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For Immediate Release Tuesday, November 5, 2013

SEATTLE MARINERS NAME LLOYD MCCLENDON MANAGER

34-Year Professional Baseball Veteran Named 16th Fulltime Manager in Club History
SEATTLE, Wash. -- Seattle Mariners Executive Vice President & General Manager of Baseball Operations Jack Zduriencik announced today that Lloyd McClendon has been named as the Seattle Mariners new manager. McClendon th is the 16 fulltime skipper in Mariners history. Lloyd is a bright and articulate guy, Zduriencik said. He has Major League managerial experience and has served in a vital capacity in Detroit under one of the games best managers. He is a tireless worker and is very respected by the players with whom he has worked. We look forward to Lloyd embracing our players as we move the Mariners forward. McClendon, 54, was manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates for five seasons (2001-2005) and has spent the past eight seasons as a coach for the Detroit Tigers, the last seven as hitting coach. I am extremely excited about the opportunity to manage the Seattle Mariners, McClendon said. Seattle has a tremendous group of talented players and the fans and city should be excited about the clubs future. Im looking for this group to take a big step forward. McClendon is a veteran of 34 years in professional baseball as a player, coach, minor league manager, and MLB manager. He has spent the past seven years (2007-2013) as the Detroit Tigers hitting coach after originally joining Jim Leylands Tiger coaching staff in 2006 as the bullpen coach. The Tigers led all of baseball in 2013 with a .283 batting average, and were second in the Majors in runs scored (796) as the team advanced to the American League Championship Series. The Tigers won Central Division Titles and advanced to the post-season in each of the past three seasons, including an AL Championship in 2012. Prior to joining the Tigers, McClendon was the manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates for five seasons. He compiled a 336-446 (.430) mark from 2001 through the first 136 games of the 2005 season. He served as a coach for the National League at the All-Star Game in 2003 at Chicagos US Cellular Field. Following his playing career, McClendon began his coaching career in 1996 as the Pirates roving minor league hitting instructor. He joined the Pirates big league staff as hitting coach in 1997, a position he held until being promoted to manager in 2001. McClendon led Lancaster (California Fall League) to a league title following the 1999 season, and was managing Peoria in the Arizona Fall League following the 2000 season when he was named manager of the Pirates.
McClendons Record as Manager
YEAR 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005
(1) (2)

CLUB Lancaster (1) Peoria (2) PITTSBURGH PITTSBURGH PITTSBURGH PITTSBURGH PITTSBURGH

LG Cal Fall Lg. AZ Fall Lg. NL NL NL NL NL

W 26 13 62 72 75 72 55 336

L 16 12 100 89 87 89 81 446

PCT. .619 .520 .383 .447 .463 .447 .404 .430

FINISH 1st --6th 4th 4th 5th 6th

ML TOTALS

Defeated San Bernardino 2-1 to win Cal League Fall Championship. Resigned as manager on Nov. 1, after being named Pirates manager.

McClendons Managing and Coaching Career

2007-2013 2006 2001-2005 1997-2000 1996 DETROIT DETROIT PITTSBURGH PITTSBURGH Pittsburgh AL AL NL NL NL Hitting Coach Bullpen Coach Manager Hitting Coach MiLB Hitting Coordinator

Lloyd had a 16-year professional playing career (1980-1995). He was th selected by the New York Mets in the 8 round of the 1980 Draft. He played in the Majors with Cincinnati (1987-88), the Chicago Cubs (1989-90) and Pittsburgh (1990-94). He was a member of four clubs that won a division title with the Cubs in 1989 and the Pirates from 1990-92. He hit .625 (10-for-16) in 11 games during his three appearances in the National League Championship Series. McClendon appeared at catcher (50 games, 17 starts), first base (101 G, 62 GS), third base (9 G, 3 GS), left field (138 G, 98 GS) and right field (130 G, 102 GS) in his big league career, and appeared in post-season games at catcher, first base, left field and right field in the NLCS. In addition, he appeared in 224 regular-season games as a pinch-hitter. McClendon played baseball at Valparaiso University after graduating from Roosevelt High School in Indiana in 1977, where he was an All-State selection in baseball. He participated in the 1971 Little League World Series where he was nicknamed Legendary Lloyd after hitting five home runs in five swings and drawing five intentional walks for his Gary, IN, team. As a pitcher in the same series, he struck out 12 batters in 8.0 innings of the championship game against Tainan City, Taiwan. He was enshrined in the Peter J. McGovern Little League Museums Hall of Excellence in Williamsport, PA, on Aug. 26, 2006. McClendon and his wife, Ingrid, reside in Chesterton, Indiana. They have two adult children: daughter Schenell and son th Bo. Bo was selected by Detroit in the 39 round of the 2010 Draft. For more information, please contact the Seattle Mariners baseball information department at (206) 346-4000. More information on Seattles roster is also available online at www.mariners.com. All Mariners news releases, game notes, statistics and multimedia files are also available by visiting the Mariners Virtual Press Box at www.MarinersMedia.com. -- McClendons Career Stats & All-Time Mariners Managers on Page 2

