MARINERS RUMORS & GOSSIP
Chone Figgins, the Seattle Mariners and sunk costs
Trying to compete in the AL West over the next several years is not going to be easy for the Seattle Mariners. The Rangers are overflowing with young talent and new cash inflow. The Angels have Albert Pujols and a seemingly endless amount of financial resources. Heck, even the Oakland A's seem like they could be a force to be reckoned with in a few years with Yoenis Cespedes...
Via The Outside Corner
|
8 hours ago
|
8 hours ago
Discuss
Why the A’s should trade for Ichiro Suzuki
Last year, Ichiro Suzuki had his worst season. The Seattle Mariners right fielder and future Hall of Famer hit .272, 54 points below his lifetime average. He also had an OPS+ of 84 and -0.4 WAR and failed to win a Gold Glove or top 200 hits for the first time in his career, the ageless wonder finally starting to look like a player pushing 40. The Mariners have been through this before...
Via Full Spectrum Baseball
|
10 hours ago
|
10 hours ago
The Story Of How The Seattle Mariners Won The 2012 World Series
Aah, the beginning of baseball season. The grass is a brilliant green, sunflower seeds are flying in every direction, and the thick, pure crack of baseball flying off bats, rings throughout the ballpark. Well, at the preseason camps in Arizona and Florida, where hundreds of Major Leaguers currently congregate, that may be the case, but right now in the Pacific Northwest there is...
Via Oregon Sports News
|
11 hours ago
|
11 hours ago
Why Eric Wedge Might Be A Genius (Or Just Searching For Answers)
Eric Wedge recently broke the news that struggling and overpaid Mariners third baseman Chone Figgins would begin the 2012 campaign in the leadoff position. This left all Mariner fans wondering, “what’s happening to Ichiro”? Wedge announced today that Ichiro will be hitting in the third spot, meaning that Dustin Ackley will be hitting second. As the Mariners manager put it,...
Via SeaTown Sports
|
18 hours ago
|
18 hours ago
Looking Inside Figgins First, Ichiro Third
Today in Peoria, Mariners Manager Eric Wedge confirmed a change that many had thought was imminent for a while now: Ichiro will be dropped to third in the order with Chone Figgins leading off. SeattleClubhouse takes a look at the new Top-3 in the order and examines their hitting tendencies to try and get a feel for what the results may be.
Via mariners.scout.com
|
18 hours ago
Seattle Mariners Move Ichiro Suzuki Out Of Leadoff Spot
When the Mariners open their season, it won’t be Ichiro Suzuki at the top of the Mariners batting order for the first time since 2000.
Manager Eric Wedge announced Tuesday that he will move Suzuki from his normal leadoff spot down to No. 3 in the Mariners batting order. Wedge is planning to make Suzuki’s move permanent and he said he will figure out who is Seattle’s best...
Via Rant Sports
|
1 day ago
|
1 day ago
Mariners Breaking News: Figgins to lead off Ichiro now hitting 3rd
Ichiro Has A New Role
Reports out of the Seattle Mariners spring training facility in Peoria, Arizona on Tuesday morning have Mariners manager Eric Wedge moving Ichiro Suzuki to the number three spot in the batting order for the upcoming season.
Wedge has stated that Ichiro gives the club the best chance at scoring runs this season, a spot that the Mariners desperately need to...
Via NorthWest Sports Beat
|
1 day ago
|
1 day ago
Seattle Mariners Make Huge Mistake Batting Ichiro Third
SEATTLE — Seattle Mariners manger Eric Wedge hinted last fall that there would be changes made to the top of the order in the lineup. Saturday, it was reported that washed up third baseman Chone Figgins would return to the leadoff spot this season taking the slot Ichiro has held since he signed with the team in 2001.
With Figgins leading off the question was how far did Wedge...
Via Rant Sports
|
1 day ago
|
1 day ago
Ichiro to Hit Third, Try to Slug in 2012?
For the last 11 seasons, Ichiro Suzuki at the top of the order has been the one constant in Seattle. Ichiro isn’t leaving Seattle, but as Eric Wedge announced today, he won’t be leading off for the Mariners any more:
#Mariners manager Eric Wedge just announced that Ichiro will hit 3rd in the lineup this season.
— Seattle Mariners (@Mariners) February 21, 2012
For...
Via Fangraphs
|
1 day ago
|
1 day ago
Eric Wedge Has Lost His Mind
There are not too many occasions during a baseball off season when a story makes your jaw drop to the floor. The Pujols signing by the Angels and the Pineda/Montero deal were two such occasions. Now there's a third. Eric Wedge has told the press that Ichiro Suzuki will be moved out of the lead off spot to third in the line up and Chone Figgins will lead off for the Seattle Mariners...
Via The Flagrant Fan
|
1 day ago
|
1 day ago
Mariners Ichiro Suzuki Will bat 3rd in 2012
First reported by Geoff Baker from the Seattle Times Mariners blog
M's manager Eric Wedge announced today that M's future hall of famer Ichiro Suzuki will indeed bat 3rd in 2012.
Geoff reported on his blog that Wedge confirmed the No. 3 spot in the batting order to begin the 2012 regular season.
Chone Figgins will get first crack at replacing Ichiro atop the order.
...
Via NorthWest Sports Beat
|
1 day ago
|
1 day ago
Seattle Mariners Baseball Is Coming
In last week’s column I went on a nostalgic baseball trip. I wanted to snap everyone out of the winter doldrums and remind them; Baseball is coming!!! I also tried to provide some reasons why baseball fans, and especially Puget Sound fans, should be excited.
Because of the Mariners’ trip to Japan this year, pitchers and catchers reported earlier than usual. Lots of new names...
Via Oregon Sports News
|
1 day ago
|
1 day ago
Mariners pay tribute to fallen OF
(Eds: APNewsNow.) For Mike Carp and Carlos Peguero, Greg Halman was a brother.
Carp used the word in English. Fellow Seattle Mariners outfielder Peguero offered its Spanish counterpart, ''hermano.''
It was a fitting tribute to Halman, who spoke four languages and was a cultural bridge in the clubhouse before he was stabbed to death last November while in his native...
Via AP on Fox
|
2 days ago
Ichiro loses his leadoff spot...to Chone Figgins?
Big news coming out of Mariners camp early on, as Ichiro Suzuki is apaprently going to be losing his spot at the top of Seattle's order. Reportedly replacing him will be the much-maligned former big name free agent Chone Figgins.
Now, on the surface, this immediately looks like a disaster. I mean, Ichiro is a guy who's a lock to hit .300 every year and get on base at a decent...
Via The Outside Corner
|
2 days ago
|
2 days ago
Mariners 2012 shortstop competition: Brendan Ryan vs. Munenori Kawasaki
Google: North West Ozzie
I’m just throwing this out there. Brendan Ryan needs to lose 160 pounds before April.
Entering spring training for the Mariners the season, veteran shortstop Brendan Ryan is looking to lose some weight, 165 pounds to be exact.
It isn’t that he has been into eating too many burritos or playing too many video games this offseason. In fact the...
Via NorthWest Sports Beat
|
2 days ago
|
2 days ago
THE MARINERS HOT 25
Seattle Mariners Forum Discussions
2 replies,
May 10, 2010
Latest Seattle Mariners Photos
