Seattle Mariners baseball team

01/30/10 5:33 PM EST SEATTLE — One of the first things Mariners left-hander Ryan Rowland-Smith plans to do when he reports to Spring Training next month is introduce himself to Cliff Lee and begin a teacher-student relationship. "I am really looking forward to meeting him, being around him, and seeing what his work habits are," [...]

01/29/10 9:36 PM EST SEATTLE — Mariners general manager Jack Zduriencik said during a Thursday media luncheon that the team was closing in on a right-handed bat to beef up the outfield. And as everyone who's been watching Zduriencik operate this winter knows well, he doesn't mess around. On Friday, the team signed veteran free [...]

01/28/10 4:40 PM EST SEATTLE — Randy Johnson has not thrown his final pitch at Safeco Field after all. The recently retired left-hander has accepted an invitation from the Mariners to throw the ceremonial first pitch prior to the regular-season home opener on April 12 against the Athletics. The first-pitch plan was revealed on Thursday [...]

01/27/10 9:00 PM EST SEATTLE — A pipeline of talent coming through the Minor League system ranks near the top of the wish list for second-year Mariners general manager Jack Zduriencik. "I hope, as we move forward, the players we develop, the guys we are drafting and signing, here and internationally, ultimately will be what [...]

01/25/10 2:30 PM EST Spring Training is just around the corner and the Mariners will open camp with high hopes, expectations and a few question marks. Speaking of questions, if you have any queries, send them in and we'll do our best to answer as many of them as possible. What ever happened to Erik [...]

01/22/10 9:46 PM EST SEATTLE — Cliff Lee's first Seattle appearance as a Mariner went off so well that he might be asked to headline local comedy clubs. Or maybe he'll just stick with his day job. Either way, Lee showed a sense of humor when asked for roughly the 5,873rd time in the past [...]

01/21/10 10:08 PM EST SEATTLE — The Mariners have had one of the busiest, most productive and promising winters in baseball, but the future of the franchise still had one large uncertainty attached to it. On Thursday, to the delight of Seattle's fans and front office, the question mark known as Felix Hernandez's contract situation [...]

01/21/10 1:00 AM EST Barely a week has gone by this offseason without the Seattle Mariners making news. Big news. The Hot Stove league had barely begun when they announced the signing of All-Star infielder Chone Figgins. A couple weeks later, while the baseball world was fixated on where Roy Halladay would land, the Mariners [...]

01/19/10 7:05 PM EST Rob Johnson, who was Felix Hernandez's personal catcher for most of last season, said an impending contract extension for the Mariners ace right-hander is "incredible news" and that it removes a potential distraction going forward. "I knew we probably had him for this year," Johnson said, "but to get him locked [...]

01/19/10 12:47 AM EST Felix Hernandez has agreed to a multiyear contract to remain with the Mariners, ESPN.com reported on Monday night. A source with direct knowledge of the talks told ESPN.com that Hernandez agreed to a deal but that the length and amount of the deal are unknown. Last week, SI.com's Jon Heyman reported [...]