The Seattle Mariners' offense mostly ran on the energy of Cal Raleigh and Julio Rodríguez in 2025. The former achieved a historic 60-homer season and the latter also made history with a 30-30 campaign, and it was all in service of the franchise's best offensive season in nearly a decade.
Yet as unsurprising as it is that Raleigh and Rodríguez were revealed — exclusively on FanSided, we might add — as Silver Slugger finalists for the American League, the third Mariner to get a nod only recently got the attention he already deserved: Jorge Polanco.
After what he did in the ALDS and ALCS, it's out there now that Polanco has a clutch gene like few hitters in Major League Baseball today.