A few from earlier in the week

This week's Seattle Times M's Farm Report is about a possible future Timber Rattler

Gallagher's little victories add up to big progress
After a tough junior season at Stanford, Nolan Gallagher wanted to put it behind him and make a good opening impression as a professional.
Mission accomplished for the right-handed pitcher, a fourth-round draft pick last month.
Gallagher did not allow a run in his first two starts at short-season Class A, and has a 1.29 earned-run average over 21 innings. He has allowed 14 hits, walked four and struck out 17. Hitters are batting .184 against him.
Also, another JJ Putz story
Putz has become bullpen's "old guy"

A breakfast excursion last week in Kansas City by members of the Mariners bullpen led to J.J. Putz having his first senior moment.

Putz was still absorbing the news of his All-Star Game selection and being named the American League's Pitcher of the Month for June when he glanced down the table at his fellow relievers munching on their eggs and pancakes. The dominant closer, in just his third full season in the majors, promptly nudged bullpen coach Jim Slaton, who was seated opposite him.

"I told him, 'Turn to your right and look down the table at how young we've gotten in the bullpen,' " Putz said. "The only guy who wasn't there, because his family was in town, was George [Sherrill]. And he's the other old guy."
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None of the other Seattle relievers — Brandon Morrow, Ryan Rowland-Smith, Sean Green, Eric O'Flaherty, or the injured Jon Huber, Sean White and Mark Lowe — have even one full season behind them. Putz is the eldest of the group at age 30, and at 6 feet 5, 250 pounds, has the physical characteristics to lead a pack of Alpha-male types.

But it's the way he carries that size, with a humble manner and approach to each workday, that causes others to respect and want to emulate him. Putz has learned the added responsibility of fatherhood, with 2-year-old twin daughters, Lauren and Kaelyn, and his wife, Kelsey, now in San Francisco with him for his first All-Star Game tonight. He wasn't always as mature as he can seem at times now, and there are still occasions when the kid inside him slips out long enough to pull clubhouse pranks.

The difference is, he's all business when he has to be.