Felix Hernandez News

The World Series may still be fresh in your mind, but MLB GMs are already focusing on next season.

Nov. 5-19: Free agent filing period. Nov. 9-11: General managers meetings, Chicago.

After not moving Roy Halladay at the trade deadline, the Blue Jays may try again in the offseason.

The Aroldis Chapman market is going to be interesting to judge. The Mariners are the latest team to jump seriously into the bidding, possibly hoping to have another front-line arm so they can deal Felix Hernandez before he reaches free agency.

Every year, the passage into October marks the beginning of baseball's postseason, when some of the game's greatest heroes and moments are born.

Larry Stone gives his take on a wide array of baseball issues and weighs in about the Mariners too.

Ita s time to wrap up our early 2010 rankings with the starting pitchers. A Therea s an extremely fine line between many of these pitchers, so look for things to really move around as we get closer and closer to draft day.

Colleague Larry Stone had an interesting blog post on the fact that Felix Hernandez was blanked in Players' Choice Awards voting by his fellow ballplayers.

The finalists for the annual Players Choice Awards, which are chosen by the players themselves in conjuction with the Major League Baseball Players Association and Upper Deck, were released today.

For me, it's the most intriguing two-part question of the current baseball season.

Kenji Johjima walked away from $16 million on Monday, telling the Seattle Mariners he was triggering a contract option that let him return home to Japan rather than play here the next two seasons.

The radar gun pops as a Felix Hernandez fastball hits the high 90's. A little on the inside half perhaps, but with Kenji Johjima's reputation, his pitchers will get a close call every now and again.

Carlos Triunfel struggled to catch his breath as the guy standing in front of him barked out another order.

Mariners catcher Rob Johnson faces an arduous offseason of medical procedures, starting Friday with surgery to repair a torn labrum in his left hip.

It's not the Cy Young Award, but Felix Hernandez just picked up his second AL Pitcher of the Month award, this one for going 6-0 with a 1.52 ERA in September and his final start on Oct.

Jack Zduriencik correctly calls 2009 "a year of redirection" for the Mariners. But after all the hugs and pies and victory laps of Sunday, the big question is: Which direction do the M's head now? So many questions.

Divisional bragging rights will be on the line on Sunday when the Texas Rangers and the Seattle Mariners meet at Safeco Field.

Tom Verducci , the longtime baseball writer for Sports Illustrated, and one of the best in the business, has gained considerable attention for his theory highlighting the risk to a certain class of pitchers: those under the age of 25 that increase their workload by 30 or more innings from one year to the next.

A prolonged tip of his cap and wave to the fans in the seventh inning Sunday wasn't entirely the end of a dream season for Mariners ace Felix Hernandez.

Mariners ace Felix Hernandez has been named the American League pitcher of the month after going a perfect 6-0 in September.