Robinson Cano is a Mariner.

Multiple outlets, including ESPN Deportes and CBS Sports, Friday morning reported that the Mariners signed the most important free agent of the off-season, the power-hitting second baseman formerly of the Yankees, to a 10-year, $240 million contract after a night of heated negotiations.

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Robinson Cano chartered a private jet to Seattle Thursday to meet with Mariners brass about becoming the highest-paid player in franchise history, according to a report from Enrique Rojas of ESPN Deportes.

Per ESPN, Seattle is prepared to offer the 31-year-old second baseman a 10-year contract worth between $230-240 million.

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The Mariners Tuesday named former catcher Dan Wilson the club's minor league catching coordinator. A member of the club's Hall of Fame, Wilson will work with catchers at all levels of the organization, beginning during spring training and continuing through the minor league season. He will travel to each of the Mariners affiliates several times during the season.

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Part of the tradition of the Seattle sports winter is a story that the Mariners are in pursuit of one of the premier free agent hitters in baseball. Following failed recruitments in previous years of Prince Fielder and Josh Hamilton, the Mariners, true to form and according to ESPNNewYork.com Tuesday, are said to be a major player for All-Star second baseman Robinson Cano of the Yankees.

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Willie Bloomquist is returning to Seattle.

Jon Heyman of CBS Sports tweeted Monday the Mariners were close to bringing back the 36-year-old utility infielder and Puget Sound-area native. An hour later, Diamondbacks beat writer Nick Piecoro said Bloomquist's deal is two years and "between $5 million and $6 million total."

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One down, one to go.

With Chuck Armstrong's decision Monday afternoon to retire as the Mariners president and CEO effective Jan. 14, 2014, the question now becomes: When will Howard Lincoln follow suit? For Mariners fans, aggrieved over 12 years of tepid teams, no playoffs and scant hope, Lincoln's departure can't come soon enough.

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The Mariners completed their coaching staff for the 2014 season Monday with the hires of Howard Johnson, hitting coach; Mike Rojas, bullpen; Andy Van Slyke, first base; Rick Waits, pitching; and Chris Woodward, infield. They join Trent Jewett (bench), Jason Phillips (bullpen catcher) and Scott Budner (batting practice pitcher) on new manager Lloyd McClendon's staff.

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Despite having a year left on his contract, pitching coach Carl Willis was fired as the Mariners continue the purge of former manager Eric Wedge's staff. The Seattle Times also reported that bullpen coach Jaime Navarro was going to be reassigned to the minor leagues.

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A Cactus League schedule that includes 33 games, starting with the annual charity contest against the San Diego Padres Feb. 27 at the Peoria Sports Complex, was released Tuesday by the Mariners.  In recent seasons, the Mariners have played a number of preseason contests outside Arizona (Salt Lake City, Las Vegas, Sacramento), but this year the entire schedule is in Cactus League ballparks.

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Trent Jewett, who spent the past three seasons with the Washington Nationals, was named as bench coach for new Mariners manager Lloyd McClendon Monday. Jewett, 49, served as Washington's third base coach in 2013 and worked as its first base coach before that.

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I learned something new Thursday, not entirely a novel experience. At mid-afternoon, I found out that I, you, all of us, are about to enter “a golden age for the Mariners.” I would have settled for a comparatively unexciting renaissance, but if it’s to be “a golden age,” bring it on.

While this emphatically sets a record for quickest trip from black hole to golden age, at least in the expansion era, or DH era, or whatever era, I’m not about to cast stones at Lloyd McClendon on his first day on the job. A few pebbles, perhaps, but none aimed at McClendon.

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Until the Mariners stop losing, most fans are going to meet every move made by the front office with derision, sarcasm and apathy, or some peculiar cocktail of all three.

That was made clear Tuesday in the hours after the club announced they hired Lloyd McClendon as their seventh manager in the last six seasons.

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Unqualified for the world's worst occupation  -- a single mother with three kids and no income -- Lloyd McClendon had to settle for second-worst: He's the new manager of the Seattle Mariners. I'm sure he knows what he's doing, which puts him one-up on his new bosses, but either he didn't have Eric Wedge's phone number, or Wedge signed a confidentiality agreement to stay mum.

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Outfielder Raul Ibanez, who tied Ted Williams' 1960 major league record with 29 home runs as a 41-year-old last season with the Mariners, was named Monday the winner of the 49th Hutch Award, given annually to a major league player who best exemplifies the "honor, courage and dedication of baseball great Fred Hutchinson," on and off the field.

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Passing on the chance for someone fresh to the job of managing an MLB club -- nine managers are first-timers -- the Mariners Wednesday went for the one experienced guy among the five finalists, 54-year-old Lloyd McClendon, whose experience managing in Pittsburgh is fitting for the task he Seattle. He was 336-446 (.430).

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The Mariners predictably declined 2014 options Friday on OF Franklin Gutierrez and LHP Joe Saunders, making both free agents. RHP Stephen Pryor (torn right latissimus) has been reinstated from the 60-day disabled list and added back to the team's 40-man roster, which now includes 34 players.

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After Eric Wedge said he would not return to the Mariners "even if they offered me a five-year contract," a colleague made the e-mail observation: "Don't know who will replace Wedge, and I'm not even sure it even matters. Who would want to manage the Mariners, anyway?"

Well, lots of guys, but none who have been major league managers, none who understand the Seattle organization or its history, and none, save one, whose name rings any bells.

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The Mariners Thursday announced that five players, per MLB rule, have become free agents, including DH Kendrys Morales, who led Seattle with a .277 average and 80 RBIs, and Raul Ibanez, who matched Ted Williams' 1960 record for most home runs in a season by a 41-year-old with 29. Ibanez also ranked third on the team in hits (110) and RBIs (65).

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