Bluechel graduated from SPU in 2025 with a degree in Linguistics and Classics. Before joining Emerald City Spectrum, he wrote with the Falcon for two years between 2022 and 2024, covering SPU athletics as well as sports in the greater Seattle area.
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[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="1206"] Image credit: LaRome White/Instagram. [https://www.emeraldcityspectrum.com/caption] Both of the 2025 Seawolves minute-eaters at number one - Cam Orr and Chance Wenglewski - announced their retirements during this past offseason. While the Seawolves tapped capped USA
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Embed from Getty Images While the primary duties at the Seawolves’ number 10 role will be performed by former SaberCat Davy Coetzer for the 2026 season, the team was always going to need a solid secondary guy as injury cover and to provide Coetzer some rest. Enter Dorian Jones, who
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Embed from Getty Images The Seattle Seawolves announced the signing of tighthead prop Ignacio Péculo on Tuesday, the ninth international player that is known to be on the 2026 Seawolves roster. The 26-year-old Péculo is internationally capped with the Uruguayan national team Los Teros, appearing in 24 test
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[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="3382"] St. Louis Cardinals second baseman Brendan Donovan (33) hits a solo home run against the Milwaukee Brewers in the third inning at American Family Field. Mandatory Credit: Benny Sieu-Imagn Images [https://www.emeraldcityspectrum.com/caption] Get thy
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Embed from Getty Images The Seattle Mariners announced 34 non-roster Spring Training invitees on Friday. These are players who are not on the 40-man roster - many of them some of the top prospects in the organization - who will nevertheless be able to compete in Spring Training exhibition games
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[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="3600"] Rick Rizzs sits next to the statue of Dave Niehaus, his longtime broadcasting cohost. Credit: Ben Van Houten/Seattle Mariners. [https://www.emeraldcityspectrum.com/caption] SEATTLE, Wash. - Few things are as stable in Mariners baseball as the velvet
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Embed from Getty Images For nearly the entire StatCast era, the American League Championship Series saw the Astros compete year in and year out. Akin to the mighty Patriots’ dynasty years with Tom Brady under center, when the AFC Championship Game was known as the “Foxborough Invitational”, one might as
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Embed from Getty Images It’s not high-profile when a player gets dealt for a lump sum of cash, but there’s a reason teams make these sorts of deals. For the Mariners, Criswell is the latest in a series of generally minor moves to fill out organizational depth
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[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="1203"] Callum Botchar carries the ball for the Canadian international team during a Pacific Nations Cup match against Japan on Aug. 30, 2025. Image credit: Callum Botchar/Instagram [https://www.emeraldcityspectrum.com/caption] The Seattle Seawolves announced the signing
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Embed from Getty Images Death, taxes, and Andrés Muñoz coming out to pitch in the ninth inning. The Mariners’ best reliever by ERA and both types of wins above replacement followed up an excellent 2024 with an elite 2025, anchoring the bullpen as he more than lived up to preseason
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Embed from Getty Images Much of the MLB offseason has consisted of a crawl, a slow drip, whatever metaphor you prefer for when things happen at a snail’s pace. But eventually, things had to give, and teams and players needed to make their final decisions as less than a