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="1234"] Miami Sharks hooker Sean McNulty prepares for a lineout during the 2025 season. Credit: Sean McNulty/Instagram. [https://www.emeraldcityspectrum.com/caption] The Seattle Seawolves have a hooker pair for 2026, with Sean McNulty - a former 2022 Seawolf
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Embed from Getty Images There’s a mystery wrapped in a riddle on the Mariners staff, and it’s a man from Mount Pleasant, Texas. Bryce Miller had an unexpected year as one of the best pitchers on the Mariners in 2024 and then was chased around by elbow inflammation
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The Seattle Mariners have tried several times to fill in the right-handed platoon niche over the first half of the 2020s - with decidedly limited success. Mitch Garver, who had a .344/.500/.438 slash (batting average/on-base percentage/slugging percentage) and (160 OPS+, where 100 is league average)
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[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="1686"] Seattle Mariners first baseman Josh Naylor (12) hits a RBI single in the first inning against the Toronto Blue Jays during game seven of the ALCS round for the 2025 MLB playoffs at Rogers Centre. Mandatory Credit: Nick
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Embed from Getty Images Mariners infielder Jorge Polanco, who slashed .265/.326/.495 with 26 home runs and 30 doubles in 2025, agreed to a two-year, $40 million contract with the New York Mets, taking him off the board for a Mariners team that is looking for one more
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[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="1444"] Seawolves prop Chance Wenglewski on the pitch before a Seawolves match in 2025. Image credit: Chance Wenglewski/Instagram. [https://www.emeraldcityspectrum.com/caption] Seattle Seawolves loosehead prop Chance Wenglewski announced his retirement from professional and international rugby on
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Embed from Getty Images The Seattle Seawolves had a rock at loosehead prop in 2024 and 2025, depending on the big Australian Cam Orr for a total of 33 games, 32 of them starts. Orr held up his end of the scrum well and offered Seattle an option to power
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Embed from Getty Images Playing for the 2024 Mariners, Collin Snider put up a 1.94 ERA, 1.176 walks and hits per innings pitched (WHIP), and 3.41 fielding independent pitching (FIP) in 41 ⅔ innings. He struck out 10.2 batters per nine innings and walked 2.8, both
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Embed from Getty Images ORLANDO, Fla. - The Seattle Mariners opted against adding a 39th player to their 40-man roster during the Rule 5 draft on Wednesday, Dec. 5, but they did fill out a couple more spots in their minor league system with two picks during the minor league
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Embed from Getty Images The Seattle Seawolves announced the signing of internationally capped Tongan lock Harison Mataele on Tuesday, Dec. 9, their second new signing for the 2026 engine room. Between test matches, Pacific Nations Cups, and the 2025 Autumn Nations Series, the 31-year-old, 6-8 forward has
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Embed from Getty Images ORLANDO, Fla. — Although the first two days of the 2025 MLB winter meetings went by without much action, a flurry of moves early on Tuesday, Dec. 9 took some potential Mariners targets off the board, gave some insight into how much it would cost for the