Mariners Will Not be Overflowing with Compensation Picks

by Matthew on Oct 30, 2011 8:38 PM PDT in Seattle Mariners Transactions

Over this weekend, as the hours passed from a World Series sure to be remembered by many for quite some time, the baseball off-season officially got under way. Which naturally meant that we had to endure our first of the annual "Mariners don't expect to be big players" articles and also meant that certain people no longer were under Mariner control. It turns out there are four such players this year. Josh Bard, Adam Kennedy, Wily Mo Pena and Jamey Wright, all of whom began the 2011 season by signing Minor League contracts and yet ended up with the Mariners, are no longer beholden to those contracts and are free agents.

I wonder if they get to file for unemployment?

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Of the four newly free agents, how many re-sign with the Mariners this winter?

Zero

227 votes

One

654 votes

Two

449 votes

Three

74 votes

Four

13 votes

Five

109 votes

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Just Jamey Wright is my guess.

by Patrick Stites on Oct 30, 2011 8:42 PM PDT reply actions

I think Josh Bard is the one who is most likely to resign.

He’s stuck it out for a while and been rewarded, and competing against Miguel Olivo, Chris Gimenez and Adam Moore should be as good an opportunity as he will find.

by thehemogoblin on Oct 30, 2011 8:45 PM PDT reply actions

Got a bunch of smartasses. Wouldn't have seen that coming.

by Eyebrows on Oct 30, 2011 8:47 PM PDT reply actions

Never attribute to cheekiness what otherwise could be the product just of idiocy.

by Matthew on Oct 30, 2011 8:52 PM PDT up reply actions 8 recs

Doubt Kennedy will be back.

Think the other three have varying degrees of a chance depending on what Jack does in the offseason.
Gun to my head I’d say that Wright has the best chance to come back, then probably Bard and Pena.

by Aussie Mariner on Oct 30, 2011 9:00 PM PDT reply actions

Two out of three among Bard, Peña, and Wright ...

… but Bard and Peña, if resigned, would be on minor-lague contracts. Wright, if he returns, would receive a MLB contract.

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by Steve Nelson on Oct 30, 2011 9:05 PM PDT reply actions

I agree with this line of thinking...

All three should have the potential for some sort of role, even if it is just AAA depth in case of injury (Bard and Pena). I hope there is no role for Adam Kennedy.

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by Ballard Erik on Oct 30, 2011 9:14 PM PDT up reply actions

The big-league deal for Wright is what complicates this.

Josh Bard and Wily Mo will both take minor league deals, making them, if not quite free, than close enough to it. And they will take them, because they are not likely to do better anywhere else. Wright, though, costs real money, and is coming off of a ~meh season.

Expect Adam Kennedy to continue his barnstorming tour of teams who find that signing Adam Kennedy is somehow where they’ve wound up.

by SeattExPat on Oct 31, 2011 8:28 AM PDT up reply actions

Adam Kennedy, Houston Astro

He’ll never leave the AL West. At least, not for long.

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by Big Seahawk Loser on Nov 1, 2011 2:14 PM PDT up reply actions

I bet we get Bard and possibly Wright back

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by Corco on Oct 30, 2011 9:15 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs

This was the thinking behind my "Two" vote

by Aly Edge on Nov 1, 2011 4:49 AM PDT up reply actions

I'm going to say Kennedy and Bard come back...

Kennedy because he was the first-half golden “child”, and Bard because this organization is about as thin as any in terms of MLB catcher depth.

This could end up being a ridiculous guess by the end of December given Zduriencik’s proclivity towards minor-league contracts and NRI’s, and I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if Tacoma’s roster looks nothing like it did at the end of last season.

by Adam B on Oct 30, 2011 9:19 PM PDT reply actions