Mariners Blog
Geoff Baker covers the Mariners for The Seattle Times. He provides daily coverage of the team throughout spring training, and during the season.
SubscribeApril 11, 2008 4:31 PM
Norton up, Jimerson designated
Posted by Bob Condotta
Bob Condotta here filling in for Larry Stone and Geoff Baker on the beat for one night, and there is one little piece of news as the Mariners announced before the game they have recalled Greg Norton from Tacoma and designated Charlton Jimerson for assignment.
Norton is here and available to play tonight while Jimerson spent the pre-game on the phone, making plans for his now-uncertain future, and shaking hands with his former teammates. He said he doesn't know if he would accept an assignment to Tacoma, hoping he'll get picked up by a Major League team sometime in the next 10 days.
Mariner manager John McLaren said the move was made to add a little more offensive punch off the bench. He also said Norton will give the M's a more flexible bench, saying opponents had been able to "make some moves that we couldn't counter.''
"We need to get a different look,'' he said.
Norton, a switch-hitter, hit .409 in 22 at-bats at Tacoma with no homers and three RBI.
McLaren said he liked Jimerson's talents but that "we just never had the opportunity to use him.''
In Jimerson's only at-bat, he hit into a double play yesterday in the 7-0 loss at Tampa Bay.
PUTZ THROWS, GOES WELL --- In another piece of news, J.J. Putz threw for 10 minutes from 130 feet today and said "everything went well. We're not trying to forecast anything. All I know is tomorrow same thing, long toss, with 20 throws with the catcher down, flat ground. Not a bullpen, flat ground. We don't know what is going to happen after that.''
But McLaren sounded encouraged saying "he threw well, he felt real good, free. But we don't know the next step.''
TONIGHT'S LINEUP --- It reads like this:
Ichiro
Lopez
Ibanez
Beltre
Vidro
Sexson
Wilkerson
Johjima
Betancourt
Digg
Newsvine
UPDATE - 12:30 PM
Recently listed
Popular searches
general classifieds
Garage & estate salesFurniture & home furnishings
Electronics
just listed
More listings
POST A FREE LISTING
- Records give rare look at how feds probed one reporter
- Kemper Freeman plans $1.2 billion expansion in Bellevue
- Earthquake scenarios show potential for huge damage, loss of life
- Pete Carroll on Seahawks' off-field problems: "It's real serious"
- Huge tornado hits Oklahoma City suburb, kills 51
- NBA player Terrence Williams arrested in Kent for gun threats
- Poverty hits home in local suburbs like S. King County
- Police: Brother-in-law ‘heavily involved’ in disposal of Susan Powell’s body
- Records: Slain intruder showed signs of mental breakdown
- Seattle’s NBA hopes still high as league warms to expansion
- IRS office was perplexed, inundated with tax-exempt applications
372 - Game thread: Hisashi Iwakuma tries to play 'stopper' for Mariners 278
- Guest: Stop using the term ‘illegal immigrants’ 144
- Mariners can't close Indians out, lose it 10-8 in 10th 143
- UW Medicine, Catholic health system to have ‘strategic affiliation’ 99
- Tornadoes slam Plains, Midwest; 1 dead in Okla. 86
- More Obama aides knew of IRS audit; Obama not told 77
- A few things to take away from this heartbreaking Mariners series 75
- Don't worry Husky football fans, we'll have you covered 66
- Carney: Senior White House staff knew of IRS probe 59
- Kemper Freeman plans $1.2 billion expansion in Bellevue
- UW Medicine, Catholic health system to have ‘strategic affiliation’
- Earthquake scenarios show potential for huge damage, loss of life
- Community Dinners church nourishes bodies, souls
- Poverty hits home in local suburbs like S. King County
- China’s wealthy paying cash for Eastside luxury homes
- deafReview gives a voice to deaf consumers
- UW expands online courses, this time from Harvard, MIT
- 129 concerts to see this summer
- Italy on the plate by way of Ballard | Taste
May
| Sun | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat |
| 1 | 2 | |||||
| 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |
| 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 |
| 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
| 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 |
| 31 |