Mariners Make Free Agent Offer

its probably chan ho park.

A 39 year old situational lefty [Embree] should be at the bottom of this team's list of priorities.

Furcal would be interesting but I would hate to see how much they would have to overpay to get him to Seattle. That would then set into motion another roster move involving Betancourt, Lopez or Beltre.

It would interesting for sure.

"A 39 year old situational lefty [Embree] should be at the bottom of this team's list of priorities."

Embree isn't a situational lefty. He's equally ineffective against both sides.

"Maybe the M's wanna bolster their rotation some more...

Jon Garland at 5 years, $70MM."

Bavasi's already been fired.

I'm putting my money on Oliver Perez.

5 years at for 80mil

The Seattle PI says it's a position player, and I for one would like it to be Casey Blake. They've said Tuiasosopo seems to be the Third Baseman of the Future for the M's, and Blake could fill in for the time being, then slide to first when Tui's ready. It would certainly make it pretty easy to trade Beltre if it's Blake.

Blake really doesn't make any sense.

There are a myriad of holes on the Mariners but 3B is definitely not one of them. You can't make a signing on the premise of a possible trade. If Beltre is indeed dealt, Jose Lopez is most likely to be moved to 3B anyway. Combine that with Blake being a RHed hitter and it makes even less sense.

can you guys read? position player not a pitcher.
to narrow the search it's not a C and prob not an OF. My hope is that the offer is to Creede. But I think the offer might be to Punto, because what we Mariners need now is D up the middle.

thr33niL.........
He played SS in his 17 & 18 yr old Junior League, but spent 3 years after that at 2b......and if you have seen him play much, he projects much better at 2B than SS.

"Yuniesky Betancourt age 22 SS can play 2B. He was the SS on the Cuba's National 17 to 18 yr old team and played in the 2000 World Championship in Canada. Hitting .523 during the tournament.
He played 2B with Villa Clara of the Cuban National league from '01 to'03. He hit .288 4HR's with 45 RBI's and 43 runs scored. He improved in '03 prior to leaving Cuba to .317 7 HR's with 52 RBI's and 64 runs scored.
Daryl thanks for the effort any more you come up on him will be appreciated great as I hope this ids of some help as well."

He may have played 2B in Cuba but has all of 9 games of 2B under his belt in 3 years as a professional.

That compared to the 515 games at SS.

And I have seen him play. I take in 90% of Mariner games every year. I can tell you that when he was lean, in-shape Yuni, he was one of the better shortstops in baseball. The out of shape, lazy Yuni is a different animal and, you're right, is better suited for 2B.

We'll see how that works out because he is supposed to undergo a grueling offseason training session with Ibanez down in Florida. Hopefully he can lose a few LBs and get his range back.

I thought about Dunn but what is he really worth at this point? The D-Backs didn't even want him for 1 year and 13 million. So what can he expect on the open market? 3/30 ...maybe? His bad defense and inability to hit over .230 really hurts his case for the big bucks.

I'm not sure how I would feel about a Dunn signing. It would all depend on the money and years I guess.

I don't want to get into a full on e-debate but the reason Betancourt was rushed to the bigs was because of his defense. He completely blew away our scouting debt with his glove and they brought him up with the hopes his bat would hold its own.

He has steadily gotten worse instead of improving. And every Mariner fan knows its because he decided to take in twinkie devouring as a hobby. Well, along with not setting foot on a treadmill during the offseason.

In essence though, we agree. Yuni is better suited for 2B right now.