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6 days ago | 
sports.mynorthwest.com | Shannon Drayer
The often used two-word explanation “it’s early” cuts both ways in baseball. Things not going great? Well, it’s early. There’s time, much can change. Off to a roaring start? Well, it’s early. There’s time, much can change. It can be tough to make evaluations with a smaller sample, but impressions can be made.
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3 weeks ago | 
sports.mynorthwest.com | Shannon Drayer
We caught up with Seattle Mariners assistant general manager Andy McKay on Thursday’s pregame show on Seattle Sports. In addition to his really interesting perspective as the former M’s farm director on seeing Cal Raleigh rise from a 2018 draft pick to one of the hottest hitters in baseball (link below), he shared thoughts and updates on players in Seattle’s highly-ranked farm system. Here’s a look at three things McKay talked about.
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3 weeks ago | 
sports.mynorthwest.com | Shannon Drayer
It has been quite a week for Cal Raleigh, who in one five-game stretch became the Seattle Mariners franchise home run leader at catcher, the second-fastest Mariners player to 100 career home runs, and completed the feat of homering from both sides of the plate for the fourth time in his career. That was all part of a week that saw him leading baseball in home runs (six) and wRC+ (293).
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1 month ago | 
sports.mynorthwest.com | Shannon Drayer
Shannon Drayer A tough weekend in San Francisco was compounded Sunday when the Seattle Mariners right fielder left with a shoulder injury. 5 days ago Brent Stecker On the debut of The Cal Raleigh Show, the Seattle Mariners catcher spoke about keeping contract talks a secret, torpedo bats and more. 9 days ago Shannon Drayer Seattle Mariners catcher Cal Raleigh and pitcher Logan Gilbert have played together since they were both drafted in 2018.
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1 month ago | 
sports.mynorthwest.com | Shannon Drayer
A rough weekend in the Bay Area, which saw the Seattle Mariners fall to 3-7 after the sweep by the Giants, left manager Dan Wilson looking ahead. “We are only ten games into this thing. We’ve got a long way to go, no doubt about it,” he said.
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1 month ago | 
sports.mynorthwest.com | Shannon Drayer
While their Seattle Mariners teammates take their turns running down the magenta carpet during player introductions Thursday night, Logan Gilbert and Cal Raleigh will be in the bullpen together getting ready for the game. It will be the 82nd time the Mariners’ first pick in the 2018 MLB Draft will throw to their third-round pick from that same year, and this one is special with Gilbert and Raleigh the team’s opening day battery. Sometimes best laid plans do come to fruition.
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1 month ago | 
sports.mynorthwest.com | Cameron Van Til |Shannon Drayer |Mike Lefko |Brent Stecker
The Seattle Mariners have racked up the fourth-most regular-season wins in the American League since 2021. But despite all those victories, the M’s have reached the playoffs only once during that span, having fallen just short of the AL’s final wild card in three of the past four years. This year, one MLB reporter is predicting the Mariners to rebound and break through in a major way. As in, he has the M’s going all the way.
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1 month ago | 
sports.mynorthwest.com | Mike Lefko |Shannon Drayer |Brent Stecker |Zac Hereth
We throw around familiar phrases and clichés when it comes to sports because they are easily relatable, always relevant, and seem to concisely sum up a situation instead of needing a long, rambling explanation (sorry, that part is still going to happen here). There is a reason an aphorism – “hope springs eternal” – surfaces at the start of every baseball season. It’s a beacon of light emerging out of a dark winter, something to cling to amidst the long, helpless existence of being a baseball fan.
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1 month ago | 
sports.mynorthwest.com | Shannon Drayer
Six weeks ago, pitchers and catchers reported to Peoria, Ariz., and preparation together as a team for the 2025 Seattle Mariners season began. While the opening camp roster included 74 players that had to be whittled down to 26, there was not a huge amount intrigue as to who those 26 would be. At opening day Thursday at T-Mobile Park, there will be just four players that run down the magenta carpet during introductions who did not appear in a game with the Mariners last season.
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1 month ago | 
sports.mynorthwest.com | Shannon Drayer |Brent Stecker |Zac Hereth |Janie McCauley
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Outfielder Mickey Moniak was released by the Los Angeles Angels on Tuesday after beating the team in salary arbitration and will receive $483,781 in termination pay rather than his $2 million salary. Under the collective bargaining agreement that started in 2022, salaries of arbitration-eligible players that are agreed to are guaranteed but salaries determined by arbitration panels are not.
