A high school teammate of Nick Franklin's tweeted that Franklin is coming to Seattle. Subsequently, several people who write about the Mariners tweeted that Dustin Ackley is going to Tacoma. Think about how weird this is.
Do you know anything about the 2014-2015 market for first basemen? If not, consider yourself lucky, because it is the worst thing since the 2010 Mariners.
It looks like the Seattle Mariners could be on the verge of signing righty reliever Kameron Loe to a minor-league contract with a spring-training invite.
The Seattle Mariners might be signing veteran starter Jon Garland to a minor-league contract with a spring-training invite. Garland didn't pitch in 2012 due to injury rehab.
He is very much the same type of pitcher as Jason Vargas. Yay?
On free-agent catcher Kelly Shoppach, who could soon become the next new Seattle Mariner.
On the current state of negotiations between the Seattle Mariners and ace Felix Hernandez, concerning a contract extension for the latter.
Quickly hitting on a rumor that the Seattle Mariners might be interested in free-agent veteran starter Daisuke Matsuzaka.
The Seattle Mariners are still being talked about as a potential player for free-agent outfielder Michael Bourn.
According to reports, the Seattle Mariners are (still) thinking about a contract extension for Felix Hernandez, who has two years to go under his current deal.
Filling in details on the nixed Justin Upton trade between the Diamondbacks and the Mariners. And discussing the trade, and how it might not be dead yet, and why that is.
Baseball is all about humans and emotions and heart and hustle and tradition and America and stuff. But we don't care. We care only about numbers and math and spreadsheets and computers! So let's turn Upton into a single number.
Word's mostly out on what the Seattle Mariners would've sent to the Arizona Diamondbacks in a Justin Upton trade. It's a pretty substantial package, indeed.
The Mariners and Diamondbacks agreed to terms on a Justin Upton trade, according to a report, but then Upton exercised his no-trade clause, so the Mariners remain Upton-less.
Nationals "outfielder"/1B Michael Morse is available on the trade market, and you can expect to see the Mariners get linked to him.
Diamondbacks outfielder Justin Upton is back on the trading block, reportedly, and the Seattle Mariners have some interest in him, reportedly. Things have changed.
The Seattle Mariners and Giancarlo Stanton? The Mariners have reportedly asked, and a trade is reportedly unlikely, according to a guy.
On trade rumors loosely linking the Seattle Mariners to Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Andre Ethier, who is beginning a five-year contract.
With the Arizona Diamondbacks getting a shortstop on Tuesday, they're less likely to trade Justin Upton, meaning the Rangers are more likely to re-sign Josh Hamilton (it seems).
We need to talk about Michael Bourn, who is better than he gets credit for, and who is available on the free-agent market, there for the Mariners' taking.
Josh Hamilton, Nick Swisher, and Michael Bourn are still out there as free agents in whom the Mariners have interest, and the suitor pools are actively shrinking.
The Seattle Mariners have been linked to free-agent Jason Bay. Jason Bay is bad, and the Mariners should feel bad.
On the relevant Seattle Mariners news from the early stages of the 2012 winter meetings in Nashville, TN.
The Seattle Mariners are also said to have some degree of interest in free-agent catcher Russell Martin, who most recently played for the Yankees.
