Talking Baseball

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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Go inside the dugout with the Seattle Mariners and Tacoma Rainiers
Thursday, March 15th, 2007
Posted by Darrin Beene @ 11:49:23 pm

After Thursday's game – an embarrassing loss by the Mariners, who dropped one to a San Francisco Giants team featuring almost exclusively minor leaguers – manager Mike Hargrove let this drop:

Closer J.J. Putz, after throwing his scheduled 25-pitch, all-fastball bullpen, had his bothersome right elbow tighten up on him. Hargrove said more details would be available Friday morning.

Not good news for Putz or the Mariners, who need their big closer when the season begins in less than three weeks. Putz has not pitched in a spring training game since March 5 and is getting close to not being able to be ready for opening day, which is April 2.

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