Carlos Silva News

If it feels like wea TMve been in this bunker before, we have. Almost every year for the last three or four years, either Jarrod Washburn, his agent, or the Twinsa TM front office makes some noise about the LaCrosse native playing closer to home, and fans are forced to duck and cover.

To all you whiners on here, consider this. Jack Z and WAK just improved this team from 61 wins in '08 to 85 wins in '09. They decided it was in the teams best interest to sign Griffey for 2010.

For years, we've been banging the drum of marginal value as tenet of roster construction, using metrics like Wins Above Replacement to show the impact a player will actually have on the team and the associated cost that the team should be willing to pay for that performance.

The Kenji Johjima news was barely 10 minutes old on Monday when the first email came: "Do you think Carlos Silva would opt out of his contract, too?" It's nice pipedream, but don't hold your breath on Silva relinquishing the $24 million still owed him by the Mariners through 2011.

We've moved this week's Talkin' Baseball segment on KJR AM 950's Mitch in the Morning show up one day to this morning, at about 8:30 a.m. Come hear Mitch Levy and I wrap up the 2009 season for the Mariners.

Lots of goodbyes going on here today, one of which came from Ken Griffey Jr. after being lifted for a pinch-runner following his eighth-inning single.

Over the last few years, I've done an off-season series called "free agent land mines", where I laid out players to avoid giving large contracts to who just weren't going to be worth it.

Before the Seattle Mariners won their 85th game and paraded around Safeco Field with a salute to Ken Griffey Jr.

They were a rag-tag bunch, the Seattle Mariners of 2009 - a team that was constantly in transition, perpetually fragile and featuring the worst offense in the American League.

There was no postseason to celebrate, no 2009 World Series, so the Seattle Mariners turned the end of their 162nd game Sunday into a celebration of Ken Griffey Jr.

The Mariners' Ken Griffey Jr. smiles as he is hugged by teammate Carlos Silva in Seattle's dugout after Griffey hit a solo home run during the fourth inning of Saturday's game.

SEATTLE With five games left at the time he was asked, what did Seattle Mariners manager Don Wakamatsu hope to accomplish this week? The obvious, of course win as many games as possible.

"g, isn't CERA an invention of SABR-folk?" Correct. But as sabermetrics advanced they discovered it to be flawed.

When you're down 6-0 to the New York Yankees after four-plus innings, you can't really look beyond the M's starting pitcher for blame.

It's now a 7-1 game, the M's trailing as we head to the seventh inning stretch. Carlos Silva is warming up as I type this.

Actually now that I think about it, they both paid people for sex, so what's the difference exactly? Mr.

The Mariners will open their 2010 season in Oakland against the A's on April 5, then play the A's in their home opener at Safeco Field on April 12.

Fans haven't had to watch Carlos Silva pitch since he went on the disabled list May 9 because of inflammation in his right shoulder.

Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Great, Most of the uncertainty surrounding the 2010 Mariners is focused on the pitching rotation, and because of this there hasn't been a whole lot of talk about what the pen is going to look like.

One of the workhorses in the Mariners bullpen could be sidelined for the remainder of the season.