Everyone else is making a thread about there favorite team so I guess I will....

Project Starting Lineup:
1 RF Ichiro Suzuki
2 3B Chone Figgins
3 CF Franklin Gutierrez
4 LF Milton Bradley
5 2B Jose Lopez
6 DH Ken Griffey, Jr
7 1B Casey Kotchman
8 SS Jack Wilson
9 C Adam Moore

I think the top of our lineup has potential. Our #1 and #2 are solid. Guitierrez is coming off a .283/18/70 season and Lopez is coming off a .272/25/96 season. Bradley is a douchebag and everyone else is mediocre. Not a lot of power but our strength will be speed and defense.

Starting Rotation:
1 RHP Felix Hernandez
2 LHP Cliff Lee
3 RHP Ian Snell
4 LHP Ryan Rowland-Smith
5 LHP Garrett Olson or Doug Fister

Our #1 and #2 is the best in baseball. I really like Rowland-Smith and I think he is definitely our 3rd best pitcher (career 3.62 ERA in 88 games and 27 starts). Snell has some good stuff and pitched solid after he got traded to us last year. Garret Olson blows. Doug Fister will probably end up being our #5

Bullpen:

CL RHP David Aardsma
SU RHP Mark Lowe
SU RHP Sean White
MID RHP Shawn Kelley
MID RHP Brandon League
MID LHP Jason Vargas
LR RHP Kanekoa Texeira

Closer and setup men are sick. There's not much change in our bullpen from last year. We had one of the best bullpens in the AL last year and I doubt that will change.

1/30/2010 10:33:32 AM

My pick to win the division as well

Anaheim has definitely regressed, and I don't trust Texas

Don't sleep on the Eric Byrnes signing, he might platoon with Jr. if he's healthy

1/30/2010 11:10:38 AM

i wanted to see godzilla and ichiro on the same team but i guess it doesn't matter because i don't watch baseball anyways.

1/30/2010 11:20:03 AM

yeah maybe they can equal the amount of fail that comes with winning 116 games and not even getting to the world series

but most likely not

1/30/2010 1:01:44 PM

ZIIIIINNNNNNNGGG

1/30/2010 1:18:39 PM

Bedard might resign with the Mariners!!! King Felix, Cliff Lee and Bedard would be a sick 1-2-3

He'll be out for the first couple months of the season though...

http://www.rotoworld.com/content/playerpages/player_main.aspx?sport=MLB&hl=281546&id=3449

2/3/2010 10:48:02 PM

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"King Felix, Cliff Lee and Bedard would be a sick 1-2-3 for the month that Bedard is healthy"

2/4/2010 12:48:28 AM

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"Our #1 and #2 is the best in baseball."

mmmm, give me Lincecum and Cain.

2/4/2010 9:20:31 AM

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/fantasy/dc/

2/4/2010 8:00:07 PM

bedard has averaged 82 IP over the last two seasons, what makes you think he'll break the century mark this year?

2/4/2010 8:12:52 PM

^dumbass. I never said he would. Direct quote from me: "He'll be out for the first couple months of the season though..."

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"Mariners signed Erik Bedard to a one-year, $1.5 million contract with an $8 million mutual option for 2011. He could make up to $8.5 million with incentives. The left-hander posted a 2.82 ERA in 15 starts for the Mariners in 2009, but missed most of the second half of the season with shoulder problems, eventually undergoing season-ending surgery in August. He likely won't be a significant factor until mid-season. "

Fuck yeah!!! Great deal for Seattle. They're only out 1.5 million if Bedard completely shits the bed when he returns. The most they have to pay out is 8 million if he does well. Well worth it for a top pitcher (when healthy) for the second half of the season

2/8/2010 8:59:04 AM

Very interesting approach to free agency in that they’re almost completely forgoing power. They signed Figgins, who needs divine intervention to hit one out of the park, and Casey Kotchman, who probably has the least pop for a 1st baseman since Keith Hernandez. Their 3-4-5 figures to be some combination of Milton Bradley, Jose Lopez and Franklin Guittierez.


Their playing to their parks strengths, where right handed power hitters go to die. Beltre, Sexson, and others have all struggled there because of the deep dimensions and the prevailing wins off the sound.




It makes sense to try a different approach with Figgins and Ichiro setting the table and a bunch of 15-20 HR guys behind him.

Still, you have to wonder if the lack of a basher, even someone as pedestrian as Russell Branyan last year, could prove frustrating for them.

