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After manager Ozzie Guillen hinted of more lineup changes, Paul Konerko and Jim Thome each made cases Friday night to stay in their respective spots in the White Sox's lineup.

The conquest for "an ace" has lead many teams astray. Recent history gives us the 2008 Mariners as a team that ignored wounds elsewhere on the roster in favor of shipping an assortment of young talent to another club for a marketable frontline pitcher.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. For months before he signed a contract to return to the Seattle Mariners, the questions about what Ken Griffey Jr.

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

Not quite a year ago, the Seattle Mariners won their 61st game on the final day of a disappointing, frustrating and at times never-ending 2008 season.

Notably absent from last week's Seattle Times series on legendary local sports broadcasters was Rick Rizzs, the long-time Mariners' announcer.

Everybody is focusing on Luke French, the 6-foot-4 lefty starter acquired from the Detroit Tigers this morning in the Jarrod Washburn trade.

For two seasons, Emiliano Fruto pitched in Tucson with the Arizona Diamondbacks' Triple-A organization.

Posted by Dan Novick I always wanted to know what it was like to be the first to know something.

Requested and Provided Nov 2004 - Jim Bowden starts as GM Traded Brad Wilkerson, Terrmel Sledege, and Armando Galarraga to the Rangers for Alfonso Soriano 2006 Traded Bill Bray, Gary Majewski and Daryl Thompson to the Reds for Felipe Lopez, Ryan Wagner, and Austin Kearns [At this point you can see what kind of a dealer Jim Bowden was when left to ...

Wilson & Sanchez will be traded to someone. In a previous post I said that Sanchez would at least be under contract to us in 2010.

The Nationals weren't an expansion team when Manny Acta became manager in 2007, but they might as well have been.

Mariners pitcher Brandon Morrow's been a frustrating case, no doubt. Through no fault of his own, he was drafted right in front of Tim Lincecum, an eventual Cy Young Winner who grew up in the Seattle area and played for UW.

Baseball, it should be noted, sometimes works in mysterious ways - a fact that becomes evident in the list of the 100 greatest second basemen in major-league history.

While many prospects, especially hitters, can be accurately projected via their draft standing and minor league performances , every now and again the dreaded human element rears its ugly head and makes what could almost be a science frustratingly inexact.

Not trying to sound overly harsh with this, but one phone message I had waiting at my office when I returned from Minneapolis this afternoon decided to take me to task for writing that Ken Griffey Jr.

Two straight wrong sided two game series sweeps - five hundred is in reach tomorrow.

Sitting in a plane 30,000 feet in the air allows you to see things more clearly.

Brad Wilkerson announced his retirement from baseball today, just one year removed from being the Seattle Mariners' opening day starter in right field... by Alex Akita 7 reads Sports Brad Wilkerson announced his retirement from baseball today, just one year removed from being the Seattle Mariners' opening day starter in right field.

We had to know that once the helium had seeped from the balloons and the bunting had been taken off the Safeco Field facades, we'd be forced to evaluate Ken Griffey Jr.