2007 Seattle Mariners

The Seattle Mariners' 2007 season is their 31st in franchise history, and has started with the Mariners trying to win their first AL West title since they tied the MLB record for wins in a season in the 2001. Right fielder José Guillén and designated hitter José Vidro were expected to be key players for the year.

After spending two and a half seasons managing the Mariners and guiding the team to a 44-33 record this season, including a Major League-best 25-12 record since May 22, manager Mike Hargrove shocked the team by announcing his resignation prior to a July 1 game against the Toronto Blue Jays. Hargrove said he could no longer give the same passion or commitment to his bosses and players. Bench coach John McLaren was named as Hargrove's replacement.^[1] The Mariners won eight consecutive games between June 23 and July 1, making Hargrove the first manager since 1900 to resign his position after a winning streak of more than seven games.^[2]

For the seventh consecutive time in his seven year career, Ichiro Suzuki was named to the All-Star Game, held at AT&T Park in San Francisco. Closing pitcher J.J. Putz was selected to his first All-Star Game.^[3] Suzuki was voted the Most Valuable Player of the All-Star game, going 3-for-3 with a two-run, inside-the-park home run (the first home run in All-Star history to be hit inside the park).^[4] Three days after the All-Star game, on July 13, The Mariners announced that they had signed Suzuki to a five-year contract extension with an estimated value of $90 million, making Suzuki the highest-paid player in Mariners history for the second time.^[5]

1 Regular season
2 Current roster
3 References

[edit] Regular season

[edit] Season standings

AL West	W	L	Pct.	GB	Elim.#
Los Angeles Angels	87	61	.588	--	--
Seattle Mariners	78	69	.531	8½	7
Oakland Athletics	74	76	.493	14	E
Texas Rangers	69	79	.466	18	E

E = Eliminated from winning the division

[edit] Game log

Template:2007 Seattle Mariners season game log

[edit] Player stats

Last updated 2007-09-10.

[edit] Batting

Note: G = Games played; AB = At Bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting Average; HR = Home Runs; RBI = Runs Batted In

Player	G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
Adrian Beltre	128	505	143	.283	23	90
Yuniesky Betancourt	140	487	139	.285	9	58
Jose Guillen	132	515	149	.289	19	88
Raul Ibanez	129	499	142	.285	17	91
Kenji Johjima	120	435	125	.287	14	56
Jose Lopez	130	462	120	.260	8	54
Richie Sexson	121	434	89	.205	21	63
Ichiro Suzuki	140	590	207	.351	6	59
Jose Vidro	130	489	153	.313	5	55

[edit] Pitching

[edit] Starting pitchers

Note: GS = Games started; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player	GS	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
Cha Seung Baek	11	64.1	3	3	5.74	46
Miguel Batista	28	167.1	13	11	4.73	114
Ryan Feierabend	7	37.0	1	4	7.78	19
Felix Hernandez	26	162.0	12	7	4.17	144
Horacio Ramirez	18	96.1	8	5	6.45	39
Jarrod Washburn	28	170.2	9	13	4.32	97
Jeff Weaver	23	125.0	6	12	6.05	69

[edit] Relief pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; SV = Saves; W = Wins; L = Losses; H = Hits; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player	G	IP	W	L	H	SV	ERA	SO
Jorge Campillo	1	1.0	0	0	2	0	9.00	2
Jason Davis	24	37.0	2	0	42	0	5.84	19
Sean Green	54	60.0	5	2	66	0	3.90	48
Jon Huber	5	9.0	0	0	12	0	4.00	5
Mark Lowe	4	2.2	0	0	2	0	6.75	3
Julio Mateo	9	12.0	1	0	12	0	3.75	4
Brandon Morrow	52	55.1	3	3	49	0	3.90	58
Eric O'Flaherty	48	49.0	7	1	41	0	3.49	32
J.J. Putz	59	63.0	2	1	32	37	1.43	69
Chris Reitsma	26	23.2	0	2	37	0	7.61	11
Ryan Rowland-Smith	19	30.2	0	0	29	0	4.11	33
George Sherrill	65	40.0	2	0	25	1	2.70	44
Sean White	12	27.0	1	1	30	0	6.67	11
Jake Woods	4	10.2	0	0	9	0	5.91	4
John Parrish*	6	6.2	0	0	15	0	8.10	2
Rick White*	6	5.1	0	1	42	0	5.84	19