2/8/2010 9:10:57 AM

It sure as hell is frustrating to watch. Our strengths will be speed, pitching and defense. Boring but effective national league type ball. I doubt anyone hits over 25 HR.

Judging by GM's willingness to make key moves, I have a feeling that he won't hesitate to trade for a big left handed bat sometime during the season if needed.

I'm impressed that The M's have been the most active team this offseason but ended up trimming payroll in the process.

2/8/2010 9:49:41 AM

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" in 2009, Ichiro told the New York Times: "Chicks who dig home runs aren’t the ones who appeal to me. I think there’s sexiness in infield hits because they require technique. I’d rather impress the chicks with my technique than with my brute strength. Then, every now and then, just to show I can do that, too, I might flirt a little by hitting one out.”"

lol wtf

4/4/2010 8:15:57 PM

^ Crazy Jap.

4/4/2010 8:16:35 PM

love how Mariners fans and the media grossly overestimated their team again.... (not that they still cant turn it around)

Why is that always the case?

4/13/2010 4:57:31 PM

Fuck you for bumping this

4/13/2010 4:58:57 PM

they're still missing their #2 and 3 starters.. they should be ok, and the west still shouldn't be very strong.. i don't think oakland will keep this up.

4/13/2010 4:59:00 PM

Milton Bradley is a piece of human shit.

4/13/2010 5:00:00 PM

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"Milton Bradley is a piece of human shit."

We know all about that guy already

http://www.athleticsnation.com/2010/4/12/1416684/artest-pattern-will-milton-bradley

4/13/2010 5:03:24 PM

You should feel bad if you don't finish at least 3rd place

Stupid ass MLB and their 4 team West and 6 team NL Central

4/13/2010 5:25:50 PM

Yeah better to have 15 teams in each league, 5 in each division, and have two teams not playing or interleague play everyday!

4/13/2010 5:28:27 PM

Tree got fuckin told

4/13/2010 5:30:00 PM

^^pretty much...oh no, today there are only 14 games instead of 15! Baseball is ruined!

4/13/2010 5:32:00 PM

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"they're still missing their #2 and 3 starters.. they should be ok"

you're probably right. AL West has always been about starting pitching.

4/13/2010 5:33:55 PM

Weekend gate

You can get away with not playing on Tuesday or Wedneday

But you can't give up Saturday and Sunday gate

It would kill the game

4/13/2010 5:35:04 PM

4/13/2010 5:39:26 PM

If I play every Saturday and Sunday for 7 weeks, then get either one Saturday or Sunday off, then play both weekend games for the next 7 weeks

it will not kill the game

4/13/2010 5:41:55 PM

Why would you sit at home on your most profitable day

4/13/2010 5:43:05 PM

cause you'd only do it like 4 times a season

maybe 3 when you factor in interleague play

4/13/2010 5:43:57 PM

But why do it at all

4/13/2010 5:44:43 PM

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"Our #1 and #2 is the best in baseball."

Roy Halladay and any other scrub off the street is the best 1-2 combo in all of baseball. In this case, scrub = Cole Hamels LOL.

4/13/2010 5:45:38 PM

Besides, it would fuck up series

Teams would have to have three days off, not one

You have weekend series from Fri-Sun

No one wants the play Thur-Sat or Sat-Tues

It would fuck up the TV schedule, travel, everything

4/13/2010 5:45:40 PM

You would at least have a set schedule like football, instead of "some teams play each team in their division 18 times, while other teams in other divisions..."

4/13/2010 5:47:05 PM

Every team plays each team in its division 18-19 times

Thats the reality of the unbalanced schedule. I'm not a fan of it, but thats a different argument. The only discrepancies come it with the other games, say where the Yanks may play the Angels 9 times and the Mariners only 6. But thats trivial over the course of 162.

4/13/2010 5:49:08 PM

My cousin in the Seattle org just got promoted to AA. I don't want him to play for a terrible team, but if he could get moved up next year and give me an excuse to go to Seattle that would be great, thanks.

5/28/2010 11:12:36 AM

Got to see them whoop up on the Padres 15-8 last week. Unfortunately, they basically used up their runs scored allotment for the month in that one game.

5/28/2010 3:03:41 PM

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" 2010 AL West Champions"

ya'll got 7 games to make up.
but if even there was a division any team could win itd be the 2010 ALwest

5/30/2010 10:34:58 AM