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Felix Hernandez lives for the big stage — at least he pitches like it. And no stage in baseball is bigger than Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, N.Y., home to the big, bad, 27-time World Series-champion New York Yankees. Hernandez will once again take the hill under the bright lights of Yankee Stadium on Tuesday [...] read more...

It was a pretty rough day in Cleveland for the Mariners, as Seattle blew leads in both the ninth and ten innings. The Mariners ended up losing 10-8 after a three-run walkoff homer by Indians catcher Yan Gomes in the bottom of the tenth. Apparently, nobody told the fine folks at Root Sports Northwest, as they scrubbed Gomes' homer from the record and proclaimed the Mariners... read more...

Seattle Mariners right-handed starting pitcher Aaron Harang had his previous start scratched after he experienced stiffness in his lower back. After a successful throwing session Sunday, the Mariners expect Harang to make his next scheduled start Tuesday against the Los Angeles Angels, according to Greg Johns of MLB.com. Harang threw prior to yesterday's contest, and Sea... read more...

  The Seattle Mariners announced Saturday that third base coach Jeff Datz has cancer. Through the team, Datz released a statement to the media, which didn’t disclose the type of cancer or his treatment options. Here’s the statement: Prior to today’s game, Eric Wedge and I met with the team so I could inform them [...] read more...

10. John Olerud Despite spending just over four seasons with Seattle Mariners, Olerud became an instant fan-favorite with his friendly personality and even-keel mentality on the field. He hit over .300 twice for the M’s while taking home three gold gloves and appearing in the 2001 all-star game that featured eight Mariners. 9. Dan Wilson The trusty backstop gets on t... read more...

When teams hit some kind of extreme, good or bad, people come out of the woodwork to drop I-told-you-so’s like it’s nobodies business. And it really shouldn’t be anyone’s business. Keep that crap to yourself. But, it happens. And the M’s recent embarrassing series qualifed as one of these ego-endorsing extremes. One of the I-told-you-so’... read more...

The Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft will take place (via MLB.com) from June 6-8, 2013, and the Seattle Mariners have the 12th pick in ... read more...

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, [...] read more...

As a sports fan, you can’t just look at a season as championship or bust. Maybe in select cases that makes some sense, but we’re all still here, and the Mariners have never won a championship. It’s about the experiences along the way, the things that lift your spirits, even if hope for a title has long since deteriorated. Approaching things as championship... read more...

The Seattle Mariners don’t play the Cleveland Indians again until July 22nd.  After this weekend, that might be too soon.  Seattle can now refer to Cleveland as “heartbreak city” as the Mariners lost three times on walk-offs, twice in extra innings.  The red-hot Indians posted a four-game sweep, sending Seattle to 20-25 on the season and 2-5 on a road trip that started pro... read more...

So much of baseball writing, it seems to me, ends up being the act of finding new ways to say the same thing as before. I don’t know how many times I’ve prefaced a post by saying something along the lines of “you already know this.” There are a lot of people writing about baseball, and things in baseball tend not to change that quickly. So there̵... read more...

Danny Farquhar is only in the majors because the Mariners needed an extra arm for the bullpen after Hector Noesi had to be used as a spot starter because of ... read more...

Eric Wedge, the manager of the Seattle Mariners has to be fit to be tied, about now. he watched as his former team the Cleveland Indians took 4 in a row from his Seattle Mariners this weekend. The series, which concluded today could have gone any worse for the Mariners. The Indians out played Wedge’s team and they made Justin Smoak look stupid while doing it. Smoak looked ... read more...

Over the last four games, the Mariners launched eight home runs, getting two each from Smoak and Ibanez and one home run from Seager, Morales, Ryan (!), and Chavez (!!!). Over the last four games, the Mariners scored a grand total of 15 runs, and went 0-4. The Mariners entire plan to turn the team around in 2013 revolved around “hit more dingers”... read more...

9:05 am games are weird to watch in Seattle. Eating breakfast while watching baseball feels ... read more...

The 2013 MLB First-Year Player Draft (hello unnecessarily long name) is coming up in less than a month, starting on June 6th. There isn’t quite as much build up for it as there is for the other major drafts. Mainly because it takes place in the middle of the season, and because it is crazy long. But, there are still people talking and speculating about who will go wh... read more...

I'm going to assume that you don't have any idea who Dave Hansen is. I think that's a pretty safe assumption, because Dave Hansen is the Mariners' hitting coach, and no one ever cares about the hitting coach until the hitting ... read more...

Iwakuma vs Kazmir, 9:05 am. Scott Kazmir is healthy again, and is currently throwing as hard as he did when he was a top prospect. Don’t think of Kazmir as the broken terrible pitcher of the last few years. His fastball has been up to 96 and his slider has some bite again, so the M’s will have their work cut out for them today. As always, the key with ... read more...