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Super agent Scott Boras is screaming about Major League Baseball being awash in cash, with the owners hoarding it.

The World Series may still be fresh in your mind, but MLB GMs are already focusing on next season.

Tomorrow is the start of the free-agency period, where the Mariners can window-shop for some of the bigger names from other teams.

The Boston Red Sox are reportedly A interested in four different free agents who are represented by Scott Boras.

Baseball's shopping season begins in earnest today when teams are allowed to negotiate with all 171 players who filed for free agency.

This is the first in a series of position analyses heading into Friday's start of the free-agent shopping season.

If at first you dona TMt succeed, try, try again. A This famous saying serves not only as a motivational tool, but also as a solid offseason philosophy for small-market general managers.

Over the last couple of days, I have read every rumor I can find about the Mariners: which free agents are they interested in, which players are they looking at in trades, etc...etc...etc...and about the only logical conclusion at this point is that the Mariners, especially GM Z, are seriously looking at every big-name free agent on the market.

The Phillies have declined their $5.5 million option on third baseman Pedro Feliz, which means that the 34-year-old will become a free agent and likely won't return to the Phils in 2010.

The Seattle Mariners have discussed a possible trade for Toronto first baseman Lyle Overbay, according to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Overbay hit .265 with 16 HR, 64 RBI, 112 H, .372 OBP, 74 BB, .466 SLG in 432 AB.

Becoming the first major league player to win Gold Gloves in each of his first nine seasons, Ichiro Suzuki was awarded No.

1, 2009, in Seattle. I just finished reading Buster Olney's Monday afternoon chat over at ESPN and a chatter asked him the following: Brian Buster, Pedro Feliz 's option wasn't picked up.

Two weeks ago, as the Phillies opened the World Series, Charlie Manuel discussed a change he had noticed in Pedro Feliz.

UPDATE 4:07 P.M.: The union just released the list of players that filed for free agency today.

The end of the World Series means the start of a new "season" for seven Mariners.

For years, we've been banging the drum of marginal value as tenet of roster construction, using metrics like Wins Above Replacement to show the impact a player will actually have on the team and the associated cost that the team should be willing to pay for that performance.

" Ryan Zimmerman, Washington Third base is a very strong, deep defensive poistion in baseball right now.

I know he isn't gone yet, and I'm certainly a subscriber to the "anything can happen" way of thinking, but it seems inevitable that Mr.

Kenji Johjima's return home didn't cost him too dearly as the former Seattle Mariners catcher agreed to a reported four-year, $21 million deal with the Hanshin Tigers in Japan's Central League on Tuesday.

The 2009 season is almost behind us and the Mariners have gone their separate ways for the winter after bringing winning back to the organization.