Seattle Mariners

RHP Anderson Garcia placed on 15-day disabled list with right shoulder tendinitis

SEATTLE, 03/30/2008 -- Seattle Mariners Executive Vice President & General Manager of Baseball Operations Bill Bavasi announced today that the team has placed right-handed pitcher Anderson Garcia on the 15-day disabled list with right shoulder tendinitis (retroactive to March 21).

The Seattle Mariners open the 2008 MLB season Monday (March 31) against the Texas Rangers at 3:40 p.m. at Safeco Field.    » read more »

Seattle Mariners sends catcher Jair Fernandez to Minnesota Twins in exchange for rights to RHP RA Dickey

LAS VEGAS, 03/30/2008 -- Seattle Mariners Executive Vice President & General Manager Bill Bavasi announced the following roster moves on Saturday:

Traded to Minnesota Twins:
Seattle Mariners traded Minor League catcher Jair Fernandez to the Minnesota Twins in exchange for the Twins rejecting Seattle's offer to return Rule 5 Draft player RA Dickey.

Optioned to AAA Tacaoma (1):
Right-Handed Pitcher (1): RA Dickey

Reassigned to Minor League Camp (5):
Left-Handed Pitcher (1): Arthur Rhodes
Right-Handed Pitcher (2): Roy Corcoran, Chris Reitsma
Infielders (2): Tug Hulett, Greg Norton.    » read more »

03/26/2008, PEORIA, AZ -- Seattle Mariners Executive Vice President & General Manager Bill Bavasi announced the following roster moves at the Mariners Major League spring camp on Wednesday:

Optioned to AAA Tacoma (1):
Left-handed pitcher (1): Ryan Feierabend

Today's roster move leaves the Seattle Mariners with 34 players in their Major League Camp, 29 roster players and five non-roster invitees.

Source: MLB

Wei Wang becomes first player from China to make a full-season Minor League club

03/27/2008, PEORIA, Ariz. - Seattle Mariners Director of Player Development Greg Hunter announced today that catcher Wei Wang has been assigned to the High Desert (A) Mavericks club in the California League.

Wei Wang, who was signed as a non-drafted free agent on June 20, 2007, will report to High Desert for the start of the season.

The Seattle Mariners have also already granted permission for Wang to re-join the Chinese National Team this year, when requested.

Wei Wang has 10 years of professional experience in China, and has been the starting catcher for the Chinese National Team since 2002.

Source: MLB

Good seats available for Tuesday and Wednesday games vs. Texas Rangers

03/27/2008 -- The Seattle Mariners 2008 Opening Day game is virtually sold out. If there are any returned tickets, they will immediately become available on mariners.com. Fans looking for Opening Day tickets are encouraged to check the website often.

There are plenty of good seats still available for the two other games in the three-game opening homestand, Tuesday, April 1, and Wednesday April 2. Both games start at 7:10pm.    » read more »

- Expansion of Spanish audio of home games
- Losmarineros.com presented by Safeco

03/27/2008 -- The Seattle Mariners and television partner FSN Northwest today announced two efforts designed to bring Mariners baseball closer to Spanish speaking fans locally, nationally and internationally.

The Mariners official Spanish-language website, losmarineros.com, will go live on Opening Day, Monday, March 31, and FSN announced an enhanced distribution package for Spanish Audio feeds of Mariners home games. Spanish speaking fans will now have four options for receiving the game broadcasts:

* The Secondary Audio Program (SAP) feed on cable systems carrying the FSN telecasts in the Northwest
* Radio station ESPN Deportes 1230 in Portland
* XM Satellite Radio    » read more »

- Seattle's new ace Erik Bedard takes the mound On Opening Day vs.
- Erik Bedard, Felix Hernandez, Carlos Silva set to start opening series

SEATTLE, 03/27/2008 -- The level of excitement is rising as the Seattle Mariners open the 2008 season with a three-game homestand against division rival Texas Rangers, March 31-April 2. With two key additions to the starting rotation, the Mariners look to win their first Division Crown since the 2001 season.    » read more »