With Cal Raleigh hitting "the most home runs by a catcher in the history of baseball before the all-star break" You know I had to check if that was, y'know, true Turns out, yeah Katsuya Nomura, whose 52 homers in 1963 is the record for catchers anywhere in the world, had 27

RIP Hall of Famer Dave Parker 🙏 Here he is gunning down runners in back-to-back innings of the 1979 All-Star Game...

Great to see two former Tacoma Rainiers voted as All-Star Game starters - and one of them is even representing the Mariners!

Victor Labrada is the first Rainier to hit a grand slam for their first Triple-A home run since Nick Franklin did so on June 30, 2012 against Fresno #TridentsUp

I didn't see one for or against Tacoma in my 26 years!

Congrats to Cal! Rainiers store celebration might interest some of you...

Personal to JJ Cooper: we gotta bring back the Triple-A All-Star Game, right?

On Ichiro's @BaseballHall #Induction day, congratulations to Ted Heid and Jim Colborn, two then-Seattle Mariners staffers who identified #51's talent and brilliantly won the posting. Few big league teams were on Ichiro at the time, and the M's were all over it. 🇯🇵⚾️

RIP Ryan Sandberg, the last person to manage a Pacific Coast League team after having been inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Just noticed the Braves and Reds each scored eight runs in the eighth inning today. Braves won the game, 12-11 in the tenth (it was 3-3 after seven, 11-11 after eight). This is some absolutely magnificent PCL stuff, happening in the majors.

Rainiers legend Andrew Kittredge

Follow the new guy on the Mariners beat

The Monkey Prince Angada delivers Rama’s message to Ravana, by Manaku, 1725, 📸 by Steph Chambers

Which one pitched more games at Cheney Stadium? Turn your dinner party up a notch with this trivia banger.

I dunno, I just kind of like this.

“Cal! Cal! Cal! Cal! JP! Cal! Julio!” Mass of humanity here

Julio took a slide down the hill along with several of his teammates

RT because if you are interested in Washington high school sports no one will cover this more thoroughly than Todd & Lauren.