Ian Snell News

Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic -- A top prospect for the San Francisco Giants has been stripped of his U.S. visa after he was charged with killing a man in his Caribbean homeland.

Shortstop Jack Wilson and the Seattle Mariners agreed yesterday to a $10 million, two-year contract.

The Seattle Mariners on Friday signed shortstop Jack Wilson to a two-year contract.

Jack Zduriencik will be asked about the availability of Felix Hernandez, as long as the ace right-hander remains property of the Seattle Mariners.

Next up in the list of community projections is Jack Wilson . Community : .271/.313/.360 ZiPS : .267/.317/.358 Actual : .255/.292/.362 Bonus: We predicted Wilson's last game with the Pirates would be August 13; actually his last game was July 27.

The Mariners had a shot in this one, but their two biggest bullpen arms couldn't get it done.

While the Mariners celebrated their season Sunday with an impromptu Love Boat parade around Safeco Field, it was easy to forget that the team that enjoyed such rare camaraderie in 2009 won't resemble the team that returns in 2010.

For the first time since being promoted from Triple-A Tacoma, left-handed-hitting left fielder Michael Saunders is showing signs of power.

A funny thing happened earlier this week. As Vernon Wells made his way around the bases following a three-run home run against the Mariners on Thursday night, the Blue Jays center fielder heard a loud round of cheers from the Rogers Centre crowd.

TORONTO – Winning five of his last six decisions, Ian Snell nearly killed the Seattle Mariners bullpen, and it may have come back to bite him Saturday.

The midseason trade with the Pirates that brought right-hander Ian Snell to the Mariners looks better each time he pitches.

Ian Snell tries to continue his resurgence with Seattle this afternoon when the Mariners play the third test of their four-game series with the Toronto Blue Jays at Rogers Centre.

UDATE 1:21 P.M. : Ian Snell did a nice job of working out of a jam after giving up a single to Derek Jeter and a walk to Johnny Damon.

Who will be the Mariners' left fielder next season? There is a crowded group of candidates, even at this point.

To most of the baseball galaxy, Joba Chamberlain's outing yesterday was hard to look at.

Ken Griffey Jr. went 2-for-3 with a homer, drove in four runs and scored twice to lead the Seattle Mariners in a 7-1 victory over the New York Yankees in the finale of a three-game set from Safeco Field.

It has been a little more than a month since Mariners right-hander Ian Snell was introduced to the Yankees, and he seemed taken aback by the quality of players that wore the road grays that day.

The Yankees begin a three-game set with the all-but-eliminated Seattle Mariners tonight.

Ian Snell takes the hill for the M's tonight. He needs to pitch well pretty soon, or the M's are going to have to seriously re-evaluate whether they can go into the off-season planning on him taking one of the spots in their rotation next year.

Via the PBC Blog , Ian Snell credits his Mariners pitching coaches with making some sort of adjustment to his delivery, which apparently turned things around for him and proves "how much more they want to win here [in Seattle] than over there." Not to, y'know, point out the obvious, but: Snell with Pittsburgh: 80.7 IP, 52 K, 44 BB, 7 HR, 5.36 ERA ...