Editing Seattle Mariners (section)

=== Potential retired numbers ===
Currently, two other players have definitively met the requirements to have their number retired but not yet had the team retire or announce its plans to retire their numbers, Randy Johnson and [[Adrián Beltré]].

Johnson played 10 seasons with the Mariners, from 1989 until mid-1998, and was elected to the Hall of Fame in 2015. His number '''51''' was withheld until 2001, when it was issued to [[Ichiro Suzuki]] upon his request. Suzuki wore that number for his entire career in [[Nippon Professional Baseball|Japan]]. No other player wore the number following Suzuki's 2012 trade to the Yankees. Suzuki once again wore number 51 when he rejoined the Mariners in 2018 until he retired the following year.

[[Adrián Beltré|Beltré]], a Mariner for five seasons (2005–2009), was elected to the Hall of Fame in 2024. He wore number '''5''' in 2005, then number '''29''' during his last four years in Seattle. Both numbers have been reissued several times since Beltré left Seattle, with [[Cal Raleigh]] currently wearing number 29 and [[Cade Marlowe]] most recently wearing number 5.<ref>{{Cite web |title=2025 Seattle Mariners Roster (40-man) |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/SEA/2025-roster.shtml |website=Baseball-Reference.com}}</ref><ref name=":0" /> The Mariners have not indicated any plans to retire Beltré's number.

[[Lou Piniella]]'s number '''14''' was not given to any uniformed personnel after his 2002 departure until it was issued to third base coach [[Manny Acta]] in 2016. [[Lou Piniella#Hall of Fame consideration|Piniella has been on the Hall of Fame ballot]] three times (2016, 2018, and 2023), and he was one vote short in the latter two ballots from being inducted.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ackert |first=Kristie |date=December 9, 2018 |title=George Steinbrenner, Lou Piniella both fall short in Hall of Fame bids |url=https://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/yankees/ny-sports-steinbrenner-rejected-hall-of-fame-20181209-story.html |access-date=July 26, 2021 |website=New York Daily News}}</ref>

The Mariners have not reissued number '''19''' since [[Jay Buhner]] left the team after 2001.<ref name=":0" />

Number '''00''' is presumed off-limits, because the [[Mariner Moose]] has worn it<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kramer |first=Daniel |date=January 28, 2021 |title=The backstory of the Mariner Moose |url=https://www.mlb.com/news/mariners-moose-mascot-backstory |access-date=2025-03-06 |website=MLB.com |language=en}}</ref> since 1997. Outfielder [[Jeffrey Leonard]] was the only Mariners player to wear 00, in 1989 and 1990.<ref name=":0" /> From 1990 to 1996, the Moose wore the last two digits of the year of the current year. The Moose switched to 00 after pitcher [[Mac Suzuki]] also wore the number 96 in 1996.<ref>{{Cite web |last=LaRue |first=Larry |date=February 18, 1997 |title=Spring Training Report |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/739822167/?match=1&clipping_id=170354563 |access-date=2025-04-15 |publisher=The News Tribune |page=23 |language=en |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Mac Suzuki's first big league strikeout {{!}} 07/07/1996 |url=https://www.mlb.com/mariners/video/mac-suzuki-s-first-big-league-k |access-date=2025-04-15 |website=MLB.com |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=October 1, 1997 |title=This year, it's 'Raise the Roof' |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-news-tribune-this-year-its-raise/170354657/ |work=The News Tribune |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>