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Arrivals: 2B Bret Boone, RHP Jeff Nelson, OF Ichiro Suzuki.
Departures: LF Rickey Henderson, OF Raul Ibanez, RHP Jose Mesa, C Joe Oliver, SS Alex Rodriguez, RHP Frankie Rodriguez.
Source of strength: The team is built around pitching, and though the rotation isn't overpowering, it will keep games close. If the Mariners have a lead after six, they can bring in the kind of arms that make comebacks hard: RHPs Jose Paniagua and Jeff Nelson and LHP Arthur Rhodes, who are power pitchers, and then RHP Kazuhiro Sasaki,...
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