Mariners Inn opens housing in arena district
Why it matters: The $26 million development doubles Mariners' capacity as the nonprofit expands services to include women for the first time in its nearly 100-year history.
What they're saying: Mariners Inn CEO David Sampson held back tears at Tuesday's ribbon-cutting event as he thanked staff members and residents who helped see the project through.
"This has been our shared vision for at least nine or 10 years now — ever since they started speculating about where the new arena would be and folks started coming around, 'What are you going to do?'" he told Axios. "We decided we would stay here and make this happen."
Flashback: Mariners Inn was founded in 1925 by the Episcopal Diocese of Michigan.
It moved to its current location in 1955 when the original inn on Griswold Street — where the city's Mariners' Church provided lodging, food and clothing for poor people — was demolished to make way for the Detroit Civic Center.
State of play: In addition to new rental housing, the 65,000-square-foot facility has a medical and mental health clinic and more than 4,000 square feet of retail space.
Mariners partnered on the project with Cinnaire Solutions, which was also involved in La Joya Gardens, an affordable housing development that opened this year in Southwest.
Zoom in: Mariners resident George Hubble, 64, recalled his 2018 arrival after his wife died and he was "penniless, spiritual-less, beat down, man." Now, he'll be living in one of the Anchor's furnished apartments.
Mariners taught him to surrender to his addiction rather than continue fighting it, he said.
"I was in the Marine Corps for four years and I thought I already knew what surrender was. But I didn't find out till I got to Mariners Inn what surrender really means — it means I don't have to fight no more."
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Last one out lock the door: The Twins traded 11 players off their 40-man roster in a span of four days, including Carlos Correa . On Monday, when the first of the trades went down, manager Rocco Baldelli correctly predicted it was going to be a difficult few days. Advertisement 'I'm kind of used to rolling with the punches and trying to find different ways to succeed,' he said. 'Kind of been used to that my entire baseball life. The psychological part of it is not going to affect me very much, because I know we're going to have to turn in a different direction. Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up 'We're going to have to challenge guys and put guys in different spots. I've seen this many times before. It's actually the way you find out about other guys by giving them opportunities.' 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Charles Krupa/Associated Press Seattle sluggers: The Mariners now have the American League leader in RBIs in Cal Raleigh and the former National League leader in Suárez. Through Thursday, they had combined for 78 home runs and 175 RBIs. Suárez, who played for Seattle from 2022-23, had 36 homers at the time of the trade. That's the most for a player in a midseason trade since Mark McGwire had 34 in 1997 when he was traded from the Athletics to the Cardinals on July 31. McGwire hit 24 homers in 51 games for St. Louis. The Mariners also have Julio Rodríguez , Randy Arozarena , J.P. Crawford , and newly acquired Josh Naylor . That's a strong lineup to back an impressive rotation. The Mariners have made the playoffs once since 2001 and have never been to the World Series. Mr. Entertainment: A.J. Preller has run baseball operations for the Padres for 11 years. He's been more entertaining than most of his players with all the deals he makes. Advertisement Preller made five trades on Thursday involving five teams and 22 players. The Padres now have Nelson Cortes , Ramon Laureano , Mason Miller , and Ryan O'Hearn to further torment the Dodgers. San Diego trailed Los Angeles by only three games going into the weekend. Since becoming GM in 2014, Preller has made at least one trade with every team except Arizona. Since 2020, only the Diamondbacks, Cardinals, and Rockies haven't made a deal with Preller. Yaz on the move: Mike Yastrzemski is going to make an unexpected return trip home. The Andover native was traded to the Royals minutes before the deadline, ending a successful seven-year run with the Giants. The Royals will be at Fenway for a three-game series starting Monday. Yastrzemski has played six games at Fenway in his career. He is 6 of 20 with two homers and four RBIs. Related : Yastrzemski will be a free agent after the season. He turns 35 this month, but is a solid platoon bat and an excellent outfielder and should not lack for suitors. Yastrzemski was an Orioles minor leaguer from 2013-18 before he was traded to the Giants and his career flowered. 