While filling out the coaching staff and signing free agent Chris Iannetta to be their starting catcher were important Mariners’ developments throughout the day, much of that was overshadowed by a story by John Harper in the New York Daily News.
The story was basically a contradictory report to former Mariners’ coach Andy Van Slyke’s ramblings about Robinson Cano being the worst player he’d ever seen in the last 20 years on a sports talk radio show in St. Louis. Harper talked to third base coach Rich Donnelly about Cano’s performance and effort level.