Mariners manager Eric Wedge said the club is bringing outfielder Franklin Gutierrez, along with several other players, to Seattle in early January to make sure they're healthy and in top shape during offseason workouts. Wedge said reports are that Gutierrez is feeling well and has gained positive weight as he comes back from last year's stomach issue and late-season oblique pull.
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December 06, 2011
Seattle Mariners manager Eric Wedge says he's still figuring out where to bat longtime leadoff man Ichiro Suzuki.
The 38-year-old Suzuki is coming off a season in which he hit .272 with a .310 on-base percentage, by far the lowest marks in his 11-year career with the Mariners.
Suzuki has hit exclusively in the leadoff spot for several years. Wedge says he's met with the...
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December 06, 2011
When Mariners vice president of international operations Bob Engle is honored as one of Major League Baseball's Scouts of the Year on Wednesday night at the Winter Meetings, he'll actually have to stop moving long enough to be recognized.
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December 05, 2011
Not much going on yet as far as deals go here at the baseball winter meetings in Dallas, but the Mariners are laying the groundwork to get some deals done that do not involve Prince Fielder.
One of the areas the team would like to upgrade is third base. Wil Polidor, the agent for former Mariners infielder Carlos Guillen, told me he'll be meeting here with all interested parties...
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December 07, 2011
The Dodgers have signed 33-year old switch-hitting catcher Josh Bard to a 1-year deal. Bard played in 26 games for the Mariners last year and he was 17 for 81 (.210 avg, .589 OPS) with 5 runs scored, 2 homers and 11 RBIs. Bard has now played in 586 games in his first 10 years in the majors and he is 452 of 1,778 (.254 avg, .705 OPS) with 162 runs scored, 39 homers, 220 RBIs and...
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December 05, 2011
Just got done speaking with Mariners GM Jack Zduriencik up in his suite and as you all know, he's very reluctant to discuss free agents by name when it comes to who his team is looking at. But sometimes, it's not what you say directly, but how you respond to questions.
Based on what Zduriencik told us, I'd say he's in a holding pattern on Prince Fielder for now...
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December 06, 2011
Mariners GM Jack Zduriencik doesn't like to have his ongoing negotiations with teams and players leak out in public before anything comes of them. So, it was expected, tonight, when he met with Seattle media in his suite at the Hilton Anatole hotel, that he'd try to downplay a tweet that declared his team "frontrunners'' in the Prince Fielder chase.
That the...
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December 07, 2011
The Mariners have not made an offer to slugger Prince Fielder yet and it's unclear who their competition for Fielder might be.
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