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share-square-13230 SEATTLE -- There’s no big mystery as to why “Mariners” was chosen as the nickname for Seattle’s Major League Baseball team when the franchise began in 1977, given Seattle’s nautical ties and location on the waters of Puget Sound. But as for the man who came up with that moniker? That’s another story. When the American League awarded an expansion franchise to Seattle, the team owners -- a group consisting of actor Danny Kaye and five Seattle-area businessmen -- decided to hold a fan contest to name the team. More than 600 names were submitted from about 15,000 en...

share-square-2043754 While the baseball world didn’t have the normal Winter Meetings experience this past week, there still were some similarities to the normal happenings, like a trade involving a big leaguer for prospects and of course, the usual Winter Meetings finale on Thursday: the Rule 5 Draft. And what a Rule 5 it was! It certainly was more active than any of us thought it would be, with 18 players taken in the Major League phase and another 56 taken in the Triple-A phase. So we delayed our weekly Pipeline Inbox in order to field some of your questions about all of Thursday’s acti...