Time is the key to so many things - a well-groomed garden, healing heartbreak, properly cooked ribs. It’s what is integral in the development of baseball players as well. September call-ups will change for good next year, and after several years of mere bullpen depth and bench bats, the Mariners have filled their roster this week with seeds of the future. But watching those players these final weeks, and the next couple years, is an exercise in patience and process over immediate returns. The fact that many of the features of this recap needed no alterations when Seattle launched their late comeback attests to that.
Growing pains reward the Seattle Mariners