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McCLENDONs PLAYING RECORD

CLUB Kingsport Little Falls 1981 Lynchburg 1982 Lynchburg 1983 Waterbury 1984 Vermont Wichita 1985 Denver 1986 Denver 1987 Nashville CINCINNATI 1988 Nashville CINCINNATI 1989 Iowa CHICAGO-NL 1990 Iowa CHICAGO-NL PITTSBURGH 1991 PITTSBURGH 1992 PITTSBURGH 1993 PITTSBURGH 1994 PITTSBURGH 1995 Buffalo Minor Lg Totals ML Totals YEAR 1980 AVG .326 .274 .251 .273 .263 .277 .296 .277 .259 .286 .208 .143 .219 .321 .286 .286 .159 .333 .288 .253 .221 .239 .278 .272 .244 G 14 40 103 108 123 60 48 115 132 26 45 2 72 34 92 25 49 4 85 84 88 51 37 866 570 AB R 46 7 117 25 363 55 384 61 434 58 202 36 152 28 379 57 433 75 84 11 72 8 7 0 137 9 109 18 259 47 91 14 107 5 3 1 163 24 190 26 181 21 92 9 108 19 2909 464 1204 150 H 15 32 91 105 114 56 45 105 112 24 15 1 30 35 74 26 17 1 47 48 40 22 30 791 294 TB 20 52 136 186 182 93 78 181 216 39 26 1 43 57 124 34 23 4 75 67 59 38 51 1326 459 2B 2 9 12 25 19 16 13 18 30 6 5 0 4 10 12 2 3 0 7 8 11 4 6 168 54 3B 0 1 6 1 2 0 1 5 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 17 3 HR 1 3 7 18 15 7 6 16 *24 3 2 0 3 4 12 2 1 1 7 3 2 4 5 111 35 RBI 9 20 57 78 57 27 28 79 88 14 13 0 14 13 40 10 10 2 24 20 19 12 19 499 154 SH 0 0 3 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 6 4 SF 0 1 5 3 1 1 1 3 4 2 1 0 2 2 7 1 1 0 1 0 3 2 0 23 16 HB 0 2 7 2 5 2 0 3 2 2 0 0 2 1 1 2 0 0 2 2 0 1 2 29 8 BB 5 32 60 55 42 28 21 51 70 17 4 1 15 21 37 8 14 0 18 28 23 4 20 431 143 SO 7 20 68 65 64 28 33 56 75 15 15 1 22 19 31 19 21 1 23 24 17 11 20 490 165 SB CS SLG 0 0 .435 2 1 .444 3 0 .375 4 3 .484 4 6 .419 2 2 .460 2 0 .513 4 4 .478 2 4 .499 1 1 .464 1 0 .361 0 0 .143 4 0 .314 4 0 .523 6 4 .479 3 1 .374 1 0 .215 0 0 1.333 2 1 .460 1 3 .353 0 3 .326 0 1 .413 0 0 .472 31 24 .456 15 12 .381 OBP .392 .434 .363 .365 .334 .369 .379 .365 .361 .410 .247 .250 .301 .427 .368 .353 .254 .333 .366 .350 .306 .278 .400 .369 .325

League Championship Series

YEAR CLUB, OPP 1989 CHC vs. SF 1991 PIT vs. ATL 1992 PIT vs. ATL LCS Totals AVG .667 .000 .727 .625 G 3 3 5 11 AB 3 2 11 16 R 0 0 4 4 H 2 0 8 10 TB 2 0 13 15 2B 0 0 2 2 3B 0 0 0 0 HR 0 0 1 1 RBI 0 0 4 4 SH 0 0 0 0 SF 0 0 1 1 HB 0 0 0 0 BB 1 1 4 6 SO 0 0 1 1 SB CS SLG 0 0 .667 0 0 .000 0 0 1.182 0 0 .938 OBP .750 .333 .750 .696

MARINERS ALL-TIME MANAGERIAL MARKS

Manager Darrell Johnson Maury Wills Rene Lachemann Del Crandall Chuck Cottier Marty Martinez * Dick Williams Jim Snyder * Jim Lefebvre Bill Plummer Lou Piniella Bob Melvin Mike Hargrove John McLaren Jim Riggleman Don Wakamatsu Daren Brown * Eric Wedge Lloyd McClendon Years 1977-8/3/1980 8/4/1980-5/5/1981 5/6/1981-6/24/1983 6/25/1983-8/31/1984 9/1/1984-5/7/1986 5/8/1986 5/9/1986-6/5/1988 6/6/1988-10/2/1988 1989-91 1992 1993-2002 2003-2004 2005-7/1/2007 7/2/2007-6/19/2008 6/20/2008-9/28/2008 2009-8/8/10 8/9/2010-10/3/2010 2011-2013 2014W-L 226-362 26-56 140-180 93-131 98-119 0-1 159-192 45-60 233-253 64-98 840-711 156-168 192-210 68-88 36-54 127-147 19-31 213-273 -Pct. .384 .317 .438 .415 .452 .000 .453 .429 .479 .395 .542 .481 .478 .436 .400 .464 .380 .438 --

* interim manager

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