Carlos Santana has been the step in the Mariners’ groove

You’re my reason for reasonWhen the Mariners (re)acquired Carlos Santana on June 27, we had no complaints, but said he wouldn’t “be setting anyone’s eyebrows or undergarments alight.” A month later, my undergarments beg to differ. After just four weeks on the roster, I now can’t imagine a world where Carlos Santana doesn’t play for the Mariners. You can’t argue with results: thanks in no small part to his five home runs (one more than he hit in twice as many PAs as a Royal this season!), the Mariners are 19-4 since he joined the team.

Perhaps we should have known Santana was born to be a Mariner. After all, he was born on the same day as King Félix (all hail the eighth of April), so of…