best yesterday when he opined that any time a team loses three walk off games in four days, it's not going to be a good thing. Tom Wilhelmsen had the other great observation of the day that his club seemed about ready to catch the first plane out of town. I know there was plenty of teeth-gnashing, hair-pulling and all-around second, third and fourth-guessing taking place in the blogosphere after the game and that's fine. It's what sports fans do everywhere and the fans of Seattle are no different. We all need time to vent and there was certainly some vent-worthy b...

Angels 12, Mariners 0 — a flat pummeling

Mariners Insider | Tacoma News-Tribune — Well, at least the Seattle Mariners didn’t lose on walk-off hit. In a quest for optimism, that might be the only one on Tuesday night at Angels Stadium. Then again, maybe it’s not quite as positive as it seems. After all, losing on a walk-off hit to an opponent implies that you have a chance to win the game. About an inning into Tuesday night’s 12-0 loss to the Los Angeles Angels, the Mariners victory hopes were slim, and two innings later they were nonexistent. Seattle starter Aaron Harang had another forgettable outing in a tenure … Read more »

Game thread: Angels 11, Mariners 0, top 5th

Seattle Times — Honestly, who cares how the Angels got four more runs? There should be some good OTA coverage on TV from Seahawks camp. I’m going to find me a souvenir Mike Trout pint glass. 8:33 p.m.: That could be the last we see of Aaron Harang, who just walked off the mound — and maybe into

Mike Trout hits for cycle; Mariners hit rock bottom...again

Seattle Times — Start spreading the news…we’re not in New York City anyore. Tales of the Mariners’ exploits in the Big Apple have been long forgotten and the Mariners now face a brand new crisis in both confidence and their season. This 11-0 loss tonight to the Angels was just one game. But the M

Mariners hitting coach Dave Hansen on all those strikeouts

Seattle Times — Tough not to notice all the strikeouts the Mariners have taken of late. Hitting coach Dave Hansen is hard to pin down, but we got him for a few moments today and one of the topics that came up was the team’s strikeout rate. The Mariners have struck out at least 11 times in four

Late home runs? Mariners OF Endy Chavez has been there, done that

Seattle Times — Several jokes were flying yesterday about Cleveland Indians closer Chris Perez after 170-pound Endy Chavez popped a ninth-inning, go-ahead homer off him. It was the first homer of the season by Chavez and the fact it came in a pinch-hit appearance was even more impressive. According to Mariners

Tuesday’s line-ups, official game notes and updated stats vs. Angels

Mariners Insider | Tacoma News-Tribune — With righty Jerome Williams on the mound, Wedge has Raul  Ibanez going in left field over Bay. Wedge is still rolling out that trio of lefties at the top. The Angels only have one lefty in the bullpen – Scott Downs. Only Ackley Saunders, Smoak and Ryan have more than 10 at-bats against Williams.   05.21.13 SEA Notes by … Read more »

Reaction to PEDs differs in football, baseball

Seattle Times — (Here is today’s Mariners minor-league report). It’s long fascinated me to watch the difference in how performance-enhancing drugs in baseball and football are viewed by fans. In baseball, of course, it came to define a whole era — the steroids era. It was a crisis that shook the s

Mariners Minor League Report, May 21, 2013: Beavan pitches well, Peguero homers in Rainiers win

Mariners Insider | Tacoma News-Tribune — Blake Beavan had a solid outing, pitching 7 2/3 innings and allowing one run on four hits. Carlos Peguero (above) and Alex Liddi homered  in a 5-2 win for the Rainiers over the Nashville Sounds. John McGrath was at the game on Sunday and filed this column on Nate Tenbrink, who has been a hitting machine for the Rainiers this season. Never heard of him? Well, he was considered  a nice prospect until injuries derailed him. Double A Jackson picked up a 7-1 win over Birmingham. Class A High Desert gave up … Read more »

Anaheim not new for Maurer

Tacoma News-Tribune — CLEVELAND—Brandon Maurer had not received a flood of phone calls, but he expects that to happen sometime Tuesday when people realize he will be pitching for the Seattle Mariners in Anaheim, Calif., on Wednesday against the Los Angeles Angels.

Mariners fall to final swing again

Tacoma News-Tribune — Cleveland’s walk-off wins make four-game sweep even more bitter for Seattle | CLEVELAND — Tom Wilhelmsen pretty much summed up the thoughts of the Seattle Mariners and their fans minutes after yet another stunning walk-off loss to the Cleveland Indians.

Now is not the time for Mariners to trade talent like Hisashi Iwakuma

Seattle Post-Intelligencer — Over the past decade, the words “rebuilding” and “Mariners” have been as inseparable as “it’s” and “raining” in Seattle. The five-year rebuilding plan that has been incessantly fed to fans year after year is now going on a decade. Any struggles at the big-league level are drowned by praise for talent below it: “Don’t worry, [...]

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