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Tag: Seattle Mariners

Why James Paxton is the perfect piece for the Seattle Mariners process

February 20, 2021 Bamos Appleby Baseball, Team Contributors

I like to give my wife intermittent updates on the state of the Seattle Mariners. I don’t know if she likes hearing them, but I figure it’s nice for her to know what I’m focusing my attention on instead of

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What a double-play tells us about the 2020 Seattle Mariners

August 10, 2020 Bamos Appleby Baseball, Team Contributors

So, we’re just over a week in to a baseball season that may not finish. Seattle Mariners Pitcher A has shown some “good stuff”, Hitter B has struck out more than his previous stats might suggest, and Outfielder C has

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A Friday night in July with the Seattle Mariners

July 18, 2020 Bamos Appleby Baseball, Team Contributors

If things were normal, I wouldn’t be watching a game tonight. If things were normal, the Seattle Mariners would be lining up to play the second of a four-game series against the A’s, two games from the end of 10-game

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An Ode To Mike Zunino

April 1, 2020 Bamos Appleby Baseball, Team Contributors

It’s hard to write about baseball when there’s no baseball happening. I’ve spent at least two hours today trying to think about how to make the fact the 2020 Seattle Mariners sent some players you’ve never heard of back down

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Seattle Mariners 2020: the race to the bottom never felt so good

March 9, 2020 Bamos Appleby Baseball, Team Contributors

So close. So, SO damn close. A mere 3.1 games away from the kind of magnificent, glorious, ignominy I revel in as someone who pays a lot more attention to the Seattle Mariners than any sane UK resident should. The

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Seattle Mariners 2020: Reasons for Optimism

March 6, 2020 GavGavinGavlaar Baseball, Opinion, Previews

What happened in 2019? Quite a lot really. It all started in Japan. The Mariners beat the Oakland Athletics in the two-game series, then came back stateside to win the series over the Boston Red Sox. They swept the Angels,

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Reasons to watch baseball – AL West

February 10, 2020 Thomas Pringle Baseball, Opinion, Pinch Hitting

AL EAST | AL CENTRAL | AL WEST | NL EAST | NL CENTRAL | NL WEST I’m committing myself to watching every team this season, at least one full game each. No longer will I load up MLB.tv after work,

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Life lessons from a Seattle Mariners fan

February 6, 2020 Bat Flips Admin Baseball, Guest writer

Life teaches you many lessons. A little one over the years is that the Seattle Mariners are a confusing mess of a Major League Baseball team. While I will limit that statement to the timespan of my own fandom, starting

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Mariners misery

What’s it like being a Mariners fan?

January 31, 2020 Bat Flips Admin Baseball, Pinch Hitting

Let’s have a look: Randy ‘The Big Unit’ Johnson, Alex Rodriguez, Ken Griffey Jr., Edgar freaking Martinez, King Felix, Ichiro Suzuki. That’s just a few of the great names in recent memory to have worn a Mariners jersey. But that’s

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Hot takes and overreactions

April 3, 2019 GavGavinGavlaar Baseball, MLB UK, Opinion

It is far too early to anoint Phillies as World Series champions or label Chris Sale’s contract a bust, or even start thinking that the Baltimore Orioles might be a good team. Here are some interesting snippets from the opening

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