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For a 50-game stretch during the 2025 season – from early June to mid-August – it seemed like the Mariners had found their second baseman for the next several seasons.

Though strong mutual interest remains between the Seattle Mariners and infielder Jorge Polanco to continue their relationship for at least the 2026 season, a deal for a contract extension has yet to be reached.

Veteran reliever Andrew Kittredge, a graduate of Ferris High School, is returning to a familiar place.

The Seattle Mariners’ first decision of the offseason will likely end up being their easiest.

With Major League Baseball officially moving into its offseason phase with the Dodgers winning the World Series, there is a slight lull before any activity — specifically trades and free-agent signings — that would signal the start of the “hot stove” season. Most of the player activity in the last few days have been decisions made by teams or players for contract options for next season. There ...

SEATTLE – The three finalists for each of the annual Major League Baseball awards as voted upon by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America were announced Monday during a special on MLB Network.

TORONTO – Before the thrilling Game 7 that concluded one of the best World Series in recent memory, Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts was pondering the meaning of grit.

TORONTO – Perhaps now we know why it took a quarter-century for a Major League Baseball team to repeat as World Series champions. Now that the Los Angeles Dodgers have done it, we understand how harrowing, hair-raising and humbling a feat it really is.

TORONTO – One of the greatest postseasons by a pitcher in modern baseball history saved the Los Angeles Dodgers’ season – and gave them the opportunity to ensure Yoshinobu Yamamoto’s playoff run is only further memorialized in the game’s record books.

While the painful memories of a stunning Game 7 loss will never be completely erased in their minds (unless they can right that wrong in the seasons ahead), the initial sting of falling a game short of the World Series will slowly start to fade.

Three things to keep in mind as the Mariners embark on what might be the most important offseason in franchise history: 1. They have the fewest roster needs of the Jerry Dipoto/Justin Hollander regime. 2. They have the most payroll space they’ve had in the decade under Dipoto/Hollander. 3. They have one of baseball’s richest farm systems, with several highly regarded prospects expected to ...

SEATTLE – A disappointing regular season turned into an encouraging October finish for Bryce Miller, who posted three strong playoff starts in the Mariners’ march to the American League Championship Series.

LOS ANGELES – No one was in Toronto to see it, with most not even born yet, but those magical enchanted images remain etched in their mind.

LOS ANGELES – Nine years, nine months and five days after Joe Carter rounded the bases in a building called the SkyDome, Dave and Cheryl Yesavage welcomed a baby boy into the world. They named him Trey. Like so many of his future Toronto Blue Jays teammates, he was not yet born the last time the franchise won a championship. At 22, Yesavage is merely the youngest.

LOS ANGELES – Because he can bend the sport of baseball to his will, because he does things that leave his peers slack-jawed, because he reveals so little of how he accomplishes any of it, the moments when Shohei Ohtani elicits the most shock are the ones in which he appears human.

After flying from Oklahoma City earlier that morning, Will Klein arrived in the Cincinnati visitors’ clubhouse on April 16, ready to give the Mariners’ beleaguered bullpen a lift.

LOS ANGELES – What is magic if not this: A bat and a ball and some age-old rules, once again casting their spell on some late October night, entrancing entire countries long past their bedtimes, hypnotizing grown men as earnestly as the children who idolize them – leaving everyone certain they will remember these 18 innings forever?

Editor’s note: Monday’s World Series Game 3 between the Toronto Blue Jays and Los Angeles Dodgers finished after print deadline.

SEATTLE – On March 21, 2024, a fan was invited into the press box at the Peoria Sports Complex in Arizona. In a 3-3 spring training tie between the Mariners and Reds, the young boy was tasked with playing public address announcer for the bottom of the fourth inning. After leadoff hitter Mitch Garver struck out, the boy leaned into the microphone and quickly met his match.