According to Ryan Divish of The News Tribune, Seattle Mariner’s GM jack Zduriencik divides the season up into three parts: the first third is for finding out what you have, the second is adding pieces to address what you don’t have, and the last is playing games.

Zduriencik is in need of a hitter and he’ll probably get one once teams start selling.

“It’s like hunting season,” Zduriencik said. “We’re not in hunting season right now. No one is selling.”

“I expect something to happen,” he said. “It might not happen now, it might not happen for a month from now. I’m certainly aware of what our strengths and weaknesses on this club are.”

A few weeks ago free agent outfielder and DH Jermaine Dye said he was interested in playing for the Mariners, but it does not appear serious talks took place.

Zduriencik was asked about Ken Griffey Jr.’s status with the team.

“You wait and see,” he said. “The one thing Ken was very explicit about this winter is that he wanted to be part of this ballclub. He wanted to be here and do whatever he could to help us.”

“You hope he gets on track,” he said. “It’s early. It’s early for anybody. Where do we end up with Ken? We’ll see. We have to wait and see. We’ll give him a little more of a chance to produce, like any other player. We’ll see what happens.”