Mariner Minors
Shameless Plug
I finally put some new content up at
Global Baseball. Very little Mariner-specific news, except for a table that collects all the international signing bonus information I know about from this year in once place (much more recently updated than the
Baseball America table of the same purpose). If you want to check out how the Ms' international spending stacks up to the rest of baseball, check it out (hint: very, very well).
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NRI List Announced
Wooooo!For those of you out there who can't be troubled to click things, for pitchers we have RHP Carlo Alvarado, RHP Jorge Campillo (told ya), LHP Jamie Cerda, RHP Renee Cortez, RHP Jesse Foppert, RHP Justin Lehr, RHP Brandon Morrow, LHP Matt Perisho, RHP Juan Sandoval (still around, after missing all of last year), and RHP Aaron Small. For catchers, we're bringing in Jamie Burke, Jeff Clement, Rob Johnson, and Luis Oliveros. Representing the infield will be Sean Burroughs, Gookie Dawkins, Rey Ordonez, and Matt Tuiasosopo, and on the outfield, we have Rayon Lampe again because it was written into his contract and Tony Torcato.
Spring Training!
(there's another new post below this, but blogger's been acting up)
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M's Sign El Salvador Righty
El Salvadoran? It doesn't sound quite right.
Anyway, while I was sitting around waiting for some news of an Australian signing (from any team, really),
this came up on ESPNDeportes. The M's have signed 17-year-old Danny Cruz Ayala, a right-hander from El Salvador.
I did a little looking around, and no, there hasn't been a major leaguer from El Salvador, and only three minor leaguers who've shown up stateside recently, two of them Padres and the other, who was drafted from a U.S. school, a Twin.
The article doesn't mention anything in terms of pitches or velocity, or even projection, which really isn't that unusual from this type of report. What we know about him is that he has some experience in international tourneys in Mexico and Nicaragua, has been playing the game for eight years (not bad), didn't participate in either Nicaraguan or Colombian winter ball this year, and he's a Bob Engle signing. Whether that's a testament to his ability or just because the M's don't have many other scouts in that area, I can't say, but it's a nice little news bit while we don't have anything else going down.
Thanks to Pirata Morado over at SportSpot for finding this initially.
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Transaction Update (1/22/07)
A few more
from Baseball America, noting that Mike Flannery has headed off for the Reds.
The M's have signed RHP Aaron Small, LHP Matt Perisho, and OF Jason Grove.
Small, 35, has hung around the upper minors long enough to get limited time with seven different major league clubs over the years, and he's played for a few more purely as a minor leaguer. He doesn't strike out batters, doesn't walk too many, and has given up his share of hits, but he's been around long enough to establish himself as an okay insurance policy if you really don't want to rush the kid.
Perisho, 31, is his left-handed equivalent, with more walks and maybe a K or two. Okay, so they aren't exactly equivalent, but the point is there's a bunch of these guys around and Perisho, like Small, has seen major league time with several clubs. Unfortunately, also like Small, he's coming off a lackluster season. Perisho hasn't broken 70 IP since '02.
Grove, 28, is from Walla Walla and went to Washington State. I have no idea what he did in '05, but he appeared for eleven games last year in the Minnesota system. He usually hits for a decent average, but his slugging is somewhat erratic and he tends to strike out a lot. What he does after a couple of years off is hard to say.
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A closer look at the minor league system of the Seattle Mariners baseball club.
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