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Embed from Getty Images When Cole Young rolled one over weakly to second for a game-ending double play on Tuesday, a grim reality that had been all but assured for weeks became official: the 2026 Mariners are a losing team. Seattle’s 2-1 loss to the Angels dropped
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Embed from Getty Images The 2026 Mariners are one of - if not the - most disappointing teams in franchise history. With the 2025 version being just a few innings away from its first World Series berth, expectations were rightfully sky-high this year. And yet the team has completely face planted.
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Highlighted by a bullpen that has been running on fumes for most of the second half of the season, Emerald City Spectrum reporter Callaghan Bluechel goes over how the lack of roster depth and overall indecision led the 2026 Seattle Mariners season ending in dreary fashion, likely to finish with
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Embed from Getty Images For years, the Mariners have relied on an ability to churn out relievers for pennies on the dollar, filling out a bullpen with just enough arms that are viable in a given year for the team to manage the innings required of a strong starting staff.
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Embed from Getty Images While not mathematically eliminated from the playoffs, the Mariners are on the edge of despair. Needing to win almost every game from here on out, Seattle got off to a great start with a 19-1 smackdown against the Athletics For an offense that has been
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Embed from Getty Images At least the Mariners can play spoiler. That is hardly where anyone on the team wanted them to end up when the season began. But the autopsy of the year - where three guys the Szymborski Projection System (ZiPS) had putting up a combined 15.2 FanGraphs
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Embed from Getty Images For the first time in a half decade, September baseball in Seattle does not mean the tension of a playoff chase. Those chases were vain and doomed more often than not, but the exhilaration and anticipation of the first month of fall is not something that
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Embed from Getty Images Ask not for whom the bell tolls. Friday saw the Mariners place one more stone on their own immurement, falling to 66-76 and seven games back of the division. In truth, they had long sealed themselves off from any reasonable chance of wriggling themselves out
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The MLB regular season is heading into a sprint to the finish. There are roughly four weeks left until the playoff picture is set. The Seattle Mariners still have a chance to be in the dance, though those hopes are fading with each loss, including a series-opening defeat at
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Heading into the 2026 season, the Seattle Mariners were the odds-on favorite to represent the American League in the World Series. The Mariners have drastically underperformed those expectations, however, limping to the final month of the season barely clinging to playoff life. Many fans want to clean house. Since
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Still eight games under .500, Randy Arozarena and the Seattle Mariners somehow have plenty of life left in the dreadful AL West with one month to play after taking two out of three from the Red Sox in Boston. Emerald City Spectrum writer Nick Lee breaks down the Mariners'
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[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="4832"] Seattle Mariners designated hitter Lazaro Montes (99) reacts as he runs the bases after hitting a home run during the fifth inning against the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park. Mandatory Credit: Eric Canha-Imagn Images [https://www.