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Mariners first-year manager Don Wakamatsu was among the leading vote-getters for American League Manager of the Year on Wednesday after guiding Seattle to an MLB-best 24-game improvement, turning a 101-loss team in 2008 into an 85-win team in '09. Wakamatsu received two first-place votes, but finished behind Angels manager Mike Scioscia, who helped ...

Raising his on-base percentage a whopping 39 points, from .356 in six previous seasons to .395, Chone Figgins affirmed his stature as an elite leadoff man in 2009, taking his place alongside the Yankees' Derek Jeter and the Mariners' Ichiro Suzuki as the best in the Majors.

Japanese star Ichiro Suzuki and fellow outfielder Torii Hunter each won a ninth consecutive American League Gold Glove Award for fielding skills, Major League baseball announced Tuesday.

Isotopes Park will play host to a pair of Major League Spring Training exhibition contests next year as the Colorado Rockies and Seattle Mariners will play back-to-back games in Albuquerque on Friday, April 2 and Saturday, April 3, 2010.

New management has only been able to keep a neighborhood convenience store on track for a few months.

The Mariners had the lowest team earned run average in the American League this past season and as the postseason award season continues, the pitcher that led the way is among the Cy Young Award candidates.

Ita TMs official.A Ken Griffey Jr. is returning to the Seattle Mariners in 2010.A This can only be good news for a team looking to carry over the momentum from 2009, when they rebounded from their first 100-loss season in 25 years and finished 85-77. Griffeya TMs statistics in 2009 may not look particularly impressive , but therea TMs no doubting ...

To the serious students of baseball defense, Kevin Kouzmanoff has the hands of a surgeon and the mobility of a corpse.

When asked whether Seattle has interest in pursuing soon-to-be free-agent outfielder/DH Hideki Matsui, Mariners general manager Jack Zduriencik told the New York Daily News that he wouldn't comment on other teams' free agents.

The 2009 MLB season just ended. The Yankees racked up yet another World Series win, and the Mariners were mediocre at best.

Becoming the first major league player to win Gold Gloves in each of his first nine seasons, Ichiro Suzuki was awarded No.

Ken Griffey Jr. and the Mariners reached agreement Wednesday on a one-year contract, perhaps the final pact of Griffey's Hall of Fame career.

The Mariners' Ichiro Suzuki won his ninth-straight American League Gold Glove award Wednesday, an honor bestowed among the league's best fielders.

The American League Gold Glove team will be announced Tuesday as baseball's awards season reaches full song for the next week.

Hideki Matsui's Game 6 heroics make splash on Japanese TV Wednesday night ... Hideki Matsui isA front-page news, and not just here.

A Major League-best 24-game improvement last season provided a good start for the Mariners' new regime, but taking the next step could be just as challenging.

For many Japanese, Hideki Matsui is a man of contradictions - a towering hulk with a sensitive heart, a player of fierce self-discipline known for lewd jokes and a national hero who refuses to play for his country at international tournaments, much to the chagrin of his home fans.

Free agent Matsui says he might like to join his pal Ichiro in Seattle next year.

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.

While he didn't play much of a role after being acquired by the Seattle Mariners last July, shortstop Jack Wilson was one of three Mariners to earn 2009 Fielding Bible Awards as the top defenders at their position in the major leagues in the Bill James Handbook 2010.