October baseball has a way of exposing what a team actually believes. Do you trust your process when the crowd gets loud, or do you chase a feeling? The Mariners have been quietly answering that question with Eduard Bazardo. He isn’t packaged like a star (no flames on the scoreboard, no 101 on the gun), but he keeps showing up in the innings that decide seasons.
Here’s the tell, and it’s why the national audience is catching up: he shrinks games without drama. Get to strike one, show the same tunnel twice, then move the plate by two inches.