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Dec. 23—It's almost too easy. The cliches around the holiday season are aplenty to describe the Mariners offseason moves or lack thereof. Take your pick: Mariners getting nothin' for Christmas Santa forgot about Seattle No presents for Jerry Dipoto and Justin Hollander. The Grinch who stole all the first baseman But the organization's continued refusal to invest in player payroll and the ...

SEATTLE – As Seattle Mariners fans await an answer to the most pressing (depressing?) question hovering over the team this offseason – will they have to trade staff anchor Luis Castillo to upgrade the lineup? – the club has already executed its most meaningful move to complement the offense.

It's December, which means spring training is still two months away and that rosters are far from filled. To view the just-wrapped-up winter meetings through the lens of finality would be premature. Plenty of signings can and will occur in the coming weeks. Same goes for trades. But if you're a Mariners fan, you have every right to be stewing in your seat thinking "same old M's." 

SEATTLE – As prices for high-end starting pitchers have swelled this week, the Seattle Mariners have received an increasing number of calls from other teams interested in veteran starter Luis Castillo.

After three days of meetings — some required by MLB and many others with agents and opposing teams — the Mariners did not make any sort of major transaction to improve their 2025 roster.

As Roki Sasaki weighs his (many, many) options coming over to Major League Baseball, no one is exactly sure what the Japanese pitching phenom desires in a new team. Not even the man he's hired to represent him. But Joel Wolfe believes Sasaki will have an open mind when he starts to meet with MLB clubs next week, and Wolfe suggested that the 23-year-old right-hander might be better off playing outside of a large market like Los Angeles or New York.

Dan Wilson’s morning plans Wednesday included a sit-down breakfast with Seattle’s three Mariners beat writers for a casual conversation at the Hilton Anatole, an annual tradition for all the league’s managers and media members during the third day of the MLB Winter Meetings.

DALLAS — With the lowest odds — a 0.5% chance — of earning the No. 1 overall pick, the Seattle Mariners didn’t go into the Tuesday’s MLB draft lottery thinking they would hit the grand prize.

With Japanese pitcher Roki Sasaki now officially posted by the Chiba Lotte Marines, his agent, Joel Wolfe of Wasserman Baseball, held a semi-impromptu news conference late Tuesday morning in the media workroom at the Anatole Hilton at the MLB Winter Meetings.

The Juan Soto frenzy finally came to a record-setting conclusion Sunday night — with the slugger agreeing to a 15-year, $765-million deal with the New York Mets — which has kick-started more activity around the league during Day 1 of the MLB Winter Meetings. Here’s the early buzz Monday surrounding the Seattle Mariners:

The questions posed at the end of the Seattle Mariners’ disappointing 2024 season remain critical focal points entering the heart of the offseason: Was the Mariners’ late-season offensive resurgence under new manager Dan Wilson legitimate? Was it a mirage? Or was it something in between?