U.S.S. Mariner

poll by twiigs.com

John D pointed out that Baseball America has published the AFL rosters with commentary. M’s headed out are:
RHP Gabriel Hernandez
LHP Justin Thomas
RHP Joe Woerman
C-R Adam Moore
OF-R Greg Halman

A rare 1:40pm start!
Perkins v Feierabend.

For all that is wrong with this team, I wonder if people have realized that M’s have a pretty good pitching staff in place for next year.
A rotation of Felix, Bedard, Silva, Morrow, and Rowland-Smith is solid. Yes, there are question marks surrounding Bedard’s health, Silva’s talent, and how Morrow and Rowland-Smith [...]

Joser, in the game thread:

I’m getting tired of this race to the bottom/Strasburg sweepstakes shit. Cheering against your team is — purely in my opinion — sucky behavior even if it results in a long-term benefit. But it goes beyond that.
Look:
1. The Nationals are a way worse team (hard as that is to believe) and [...]

RRS: 7 IP, 5 H, 2 BB, 5 K, 1 HR

Baker v RRS. 7:10. Here’s hoping Ryan tosses another fine game and the M’s can string some wins together. That’d be sweet.
Woah…
RF-L Ichiro!
CF-L Reed
3B-R Beltre
LF-L Ibanez
DH-R Lopez
C-L Clement
SS-R Betancourt
1B-L LaHair
2B-L Hulett

w00t!
Once rosters expand, it is on. I would love to see a Joba v Morrow matchup just for the “here’s a couple guys who’ll be facing off in the 2012 ALCS” angle.
Hilarious quote from that article:
”He’s a great late-inning reliever,” one AL scout said this week. ”Why would you risk that to make him [...]

As expected, MLB today announced it will begin using instant replay for “boundary calls”–basically, wether or not home runs were fair or foul, interfered with, or went over the wall at all. The unexpected part is that the new system begins… Thursday. (Wire story here, more detailed MLB.com story here)
Not during spring training, not to [...]

Oh man, Liriano v Batista? This is going to be so awesome!
It could, of course, be a fine pitching matchup. But I can’t be the only one who looks at tonight’s game with some degree of dread. Batista facing a good-hitting Twins team? Ugh.
Mark Lowe was optioned to Tacoma, and Randy Messenger is up in [...]