'San Francisco gave me something I'll never forget — a chance,' Maybe nobody is untradeable: Arizona traded six players as general manager Mike Hazen embraced being a seller after resisting the idea throughout his career. He even managed to find a taker for Jordan Montgomery , who hasn't pitched this year after undergoing Tommy John surgery. Montgomery will be a free agent after the season, but Milwaukee agreed to take him and pay $2 million of his remaining $7.1 million salary this season as part of acquiring righthanded reliever Shelby Miller . Advertisement Diamondbacks owner Ken Kendrick said last winter that signing Montgomery to a two-year, $47.5 million contract was a 'horrible decision' and blamed himself for pushing for it. Long-term ramifications: The Giants traded four players to the Red Sox for Rafael Devers on June 15. One of them was 22-year-old outfielder James Tibbs . Tibbs had a .589 OPS in 29 games for Double A Portland, then was traded to the Dodgers as part of the return for Dustin May . The Giants were 13-24 after trading for Devers. Now the Dodgers have Tibbs. Imagine if Tibbs becomes a good player and haunts the Giants for years while a member of the Dodgers? He kept his promise: Brian Cashman said the Yankees would 'go to town' at the deadline. Cashman then traded for relievers Jake Bird , David Bednar , and Camilo Doval to upgrade the bullpen behind Luke Weaver and Devin Williams . Bednar had 17 saves for the Pirates and Doval 15 for the Giants. Austin Slater was obtained from the White Sox as outfield depth. The Yankees also added Amed Rosario and Ryan McMahon to work as a platoon at third base, and Jose Caballero as infield depth and value as a pinch runner in the postseason. Cashman made nine trades in all. 'We certainly knocked on many doors regarding potential starting pitching. But obviously we weren't able to match up in that category,' he said. The Yankees worked to get Sandy Alcantara from the Marlins, but Miami held on to the righthander, who has a 6.36 ERA and is signed through 2026. Advertisement The Yankees have Luis Gil set to make his season debut on Sunday after recovering from a lat injury. That led to the release of Marcus Stroman . Releasing Stroman also could be viewed as the Yankees having confidence in rookie righthander Cam Schlittler of Walpole, who has made three starts. Yankess GM Brian Cashman kept his promise that his team would 'go to town' at the deadline. Frank Franklin II/Associated Press HIS HERO Yoshida reflects on Ichiro's impact Masataka Yoshida was 7 when Ichiro Suzuki made his debut with the Mariners in 2001. All the Japanese players in the major leagues to that point had been pitchers. For Yoshida and other hitters growing up in Japan, Suzuki was an inspiration. 'He was one of my role models,' Yoshida said. 'He showed you could get to the major leagues and be one of the best players.' So it was with a healthy dose of national pride that Yoshida watched the coverage of Suzuki's Hall of Fame induction last weekend. The first Japanese player granted entry to the Hall delivered a speech that was sentimental, funny, and thankful. 'That speech had the right message to the next generation,' Yoshida told the Globe via a translator. 'He was showing his gratitude to the people who supported him. I thought it was great.' Related : As a young player, Yoshida watched Suzuki and then Hideki Matsui on television, and made it his goal to play at the highest level. 'The reason I'm here is because of [Suzuki] and the other players of that time,' said Yoshida, who followed Suzuki by signing with Orix in the Japanese league. 'They paved the way. I think our job is to pass it on to the next generation.' There have been a record 14 Japanese position players in the majors this season. 'I'm proud of that for sure,' Yoshida said. 'But also of the other Asian players, too. So many players want to come here. That is the goal.' Advertisement It was Ichiro who showed it was possible. Ichiro Suzuki became the first Japanese player granted entry to the Hall of Fame. Seth Wenig/Associated Press A few other observations on the Red Sox: ⋅ Craig Breslow has had some good offseasons. He hit on Tyler O'Neill and Justin Slaten before the 2024 season, and give him full credit for trading Alex Verdugo for Richard Fitts and Greg Weissert . He traded for Garrett Crochet and Carlos Narváez last winter, and signed Aroldis Chapman and Alex Bregman . Great job. The trade deadline work is suspect. Related : Luis Garcia , Danny Jansen , James Paxton , and Lucas Sims were worth minus-0.9 bWAR in 2024. They made the team worse. This season — with clearly defined needs and a supposedly deep farm system — Breslow delivered only Steven Matz and Dustin May . There wasn't a first baseman anywhere to be had, or a better starter? The old expression 'perfect is the enemy of good' seems to apply. Breslow sometimes seems more satisfied about what he didn't do than what he actually did. It's hard not to wonder if more Sox fans would have