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.
This blog is about baseball in general but specifically the Seattle Mariners and the Mariners’ Triple-A team, the Tacoma Rainiers. It will contain news, analysis, answers to your questions and audio reports.
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Here are a couple of stories on the winter meetings. ESPN.coms's Jayson Stark wraps it all up nicely and The News Tribune's John McGrath writes on how the Mariners may have come up short at the meetings but left with their wallets intact.
And there's this take from the Braves side of the Soriano-Ramirez trade by MLB.com with Atlanta GM John Schuerholz saying he feels good about the deal.
Finally, there's joy in Kansas City despite the Royals overpaying for Gil Meche. Kansas City Star columnist Joe Posnanski tells you why. For some weird reason, the link wouldn't work but here's the URL:
www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/sports/columnists/joe_posnanski/16190469.htm
