By Justin Worsley
In one day, the sources close to the Seattle Mariners not only ruled out one potential candidate to become the team's new manager, but they also announced who the team would hire.
ESPN.com has reported that former Cleveland Indians manager Eric Wedge will be hired as the team's new manager. The news comes just hours after it was announced that Bobby Valentine's return to the MLB would not be in Seattle.
Wedge manned the Indians for seven years, winning the AL Manager of the Year award in 2007, when Cleveland won the AL Central division with a 96-66 record.
Seattle fired manager Don Wakamatsu in August and the team finished with a 61-101 record with interim coach Daren Brown. Only the Pittsburgh Pirates had a worse record in the MLB than Seattle.
The Mariners have not made the playoffs since 2001. Cleveland was only a game away from going to their first World Series since 1997 before falling to the Boston Red Sox.
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