"Carlos Guillen will get one more crack with the Mariners eight years after the team jump-started his career by trading him away.

At age 36, the three-time All-Star infielder agreed to a minor-league deal with the Mariners on Wednesday that will pay him a base salary of $1 million if he makes the club out of spring training and incentive bonuses based on plate appearances. The Mariners hope to use Guillen — who will wear the same No. 8 he previously did with Seattle — in a corner infield utility role, similar to what Adam Kennedy provided the squad last season.

Guillen became a cornerstone with the Detroit Tigers after a January 2004 trade to Motown for infielders Ramon Santiago and Juan Gonzalez. He hit .318 with 20 homers and 97 runs batted in for Detroit that year, the career breakout he'd been looking for after parts of five mostly uneventful seasons with Seattle."