Article: SCOUTING REPORT.(Special Section)

Byline: SHANE O'NEILLSpecial to the P-I

The Mariners made several significant moves during the off-season aimed at upgrading their offense, maintaining baseball's best defense, and supplementing their bullpen. The question now is whether the Mariners have improved enough to return to the postseason. How major league scouts rate them:

STARTERS

Jamie Moyer

LEFT-HANDER

ROLE: No. 1 starter

SCOUTING REPORT: Canny, resourceful . ... The consummate touch-and-feel pitcher . ... Doesn't throw any harder than 84 mph, but gets a lot of mileage out of his fastball; sinks it, cuts it and locates it to both sides of the plate ...

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