Darrin Beene is entering his seventh year at The News Tribune, having covered the Tacoma Rainiers in 2005 and Major League Baseball for two years before that. Beene, a former assistant sports editor at The News Tribune, also worked for the Los Angeles Daily News and Los Angeles Times. He lives in the South Sound with his wife and two children.
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This from Larry LaRue, the News Tribune's Mariners writer:
Once the minor league regular season ends this week – and the Seattle Mariners return home Friday – eight players will be added to the roster, six of them Tacoma Rainiers.
Three players, outfielders Adam Jones and T.J. Bohn and utility player Greg Dobbs, will return to the Mariners, but five others will be called to the majors for the first time.
That group will include Rainiers pitchers Francisco Cruceta and Cesar Jimenez and Tacoma infielder Oswaldo Navarro. From Double-A San Antonio, the Mariners will call up pitchers Travis Chick and Ryan Feierabend.
Two of those pitchers will be make September starts to keep Felix Hernandez below 200 innings for his 2006 total.
For the most part, the others will get playing time as pinch runners, pinch hitters and late-inning defensive replacements – or pitch out of the bullpen on an as-needed basis.
In addition, two minor league coaches – San Antonio manager Daren Brown and his pitching coach, Scott Budner, will join the Mariners on Sept. 14 and finish the season with manager Mike Hargrove’s staff.
