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Rick Rizzs, the Voice of the Mariners, will retire after the 2026 season

Rick Rizzs has announced through the Seattle Mariners that the 2026 season will be his final one as the radio voice of baseball in the Pacific Northwest, retiring following this year’s campaign. The season will be Rizzs’ 41st in Seattle, and his 44th in the big leagues (having spent three years with the Detroit Tigers), […]

MLB Mariners Tigers

7 days ago | 2 reads

40 in 40: Josh Naylor is fearless

Here’s the location of a 99 mile per hour fastball. I wouldn’t advise swinging at this pitch. In the Statcast era, there have been 2,416 pitches thrown at least that fast in this part of the plate. The rare guys who’ve swung have a 56% whiff rate and a .307 xwOBAcon. (Imagine Mike Zunino’s whiff […]

MLB

7 days ago | 2 reads

40 in 40: Ben Williamson got better results as the season progressed—but did he actually get better?

Ben Williamson doesn’t rush; he just moves quickly. The defensive standout’s quick feet and steady hands earned him a promotion to MLB after just 689 plate appearances in the minors, despite his college career coming in the decidedly mid CAA. And he spent most of the first two-thirds of the 2025 season as the Mariners’ […]

MLB College Football College Basketball Mariners

8 days ago | 0 reads

Mariners acquire RHP Cooper Criswell

As spring training draws ever nearer, the Mariners have again fortified the group of arms they’ll bring to camp (known around here as The Pitching Pile), acquiring RHP Cooper Criswell from the Mets for cash. Long-tenured sixth (or seventh or eighth) starter Jhonthan Díaz was designated for assignment in a corresponding move. Criswell, 29, was […]

MLB Mariners Mets

11 days ago | 2 reads

Friday Feedbag: Go-to karaoke songs for Seattle Mariners

Hello and welcome back to the Feedbag, where I will never serve you slop. What a gorgeous Friday in the Pacific Northwest as we sit about 1 month away from Spring Training baseball and a certain local NFL team are one win away from their third fourth Super Bowl trip in team history. Things may […]

MLB NFL Mariners Patriots

11 days ago | 1 read

40 in 40: Leo Rivas, what are you Brewing

The Milwaukee Brewers play big. The zythophilian juggernauts of the NL Central have the same number of division titles as the Dodgers over the past half decade. They’ve been punching down on the incompetent and/or uncompetitive clubs in their division, while managing to outmaneuver the Chicago Cubs, and pushing the St. Louis Cardinals into their […]

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11 days ago | 5 reads

Mariners Reacts Survey: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow

Spring training is fast approaching, but not fast enough for me. These days, we are in a serious baseball content drought: MLB The Show is in end-of-life, most of the major names have been signed, and the trade market is coming to a standstill. All I have left to keep me going these days is […]

MLB Mariners

12 days ago | 1 read

40 in 40: Troy Taylor and the Great Perhaps

In John Green’s 2005 novel Looking for Alaska, the main character Miles is obsessed with famous people’s last words, and especially those of the 16th century French writer François Rabelais: “I go to seek a Great Perhaps.” Over the course of the novel, the Great Perhaps becomes shorthand for the kind of life Miles wants […]

12 days ago | 0 reads

40 in 40: Logan Evans turns two

Logan Evans’ future depends on two numbers from his rookie season:  That .493 difference was the largest such split in 2025 and one of the 20 largest splits in MLB history. Which number is a better reflection of his true talent?  OPS allowed isn’t the ideal measure for pitchers. I use it here as it’s […]

MLB

13 days ago | 0 reads

Mariners Announce 2026 Minor League Coaching Staffs

The Mariners announced their minor league coaching staffs for the upcoming season this week. While these aren’t names the average fan will be able to rattle off, each one of these people plays a crucial role in the development of Mariners minor-leaguers, from the high-minors managers who get to tell a prospect he’s making it […]

MLB Mariners

13 days ago | 2 reads

Bryce Miller, Mariners agree to contract with 2027 option to avoid arbitration

The Seattle Mariners and RHP Bryce Miller have agreed on a contract, allowing both parties to avoid arbitration. The deal guarantees Miller $2.4375 million for the 2026 season, along with a team option reportedly worth $6.075 million for the 2027 campaign in lieu of his traditional second year of arbitration eligibility. The cost-certainty for Seattle […]

MLB Mariners

14 days ago | 3 reads

40 in 40: Randy Arozarena, DH (?)

All baseball thought experiments coming from know-nothings outside of the organizations (like me) suffer from a lack of information. Trade daydreams or hot-stove free agent woolgatherings are limited to public information, certainly missing relevant details such as unofficial or non-public budget constraints, internal evaluations of prospects, culture concerns or planned transactions that would make the […]

MLB Rays

14 days ago | 0 reads

40 in 40: The mystery of Logan Gilbert’s disappearing efficiency

This story has been corrected in reaction to a mathematical error caught by user Tim B. In 2024, Logan Gilbert became one of MLB’s apex predators. He led baseball in innings pitched with 208.2 and finished second in the AL in strikeouts with 220. He was rewarded with a trip to the All-Star game and […]

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15 days ago | 0 reads

Friday Feedbag: Script the 2026 Mariners Salmon Run season

Hello and welcome back to the Friday Feedbag where I will never feed you slop. How about some chum (salmon), though? Just kidding. But we are going to talk about the hate it or love it phenomenon of the Seattle Mariners Salmon Run mascot race today. Starting in the 2024 season, the Salmon Run instantly […]

MLB Mariners

18 days ago | 0 reads