During the final week of the 2008 calendar year, rumors flew around the Internet that left-hander Erik Bedard is a candidate to be traded to the New York Yankees. 

--2B Jose Lopez is having another big winter with Lara in Venezuela, averaging . 

The Mariners managed to avoid setting a club record for losses in 2008, but beyond that the season was horrible in about every way possible. 

SURVEYING THE MOONSCAPE that was the local sports year in 2008, the wisest course for the local outfits for 2009 is to not try growing crops right away. 

It is early June and Lorin Sandretzky is where so many of his beloved Seattle teams will spend 2008: flat on his back and in dire need of medical help. 

What do Manny and Chase Utley have in common? Find out as we look back on baseball's strangest performances of 2008. 

During the final week of the 2008 calendar year, rumors flew around the Internet that left-hander Erik Bedard is a candidate to be traded to the New York Yankees. 

--2B Jose Lopez is having another big winter with Lara in Venezuela, averaging . 

The Mariners managed to avoid setting a club record for losses in 2008, but beyond that the season was horrible in about every way possible. 

During the final week of the 2008 calendar year, rumors flew around the Internet that left-hander Erik Bedard is a candidate to be traded to the New York Yankees. 

--2B Jose Lopez is having another big winter with Lara in Venezuela, averaging . 

The Mariners managed to avoid setting a club record for losses in 2008, but beyond that the season was horrible in about every way possible. 

During the final week of the 2008 calendar year, rumors flew around the Internet that left-hander Erik Bedard is a candidate to be traded to the New York Yankees. 

--2B Jose Lopez is having another big winter with Lara in Venezuela, averaging . 

The Mariners managed to avoid setting a club record for losses in 2008, but beyond that the season was horrible in about every way possible.