Erik Bedard News

Bet most of you forgot about this guy, huh? In all of the off-season discussion I've heard about what the Mariners have to do, the name Erik Bedard seldom comes up.

The good thing about being the Orioles this offseason is that they need pretty much everything and they have pockets full of cash.

Jon Paul Morosi is a national MLB writer for FOXSports.com. He previously covered baseball for the Detroit Free Press and Seattle Post-Intelligencer. He began his journalism career at the Bay City Times in his native Michigan.

Tomorrow is the start of the free-agency period, where the Mariners can window-shop for some of the bigger names from other teams.

Yesterday, we covered where the top 12 hitters in the free agent market would land.

Congratulations, Adam Jones. You're a Gold Glove Award winner . Orioles center fielder Adam Jones added a fitting coda to his breakout season Tuesday, when he was awarded a Rawlings Gold Glove in recognition of his stellar defensive play.

With no trades made but a ton of groundwork laid out during the three day Major League Baseball general managers' meetings in Chicago, the focus once again shifts from trades back to available free agents.

The Elias rankings of potential free agents is hot off the presses from the Major League Baseball Players Association.

According to Fox Sports, the Seattle Mariners are going to "kick the tires" on the availability of All-Star left fielder Jason Bay.

UPDATE 4:07 P.M.: The union just released the list of players that filed for free agency today.

Three more Mariners filed for free agency on Friday. Pitchers Erik Bedard and Miguel Batista, along with outfielder Endy Chavez, submitted their requests to test the market this offseason, although the Mariners retain exclusive negotiating rights with all three players until Nov.

Recent moves created five openings on the Mariners' 40-man roster and it will be interesting to see how general manager Jack Zduriencik goes about filling them.

Brewers' GM Doug Melvin has made it perfectly clear that his top priority this offseason is to upgrade a starting rotation that finished last in the National League in ERA.

After the initial shock of learning that catcher Kenji Johjima was leaving the Mariners with two years and $16 million left on his contract, the general feeling among some in the organization is that it comes as no tremendous surprise.

It's hard to watch the playoffs this year. It's not because they aren't exciting or tense.

And here's the full roster. Arizona Fall League 2001 retrospective by Geoff Young October 21, 2009 I own a few baseball books, and from time to time, I'll scour the shelves for inspiration.

Everybody used to love Chris . While the Orioles have set forth a "grow the arms, buy the bats" player development philosophy, their young rotation is in need of some experience to help steady the young arms.

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.

A quarter century of running the Mariners still left Chuck Armstrong unprepared for his darkest hour.