The WGOM

Mugshot Purgatory: Seattle Mariners

April 17th, 2007 by AMR

UPDATE! MLB's Gameday (the live internet play-by-play) finally has the 2007 mugshots showing instead of the 2006 mugshots, for at least the Cubs and Padres. However, the Cardinals and maybe the Pirates still have last year's pictures. I'll address this as it develops. End Update!

My impressions of the Mariners are 1) Ichiro! 2) Nice Uniforms, 3) Ubelmann and Frightwig are fans, 4) Hargrove might be the worst manager in MLB, and probably cost the team a postseason appearance last year.

Here's the proabable starters for the three-day series in Seattle:
"Jered's older brother" Jeff Weaver (2006 World Champion), "King" Felix Hernandez, and "Another Angel?" Jarrod Washburn.

(Weaver '07, Hernandez '07, Washburn '07)
Each of these guys gets broken down below.

Two starters that will avaoid the buzzsaw that is Nick Punto are Miguel Batista and Horacio Ramirez.

(Batista '07, Ramirez '07)

Kenji Johjima does most of the catching, and his backup is Jamie Burke.

(Johjima '06, '07; Burke '07)
Burke's neckline is just awful. I could not find Burke's mugshot from his time with the White Sox, although this may suffice for most Twins Fans:

(Burke '04, Hunter '04)

Relievers JJ Putz, Chris Reitsma, George Sherrill, with Arthur Rhodes on the 15-day DL..




(Putz '04, '06, '07; Reitsma '05, '06, '07; Sherrill '02, '06, '07; Rhodes '05, '06', '07)
Reitsma was born in Minneapolis (although he grew up in Canada). I live in Minneapolis, maybe we're related. The 2002 Sherrill is with the Winnipeg Goldeyes, an independent Northern-League team. They opened that season at Midway Stadium, playing the Saints. Rhodes's mugshots seem apologetically sad. "I'm sorry about that blown 5-run lead."

My #1 thing above I know about the Mariners is Ichiro! Suzuki, who has been with the team longer than I realized.

(Suzuki '01, '02, '03, '05, '06, '07)

Richie Sexson plays first base like Joe Mauer plays catcher... tall-ly.

(Sexson '98, '04, '05, '06, '07)
No pictures from Cleveland or Milwaukee. The '98 is from his time in the AAA Buffalo Bison. My opinion is that the teal-and-purple Diamondbacks are probably the worst modern MLB uniform. Maybe the their expansion-mates, the gradient teal-to-yellow Devil Rays, but those unifroms lasted only two years. The D:\backs' abominations lasted nine including one World Series.

The 2007 Mariners' former Royal is... outfielder Raul Ibanez.

(Ibanez '01, '03, '05, '06, '07)

On to that rotation, Jeff Weaver looks really scuzzy. I like that.

(Weaver '04, '05, '06, '07)

Felix Hernandez

(Hernandez '03, '05, '06, '07)
The 2003 Photo is from his time with the Everett AquaSox. (Yes, that's a team. They've worn tie-dyed uniforms.)

Jarrod Washburn

(Washburn '01, '02, '03, '04, '05, '06, '07)
I might take back that comment about the Purple-teal D:\backs, the late 90's Disney Angels were another type of awful.

Here's a few position players, back through time... Adrian Beltre, Yuniesky Betancourt, Willie Bloomquist, and Ben Broussard.




(Beltre '07, '06, '05, '02; Betancourt '07, '06, '05; Bloomquist '07, '06; Broussard '07, '06)

The following Joses (and one Julio) look important, but I only have one picture of each of them, Jose Lopez, Jose Guillen, Jose Vidro, and Julio Mateo.

(Lopez '07, Guillen '07, Vidro '07, Mateo '07)

Now, almost all the above mugshots for 2007 have black underbills. At least none are clearly grey (excepting maybe F-Her and Beltre), but a few of the M's minor leaguers clearly had grey underbills for their shots: Sean Green, Jon Huber, Oswaldo Navarro, and Rene Rivera.

(Green '07, Huber '07, Navarro '07, Rivera '07)
If you look back at the mugshots of Weaver and Washburn with the Angels, you can see that they had black underbills way back then.

This entry was posted by AMR on Tuesday, April 17th, 2007 at 8:00 am and is filed under Guest Writers, MLB, Mugshot Purgatory. It is one of 37 entries by the author. We are no longer accepting Letters to the Editor on this post.