Seattle Mariners general manager, Jack Zduriencik, plans to upgrade the teams offense this offseason but as of now does not plan to pursue Josh Hamilton, Greg Johns of MLB.com reports. “You have to be realistic about how you're going to allocate your dollars,” Zduriencik said. “Some of these things drag out and if you're sitting there waiting on one chip, other chips in front of you might go away and you end up with nothing.”
Reports surfaced early November that Hamilton was looking for a seven-year $175mm deal which would possibly put him out of Seattle's range. The team has other holes to fill and committing that much money to one player who is injury prone would not be a wise move. last season in 148 games, Hamilton hit .285/.354/.577 with 43 home runs and 128 RBIs.
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That being said, we have some good news..........
This offseason, the Mariners will install a huge, gigantic, enormous new Jumbotron at Safeco Field, replacing the old scoreboard that was part video screen, part white-only lights and part advertising.
The new display will be entirely a video screen, and will stretch the entire width of the center field bleachers where Safeco Field’s current scoreboard is mounted. At 201.5 feet wide and 56.7 feet tall — that’s 11,425 square feet — the video board will be 10 times the size of the current video screen when it’s installed before the 2013 season, according to the Mariners.
The viewing area will be the equivalent of about 2,182 42-inch flatscreen HDTVs, the M’s said.
That will make it the largest board in all of Major League Baseball. And it measures even wider than the humongous display at the new Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, making it the widest screen in all of sports.
Credit - Nick Eaton
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