The Mariners trimmed the major league rosterTuesday, sending five players to AAA Tacoma and six to the club’s minor league camp. Most notable players affected were LHP Bobby LaFromboise and INF Carlos Triunfel, scheduled to start the season with the Rainiers of the Pacific Coast League.
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Michael Bennett isn’t going anywhere. The Seahawks and Bennett agreed to a reported four-year, $28.5 million deal Monday that includes $16 million in guaranteed money. As a defensive end and tackle last season, Bennett played in every game and led the Seattle with 8.5 sacks, 25 quarterback hits and added 31 tackles, one forced fumble
Pac-12 coaches named C.J. Wilcox to the second all-league team and selected Nigel Williams-Goss to the five-man All-Freshman Team.
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Perhaps suggesting that MLS has reached the same level of foolishness as NFL, the pro soccer season begins Saturday with replacement referees after an impasse between the league’s referee union and its employer, the Professional Referees Organization, forced a lockout.
Mariners third base coach John Stearns, sidelined since undergoing surgery for a hiatal hernia, informed the club he is stepping down from his position. Manager Lloyd McClendon has agreed to a re-assignment of Stearns to the scouting department.