ADDITIONAL NOTE 10:40 a.m.: The Mariners just announced the Michael Saunders cut, with him assigned to AAA. Pitchers Mike Koplove and Levale Speigner have been assigned to minor league camp, while Mike Carp -- survives! He's still here...for now. That's 41 players still in camp.

They haven't made any announcements yet, but it looks like Michael Saunders is on his way to minor league camp along with a host of others this morning. No official word on new cuts, but Saunders was in the clubhouse this morning exchanging handshakes with a number of teammates.

Expect a number of others to be on their way as well. There are still a bunch of minor league pitching types left in camp. You also have Mike Carp still here and he won't make a team that is still unlikely to keep a guy in Mike Sweeney who is hitting about .750 down here.

Saunders being demoted should surprise nobody. His chances of making the team all but died when the Mariners acquired Milton Bradley. The Mariners were not going to employ Saunders as a fourth outfielder. He was either going to make the team as a starter or be sent back to Class AAA -- since he has minor league options left.

Once Ryan Langerhans was re-signed and Eric Byrnes picked up as a free-agent, it became clear that Saunders was going to need a superhuman spring to make the club. He didn't and he won't.

One interesting thing to remember about Saunders, which you may have noted on that video we posted a few weeks ago (seen above) about the changes to Seattle's strength and conditioning program. In the video, Dr. Marcus Elliott points to some paperwork on Saunders and states that he has more vertical (or, lateral) force than horizontal force. The theory Elliott has, and which the Mariners are paying big bucks to implement over the next three years, is that athletes with horizontal power -- like Dustin Ackley -- have a better chance to maximize their potential.

With vertical power, Elliott adds, even big, strong hitters tend to have low home run totals because they are not maximizing the force they get on their swing and driving balls properly. So, the Mariners are in the process of training their hitters to get more horizontal force on their swings.

It's something the Mariners no doubt want Saunders to improve upon this year. He'll now get that chance in AAA.

We'll be starting Geoff Baker Live! at 7 p.m. Pacific time tonight so we don't interfere with anyone watching the Huskies play Marquette in the NCAA Tournament. There's a replay of last night's show down below.

If you missed the final few minutes of last night's show, we had a good conversation with Augusto Cardenas of Diario Panorama in Venezuela, the reporter who broke the Erik Bedard-Adam Jones trade story back in January 2008. You may remember that Jones initially denied telling Cardenas he'd been traded, but then a tape recording of the interview revealed that Jones had, in fact, spilled the beans early. Two-week circus ensued. A fun, relatively short clip if you want to listen. If you want the full show, that's right below.