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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Embed from Getty Images At least the Mariners can play spoiler. That is hardly where anyone on the team wanted them to end up when the season began. But the autopsy of the year - where three guys the Szymborski Projection System (ZiPS) had putting up a combined 15.2 FanGraphs
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Embed from Getty Images For the first time in a half decade, September baseball in Seattle does not mean the tension of a playoff chase. Those chases were vain and doomed more often than not, but the exhilaration and anticipation of the first month of fall is not something that
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Embed from Getty Images Ask not for whom the bell tolls. Friday saw the Mariners place one more stone on their own immurement, falling to 66-76 and seven games back of the division. In truth, they had long sealed themselves off from any reasonable chance of wriggling themselves out
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[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="4832"] Seattle Mariners designated hitter Lazaro Montes (99) reacts as he runs the bases after hitting a home run during the fifth inning against the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park. Mandatory Credit: Eric Canha-Imagn Images [https://www.
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Embed from Getty Images With MLB roster expansion in September, the Mariners brought on two players to turn the 26-man roster into the 28-man roster for the final month. One was lefty Hoby Milner, who the Mariners picked on a minor league deal Monday after the Cubs released
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[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="3354"] Seattle Mariners shortstop J.P. Crawford (3) mishandles a ball hit by Toronto Blue Jays third baseman Kazuma Okamoto (not pictured) during the seventh inning at Rogers Centre. Mandatory Credit: John E. Sokolowski-Imagn Images [https://www.emeraldcityspectrum.
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[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="1364"] Tacoma Rainiers shortstop Ryan Bliss takes a swing during a game in Aug. 2026. Image credit: Tacoma Rainiers/Instagram. [https://www.emeraldcityspectrum.com/caption] Minor league baseball isn’t the Show and it isn’t college. With the
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[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="601"] UC Berkeley scrumhalf Solomon Williams (center) carries the ball during a match against Saint Mary’s on April 25, 2026. Image credit: Diego Moran/Instagram. [https://www.emeraldcityspectrum.com/caption] Unlike the chaotic mess of the 2025 off-
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Embed from Getty Images It’s hard to describe how badly George Kirby needed the start he got on Tuesday night. On the other hand, it’s rather easy to describe how badly the Mariners need every win they can get this month and for the rest of the 2026
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Embed from Getty Images Bryce Miller’s previous start had become, for a given and quite load-bearing definition of “worst”, the worst loss in Mariners history, a 22-0 thrashing that began to be as humorous as it was maddening. Going by that same run differential metric, Sunday was
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[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="6233"] Seattle Mariners Leo Rivas (76) celebrates after hitting a walk off single against the Chicago Cubs during the tenth inning at T-Mobile Park. Mandatory Credit: Steven Bisig-Imagn Images [https://www.emeraldcityspectrum.com/caption] It’s the
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[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="5151"] Seattle Mariners pitcher Kade Anderson (13) during spring training photo day in Peoria, AZ. Mandatory Credit: Jayne Kamin-Oncea-Imagn Images [https://www.emeraldcityspectrum.com/caption] There’s a southpaw down in Double-A with a 1.06