Endy Chavez News

The White Sox and free-agent reliever J.J. Putz have agreed to a one-year, $3 million contract, according to Noah Coslov from MLB.com . Putz pitched just 29 innings last season for the Mets, who acquired him from the Mariners winter with reliever Sean Green in a three-team trade with Indians for Aaron Heilman , Endy Chavez and Jason Vargas, as well ...

The Red Sox are going to have plenty of competition for Jason Bay. The Seattle Mariners are looking to make a move in the AL West.

A year ago, Jack Zduriencik flew to the winter meetings with Seattle Mariners fans and every other general manager in Major League Baseball wondering what he planned to do about a team that had lost 101 games.

With the Figgins signing basically done, the M's have made their direction pretty clear, I think.

Seattle Mariners general manager Jack Zduriencik still has plenty of work to do before spring training starts next week.

The Mariners have offered salary arbitration to third baseman Adrian Beltre while declining to offer it to disappointing pitcher Erik Bedard.

Update 1 p.m.: The Mariners must also make a decision on whether to offer salary arbitration to their non-ranked free agents -- Russ Branyan, Endy Chavez, Mike Sweeney, and Miguel Batista .

Adrian Beltre and Mike Sweeney were among the 79 players that didn't waste any time and filed for free agency today on the first day they could do so.

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.

Recent moves created five openings on the Mariners' 40-man roster and it will be interesting to see how general manager Jack Zduriencik goes about filling them.

As much as I love the Washington Nationals, I think ita TMs fair to say that they havena TMt done much right since moving toA D.C. five seasons ago.A Too many of the teama TMs personnel decisions have backfired, leading to several very long, very ugly, very bad years.

Before the Seattle Mariners won their 85th game and paraded around Safeco Field with a salute to Ken Griffey Jr.

Signing Beltre brought defensive stability to third base that the Mariners sought for years.

Weeks before the new Mariners regime pulled off its first blockbuster trade last December, front-office assistant Tony Blengino ran some numbers for his boss.

Ken Griffey Jr. and Franklin Gutierrez tip their caps during a game against the Yankees earlier this season.

Fixing the rotation And offense in one season is a tall order and unless your Boston,or N.York very unlikely.

We've covered Snell. The pitching matchup also features the return of Freddy Garcia, in case that's of interest to you.

Don't forget my Talkin' Baseball segment, coming up at 9:15 a.m. on KJR AM 950's Mitch in the Morning show.

The dog days of summer will soon turn into some hot pennant races in the Major Leagues and the Mariners have not yet abandoned their flickering hopes of staying involved in the AL Wild Card race.