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40 in 40: Alex Hoppe, The Contraption Hungers, And You Are Its Sustenance

In mechanical engineering, it’s common knowledge that Contraptions (sometimes referred to informally as “Machines”) are fed by Fodder. The term of venery for an individual piece of Fodder is Pile. Some examples in a sentence: “When new Fodder joins the Pile, it’s better for everyone; The Contraption was beginning to hunger.” or, “Alex Hoppe, The […]

about 1 month ago | 8 reads

40 in 40: Ryan Loutos is just like us

Outside T-Mobile Park, at the corner of Edgar and Dave, a small crowd gathers. They wear well-loved King’s Court t-shirts, increasingly esoteric shirseys and BreakingT collabs whose pit stains betray their age. One of them has on a few different variations of leopard print, some are festooned in arboreal paraphernalia, another a MacDougall Bats polo. […]

about 1 month ago | 5 reads

Rick Rizzs: A legacy of service

The longest-tenured voice of Seattle Mariners baseball almost wasn’t. In 1983, Rick Rizzs was serving as the play-by-play announcer for the Columbus Clippers, at the time the Yankees’ Triple-A team. He’d been in the minor leagues for nine years, still waiting on a chance at a big-league job. It seemed like his opportunity had arrived; […]

MLB Mariners Yankees

about 2 months ago | 4 reads

Happy Retirement to Rick Rizzs, the Sound of my Childhood

There are a few things, perhaps two things, so potent in their nostalgia that I feel discomforted by them. I can’t quite pin down the emotion. Or emotions. And I don’t know that I can explain it, either. Perhaps what is so uncomfortable to me about them is the contradictory nature of the sensation. Bittersweet, […]

about 2 months ago | 4 reads

40 in 40: Yosver Zulueta looks for the light

Spring training: when the sunlight is bright and falls upon certain players more than others. A new pitch, a new swing, or a fresh face can all capture the attention of fans and writers alike eager to emerge from the cold tyranny of a baseball-less winter. At Blue Jays spring training in 2022, Yosver Zulueta […]

MLB Blue Jays

about 2 months ago | 8 reads

Rick Rizzs, the Voice of the Mariners, will retire after the 2026 season

Rick Rizzs has announced through the Seattle Mariners that the 2026 season will be his final one as the radio voice of baseball in the Pacific Northwest, retiring following this year’s campaign. The season will be Rizzs’ 41st in Seattle, and his 44th in the big leagues (having spent three years with the Detroit Tigers), […]

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about 2 months ago | 6 reads

40 in 40: Josh Naylor is fearless

Here’s the location of a 99 mile per hour fastball. I wouldn’t advise swinging at this pitch. In the Statcast era, there have been 2,416 pitches thrown at least that fast in this part of the plate. The rare guys who’ve swung have a 56% whiff rate and a .307 xwOBAcon. (Imagine Mike Zunino’s whiff […]

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about 2 months ago | 7 reads

40 in 40: Ben Williamson got better results as the season progressed—but did he actually get better?

Ben Williamson doesn’t rush; he just moves quickly. The defensive standout’s quick feet and steady hands earned him a promotion to MLB after just 689 plate appearances in the minors, despite his college career coming in the decidedly mid CAA. And he spent most of the first two-thirds of the 2025 season as the Mariners’ […]

MLB College Football College Basketball Mariners

about 2 months ago | 5 reads

Mariners acquire RHP Cooper Criswell

As spring training draws ever nearer, the Mariners have again fortified the group of arms they’ll bring to camp (known around here as The Pitching Pile), acquiring RHP Cooper Criswell from the Mets for cash. Long-tenured sixth (or seventh or eighth) starter Jhonthan Díaz was designated for assignment in a corresponding move. Criswell, 29, was […]

MLB Mariners Mets

about 2 months ago | 6 reads

Friday Feedbag: Go-to karaoke songs for Seattle Mariners

Hello and welcome back to the Feedbag, where I will never serve you slop. What a gorgeous Friday in the Pacific Northwest as we sit about 1 month away from Spring Training baseball and a certain local NFL team are one win away from their third fourth Super Bowl trip in team history. Things may […]

MLB NFL Mariners Patriots

about 2 months ago | 7 reads

40 in 40: Leo Rivas, what are you Brewing

The Milwaukee Brewers play big. The zythophilian juggernauts of the NL Central have the same number of division titles as the Dodgers over the past half decade. They’ve been punching down on the incompetent and/or uncompetitive clubs in their division, while managing to outmaneuver the Chicago Cubs, and pushing the St. Louis Cardinals into their […]

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about 2 months ago | 9 reads

Mariners Reacts Survey: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow

Spring training is fast approaching, but not fast enough for me. These days, we are in a serious baseball content drought: MLB The Show is in end-of-life, most of the major names have been signed, and the trade market is coming to a standstill. All I have left to keep me going these days is […]

MLB Mariners

about 2 months ago | 6 reads

40 in 40: Troy Taylor and the Great Perhaps

In John Green’s 2005 novel Looking for Alaska, the main character Miles is obsessed with famous people’s last words, and especially those of the 16th century French writer François Rabelais: “I go to seek a Great Perhaps.” Over the course of the novel, the Great Perhaps becomes shorthand for the kind of life Miles wants […]

about 2 months ago | 5 reads