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Mariners Assign Seven More to Minor League Camp

by ~ March 17th, 2012 at 2:36 pm

The Mariners have sent seven more players to minor league camp. They include pitchers Matt Fox, Sean Henn, Oliver Perez, Aaron Heilman, Josh Kinney, and Jeff Marquez as well as outfielder Trayvon Robinson. The re-assignments trim the current Spring Training roster to forty players. The Mariners need to cut ten more by Thursday, when the club travels to Japan to prepare for their opening series with Oakland.

There aren’t any shocking cuts in the list above. I’m mildly surprised that Aaron Heilman got cut this early in the same way that I’m mildly surprised when I run out of cereal. All of the pitchers were long shots once the M’s signed George Sherrill and Shawn Camp, while Robinson’s opportunity to head north was all but over once Michael Saunders did something interesting.

Mariners baseball: eleven days away.

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  • Anonymous

    The next cuts are going to be interesting.  At this point I’m hoping that Ramirez, Beaven and Noesi get the rotation slots, not that I expect that to happen.  Saunders is almost a lock for CF with Wells and Carp doing LF mostly.  They do seem to thinking on Peguero at least.  3B is open to me, Liddi has surprised me and Catricala and Seagar are better than Figgins.  I like Kawasaki for the backup IF slot. Whatever they do Tacoma should have a hell of a team this season and Jackson too.

    • http://twitter.com/bgawtheidahofan Brendan Gawlowski

      No Iwakuma for you maqman?

      • Anonymous

        Not based on what he has showed so far, however I expect they will keep him.  Hopefully he will justify it eventually.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000326149414 Jim Labruno

    I am hoping they give Liddi the 3B job. Let the rebuilding begin and get rid of Figgins. Keep Seager cause he plays all over and send Catricala down for seasoning.