PEORIA, Ariz. -- The Mariners annually produce some of the best promotional commercials in Major League Baseball, and this year's batch hit a home run -- literally with a spot featuring Nelson Cruz's windshield-shattering power, and figuratively with the return of Edgar Martinez's light bat.
Longtime Mariners fans will certainly get a chuckle from the reappearance of Martinez, now in his first full season as the club's hitting coach, complete with a throwback reference to his famous "light bat" commercials that were actually part of a local Seattle advertising series in the 1990s.
Four Mariners commercials were released Wednesday, as well as an outtakes cut from the filming that was done early in Spring Training.