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...with Bay, the payroll approach 104 million but that's not much of a raise over last year's payroll and gives the Mariners a good base to build around and a great shot at the WS in 2010. You'd have to skip Branyan and take you chances with Mike Carp as your starting first baseman though.
Ichiro! (RF)
Figgins (3B)
Bradley (LF/DH)
Bay (DH/LF)
Gutierrez (CF)
Lopez (2B)
Carp (1B)
Moore / Johnson / Alfonzo (C)
Wilson (SS)
Griffey can spell Bradley if he needs time off (or has been suspended for flipping the home plate umpire off and throwing his bat and home plate itself into the crowd...LOL) and he can put on a first baseman's mitt and spell Carp a bit perhaps. The other benchies are the back-up catcher, Tui and Hall