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Seattle Mariners
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Franchise Record: (through 2012) 2,664-3,044 Post Season Record: 15-19 World Series Titles: 0 American League Pennants: 0 Playoffs: 4 (1995, 1997, 2000, 2001) Ballparks: Kingdome (April 6, 1977-June 27, 1999), Safeco Field (July 15, 1999-Present) Franchise Players: Jamie Moyer, Alvin Davis, Ken Griffey Jr., Randy Johnson, Mark Langston, Edgar Martinez, Jay Buhner, Ichiro Suzuki, Dan Wilson |
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In the next decade, the fortunes of the Seattle Mariners improved when Japanese video game giant Nintendo bought the team in 1992. Led by young outfielder Ken Griffey Jr. and pitcher Randy Johnson (who was acquired from the Montreal Expos in the Langston trade), the club exceeded .500 for the first time in 1991. In 1993, Lou Piniella was hired to manage the club, and he transformed them from also-rans to contenders. They won their division in 1995 and 1997. Despite trading Griffey and Johnson, they reached the playoffs again in 2000. In 2001, the Mariners won a league-best and MLB record-tying 116 games, but lost the American League Championship Series to the New York Yankees. Piniella left the club after the 2002 season, and by 2004, the team was back to its losing ways, finishing in last place with 99 losses.
The team has had seventeen managers. During the 1980s no manager was able to keep the job for two full seasons in a row.
[edit] Members of Mariners Hall of Fame
Alvin Davis (inducted 1997)
Dave Niehaus (broadcaster - inducted 2000)
Jay Buhner (inducted 2004)
Edgar Martinez (inducted 2007)
Randy Johnson (inducted 2012)
Dan Wilson (inducted 2012)
[edit] Further Reading
- Kirby Arnold: Tales from the Seattle Mariners Dugout, Sports Publishing LLC, Champaign, IL, 2007.
- Bill Mullins: Becoming Big League: Seattle, the Pilots, and Stadium Politics, University of Washington Press, Seattle, WA, 2013. ISBN 978-0-295-99252-5
- Jon Wells: Shipwrecked: A People's History of the Seattle Mariners, Epicenter Press, Kenmore, WA, 2012.
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