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Gonzaga, Washington State and the city of Spokane will be represented when the Major League Baseball season begins Thursday.

PEORIA, Ariz. – In seasons past, just making the playoffs and ending an infamous and embarrassing drought served as the primary preseason goal for the Seattle Mariners.

Credit to the Mariners, the organization did what it takes to keep their conscience around for the long-term at a sizable cost. Two days before opening day, they agreed to a 6-year, $105 million contract extension with Raleigh.

The question has come up a few times among us Seattle sports scribes: If you were to take any active athlete from one of this town’s teams and place them on a random street corner, who would be the most recognizable? The consensus answer is one Julio Rodríguez, and for good reason.

Seattle manager Dan Wilson wasn't a leading man when he played in 1995. But he was what the Mariners needed. His calm stability, his understated intensity, came at the most important position and at the most important time in franchise history.

SEATTLE – The Seattle Mariners have one path to the playoffs.

With opening day of the 2025 season on Thursday, the Seattle Mariners made sure their catcher and conscience of their team will be with them for years to come.

PEORIA, Ariz. – Nearly a year later, with his first competitive pitch since major elbow surgery, Matt Brash stepped on the mound at Peoria Sports Complex and fired a 98.5-mph fastball for a first-pitch strike.

PEORIA, Ariz. — In their final tuneup before Thursday’s opening day against the Athletics, the Mariners wound up with a 7-7 tie Monday afternoon against the San Diego Padres in their last Cactus League game.

PEORIA, Ariz. – This reunion ended with a somewhat anticipated but early goodbye.

PEORIA, Ariz. – For Mariners fans who cut the cable cord years ago and have been frustrated by limited access to watching Mariners games, there is a reason to celebrate.

The rest of the Mariners' starting pitchers are starting to rub off on Emerson Hancock, and that's an encouraging development on multiple fronts. There has always been a seriousness about Hancock, a 25-year-old right-hander who has generally taken a head-down, be-seen-but-not-heard approach to try to prove himself as a big-leaguer the past couple years. 

When they arrived on set together, Julio Rodriguez and J.P. Crawford knew they would be shooting a Mariners commercial with one GOAT. They didn't know anything about the other goat with whom they would also be sharing the stage. "Oh (expletive)! That's a real goat in there!" 

PEORIA, Ariz. – Rowdy Tellez is a big personality. Gregarious. Jokes around. Keeps the atmosphere of the clubhouse light. He showed up on his first day in Peoria wearing jean shorts and a neon shirt.

A’s 7, Mariners 6 at Hohokam Stadium in Mesa

When the regular season begins, Dylan Moore will likely always pack four gloves with him: a first base mitt, a couple of infield gloves and an outfielder glove. His most prized glove, that remains at home. It's the Gold Glove that Moore won a season ago when he was deemed the most versatile defensive player in the American League. 

Mariners 8, Reds 3 at Goodyear Ballpark

Padres 8, Mariners 3 at the Peoria Sports Complex

PEORIA, Ariz. – In an organization filled with talented starting pitching, spanning from the major-league roster to the complex in the Dominican Republic, no pitcher has embodied the Mariners’ strategy of pitching development and performance more than Logan Gilbert.