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40 in 40: Why Cooper Criswell is my ’26 Pile Pick

With the Mariners’ announcement that Logan Evans will miss the entire 2026 season with UCL surgery, the Marinersphere is debating who will be the new sixth starter. Kade Anderson’s not ready, and Mariners fans are all too familiar with the flaws of Emerson Hancock and Dane Dunning. So a lot of eyes have turned to […]

MLB Mariners

2 months ago · 4 reads

Question of the day: the Colt Emerson vs. Julio Rodríguez hype train

Yesterday in the Moose Tracks, commenter Search4honor posed this question: For those who were here before the 2022 season. Is the way Colt Emerson is being talked about prior to spring training the same as Julio Rodríguez? As someone who contributed significantly to the way in which Julio Rodríguez was talked about as a young […]

MLB Mariners

2 months ago · 8 reads

Mariners pitcher Logan Evans to miss 2026 with UCL surgery

The Mariners’ starting pitching depth took a hit today, as the Mariners announced starter Logan Evans had UCL reconstruction surgery with the internal brace procedure. The surgery was performed by Dr. Keith Meister in Texas. Evans, 24, made his debut last year and pitched in 16 games for the Mariners, accruing 81.1 innings. He started […]

MLB Mariners

2 months ago · 11 reads

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 […]

2 months 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. […]

2 months 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; […]

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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, […]

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

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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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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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’ […]

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2 months ago · 5 reads