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The Seattle Mariners have tried several times to fill in the right-handed platoon niche over the first half of the 2020s - with decidedly limited success. Mitch Garver, who had a .344/.500/.438 slash (batting average/on-base percentage/slugging percentage) and (160 OPS+, where 100 is league average)
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[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="1686"] Seattle Mariners first baseman Josh Naylor (12) hits a RBI single in the first inning against the Toronto Blue Jays during game seven of the ALCS round for the 2025 MLB playoffs at Rogers Centre. Mandatory Credit: Nick
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Embed from Getty Images MLB free agency officially begins on Nov. 6, 2025, and as with all teams in the sport, the M’s have several players testing the waters of free agency before the 2026 season. Some aren’t likely to return; at least one other is a core
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Embed from Getty Images TORONTO, Canada — The Mariners’ Game 1 victory against the Blue Jays was described as a “steal” by much of the North American continent, with the Mariners exhausted from a five-hour, 15-inning marathon in Game 5 of the ALDS. Game 2, on the other hand,
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Embed from Getty Images When there are 15 innings, 15 pitchers, and just about 15 missed chances to win spread across two teams in a winner-take-all postseason game, there are bound to be managerial decisions that have a great impact. Towards the end of the battle, both teams
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Embed from Getty Images SEATTLE, Wash. — Such a game has not been played in the Third Millennium. The emotional firestorm the city of Seattle went through—from hope to dread to exhaustion to resignation to ecstasy and then all five simultaneously—was a collective mental conflagration that is perhaps indescribable,
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Embed from Getty Images DETROIT, Mich. — For the second time in a week, the Seattle Mariners have to save their season against the best pitcher in the American League. This time, it will be a true elimination game, a winner-take-all Game 5 in T-Mobile Park. It seemed
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Embed from Getty Images SEATTLE, Wash. — Carpe diem! Those are Horace’s most famous words. Literally taken, the phrase means “harvest the day”, but seize the moment is perhaps a better translation. Those are the words, in English, that adorn a banner above the left field bleachers in T-Mobile
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Embed from Getty Images Words can hardly capture the seeming strangeness of the moment. Summer has turned to fall, and yet the Seattle Mariners are sitting pretty in the AL West. The M’s are fresh off the biggest sweep of the season against none other than the Houston Astros,
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Embed from Getty Images HOUSTON, Texas — With one catch in Houston, Víctor Robles etched his name in the wall of Mariners who will never be forgotten. Daikin Park is nothing if not the graveyard of pretenders. Memories of late-inning Astros comebacks, specters of the Evil Empire’s umbral victories:
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Embed from Getty Images KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The natural order of the world has perhaps reasserted itself, pending of course this weekend’s results. The Houston Astros are back on top in the AL West, having been undefeated after briefly losing their first-place spot on Sunday. Oddly enough, the
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Embed from Getty Images SEATTLE, Wash. — Seven wins in a row. A much-needed quality start from Luis Castillo combined with the barest of margins on offense to produce Seattle’s seventh straight victory, yet in a dog-eat-dog chase for the playoffs—where three teams enter and only