"It isn't cast in stone just yet, but Mariners manager Don Wakamatsu said he is leaning toward using switch-hitter Milton Bradley as the cleanup hitter.

"We're looking that way," Wakamatsu said Sunday during a morning session with the media. "I don't want to pin myself down, but I like [Casey] Kotchman in the three-hole against right-handers and we'll look at [Franklin] Gutierrez in there against lefties."

Wakamatsu said he wants to have as many contact hitters behind Ichiro Suzuki and Chone Figgins as possible.

"I like what the three spot can bring us," Wakamatsu said. "They give you good at-bats, see a lot of pitches and would move Ichi and Figgy. That's what I like and that's the way we are setting it up right now." "