preferred that Breslow sold high on Chapman, Lucas Giolito , and Justin Wilson instead of making such cautious additions. ⋅ The 2020 draft and the machinations that accompanied it are interesting. The Sox took second baseman Nick Yorke with the 17th pick, a surprise to many draft evaluators who didn't see him going that high. Chaim Bloom signed Yorke to an under-slot deal and used the savings to land high school slugger Blaze Jordan in the third round. Yorke was traded to the Pirates in 2024 for righthander Quinn Priester . Breslow then traded Priester to Milwaukee in April for two prospects who haven't cracked the organization's top 30. Priester is since 10-2 with a 3.27 ERA for the Brewers. Jordan had an .872 OPS over 88 minor league games this season, but is viewed by scouts as a slugger who doesn't handle high velocity well and may not have much of a ceiling. He's back with Bloom, having been traded to the Cardinals for lefthanded reliever Matz, a rental. The other two players the Sox took in that draft, college lefthanders Shane Drohan and Jeremy Wu-Yelland , haven't gotten beyond the minors. Five years later, Matz may be the last chance for the Sox to get some value from that draft, however indirectly. ⋅ For the first time since 2007, the Red Sox faced a righthander named Clemens. Kody Clemens pitched the ninth inning for the Twins on Wednesday and allowed two runs on two hits — home runs by Yoshida and Romy Gonzalez . Clemens hit 86.7 miles per hour with a pitch to Abraham Toro that resulted in a grounder back to the mound. That was an offspeed pitch for Roger Clemens . But Kody has 26 homers and his pops didn't have any in 179 career at-bats. ⋅ The Sox have been involved in 18 walkoffs this season, winning eight of those games. It's the most since the 2014 team had 19 such games, winning nine. Related : ⋅ As was expected, MLB awarded the 2027 All-Star Game to the Cubs. The next opening on the schedule is 2028. Boston, Baltimore, and Toronto are cities known to be contending for the game. This will be the fourth All-Star Game at Wrigley, and the first since 1990. Only Municipal Stadium in Cleveland and old Yankee Stadium in New York have hosted four times. Fenway hosted in 1946, '61, and '99. ⋅ Jackie Jensen's 1958 MVP award Jensen had a .931 OPS that season with 35 homers and a league-leading 122 RBIs. He received nine of a possible 24 first-place votes. ⋅ Glenn 'Goose' Gregson joined the Sox for their three games in Minnesota. Gregson, 75, has been with the team for 24 years as a pitching coach, instructor, and coordinator. Now retired, Gregson is with the team in spring training and occasionally during the season. He lives in Montana, about a two-hour flight from Minneapolis. ETC. Jansen still impressing for Angels The Angels have only a 1.9 percent chance of making the postseason, but they added infielder Oswald Peraza and acquired relievers Andrew Chafin and Luis Garcia from the Nationals. (Yes, that would be the same Luis Garcia who was with the Angels in 2024 and was traded to the Red Sox at the deadline). The Angels were nine games out in the AL West at the time of the trade and 4½ games out in the Wild Card. Kenley Jansen could have returned some decent prospects. He went into the weekend having not allowed an earned run over 17 appearances and 16⅓ innings. He struck out 17 and walked two in that stretch. Take away a six-run meltdown against the Tigers on May 2 and Jansen would have a 1.25 ERA this season. He also has converted 20 of 21 save chances. Jansen, who turns 38 in September, has 467 saves, fourth all-time and 11 away from tying Hall of Famer Lee Smith for third. Jansen's 1,260 strikeouts are the fifth most in history by a reliever. Extra bases The Brewers averaged 31,323 fans last season. It's 31,041 this season. That's not a big drop, but Milwaukee went into the weekend 64-44 and leading the Cubs by a game. The Brewers have the fourth most runs scored in the National League, and are second in the majors in stolen bases. What are the fans waiting for? … Brian Knight retired after 16½ seasons as an umpire because of injuries. He was behind the plate for Jon Lester's no-hitter at Fenway Park on May 19, 2008 … Happy birthday to Kevin Morton , who is 57. The lefthander from Norwalk, Conn., played at Seton Hall from 1987-89. His teammates included Craig Biggio , Dana Brown [now general manager of the Astros], Mo Vaughn , and John Valentin . Morton was a first-round pick of the Red Sox in 1989 and made his major league debut in 1991. He was 6-5 with a 4.59 ERA over 16 games. It proved to be his only season in the majors because of underperformance and injury. Morton stayed in baseball through 1996, spending time in the minors with the Royals, Mets, and Cubs before playing briefly in Mexico and Taiwan. His son, Korey , was an outfielder at UConn from 2021-24 and played a season in the Astros system. Peter Abraham can be reached at
