Seattle Mariners

After looking at Jeremy's blog over at Sports and Bremertons - I got curious and looked over the Mariners roster and what their payroll looks like for the next couple of years. It looks like the Mariners will carry a payroll about $86 million this year and it looks like they only have 6 players tied up til 2006 (Guardardo, Ichiro, Ibanez, Pineiro, Spiezio, and Winn). It occurred to me that Winn and Ibanez need to be traded so that the Mariners can try to field and "all vowel O team" (or maybe Randy Winn can legally change his name to Randy Winneiro - just trade Ibanez though).

It also occurred to me that the Mariners need a big bat in their line-up maybe even worse than the Dodgers do. Jason Kendall's not a HR hitter but he's available. Jim Edmonds would be perfect but will Seattle take on Edmonds contract and do they have something the Cardinals would be interested in? I still say that Ibanez was a bad signing. Matt Stairs will have more HR and RBI's for the Royals this year than Ibanez will have for Seattle and Stairs only cost $1 million.