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Hello and welcome to the third and perhaps more permanent iteration of my site. It’s certainly fancier, I’ll give them that. I suspect some of you have been following since my monochromatic Blogspot days, and many more since my slightly-more-polychromatic MVN days, where I was among the last to abandon ship. Now, I’m here at Bloguin, and navigating with increased caution for the fear that I might break something more valuable than I am. Also I picked up an S or something along the way. I think it will stand for Seattle.
For those of you that are just now joining us, salutations. I’m Jay Yencich. You may have heard rumors of me as being that guy who stares at stat lines from the Venezuelan Summer League trying to make sense of them. If that doesn’t make any kind of sense to you right now, don’t worry we’ll get to it. I’ve been following the Mariners minor league since 2001, when I stumbled onto San Antonio Missions broadcasts late in the season, and have been blogging about it since the beginning of 2004. That means I have tenure in the M’s blogosphere, one of the biggest sports communities I know of and also one that has had a lot of turnover in its time. I can also get away with saying crazy things for public consumption, because hey, I’ve done my time.
During the regular season, I post daily updates of the four to nine active teams, recapping the night’s box scores and generally going over other items and bits of interest. I’ll also do transactions, most large but some minor, live blog the draft, write team previews, comment on the international market, share insights from games attended or listened to, and most other things that fall roughly under that umbrella. I also post weekly wrap-ups for public consumption at Mariners uber-blog USS Mariner, as well as float about various sites making comments, not all of which are snark. In the offseason, I do some review, plan for more review that I don’t actually do until it becomes preview, and chip in weekly stat wraps of the assorted winter league goings on from areas well-known to the media like Arizona to stranger stopovers in Nicaragua and Colombia. In summary, I keep busy, even with the obscurer stuff.
Some may wonder at this point, well, why now? What’s been keeping you? Did New Year’s really go that poorly for you? Well, in reality, even though I haven’t kept a home proper for a little while now, I’ve been quite busy being a rock star or something. I contributed a top ten list, a first for me I think, to the Mariners Annual project Dave Cameron kicked off, along with a bunch of other bigshot analysts, and ended up with one of the longer pieces in the magazine. In recent days, I posted an article on what the offseason has meant for player development over at USS Mariner. I’ve also conducted a number of interviews at Lookout Landing, where I sat down for a few questions along with Baseball America’s Conor Glassey, Mariner Central, and recently, a two-parter with the folks over at Sodo Mojo, which marked the first time I had conducted an interview via Facebook messages. Note: you can find me there, but the odds of me responding are extremely low unless I personally know you. Also I am secretly a computer that spits out nothing but numbers and subculture references. And sometimes snark.
What does the future hold for Mariner[s] Minors? More numbers, probably. Continued irrational excitement over silly names and the international scouting that brings them to us. The laughs, the struggle, the tears, the hate mail. I’ve not yet started Twittering like a fifteen-year-old girl, but that’s one possibility, as there’s this feature there and some kind of market for it, owing to reasons I can’t fully understand. Other projects will probably come up and I’ll participate with them as time allows (despite popular conjecture, I have a life, and this is not my primary job). In the meantime, I’m happy to have you here. Get comfortable, because by the time July rolls around, oh man… Well, you’ll see.
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