Truly Baseball Season

It is nice to see that spring training is coming to the end this weekend and real baseball will start.

The Seattle Mariners still have a couple things to wrap up as far the opening day roster goes. They have to decide who will be the backup catcher whether Steve Clevenger or Rob Brantly. The thought is the Mariners will try to pass Brantly through waivers you see he is out of options. I am not sure how many catchers the Mariners need in triple A however it would be nice to keep him around for depth. Brantly and Clevenger are the only left handed hitting catchers the Mariners have with experience. It would be nice though to trade one of the two for someone in return.

The Mariners have several choices for the last spot in the bullpen far as right handed pitchers. There is a possibility they could obtain a pitcher through trade or the waiver wire besides those who are still around. This is where the trade of Clevenger or Brantly could come in too.

The candidates remaining that the Mariners can choose from are Donn Roach, Blake Parker and Mayckol Guaipe. All three of them have had really good spring trainings. The advantage that Guaipe has is that he is on the 40 man roster while Donn Roach who has had the best spring training among them would have to be added on so someone would have to be removed. Of course with Clevenger and Brantly one of them not making the cut the Mariners will have their spot open.

Felix Hernandez will be making his last spring training start today against the San Diego Padres. The Mariners have Thursday off and then complete exhibition games on Saturday and Sunday. The season begins on Monday April 4 against the Rangers in Texas. All these games will be on TV.

Having Thursday as the day off it is real possible the decisions for the final bullpen spot and catcher will be done on that day. It is nice to see that we see what the team looks like now. Go Mariners!