PEORIA, Ariz. — Kyle Seager has seen them all fall by the wayside, slowly but surely, the prospects with whom he rose through the Mariners’ farm system only to succumb to various forms of attrition.
Seager rattles off the names —Trayvon Robinson, Carlos Triunfel, Alex Liddi, Nick Franklin and more. I threw in Dustin Ackley and Justin Smoak.
“The list is quite long,’’ he mused. “Basically from that list, the only one that was in the minors with me and is still here is James Paxton.”
Seager hasn’t just survived, however; he’s thrived, and now only Felix Hernandez has more seniority on the Mariners.