Mmm-mmmm, it’s that first tasty morsel of the baseball season. Served up hot on a chilly (and now snowy!) Friday afternoon here in Seattle. We fans now have new, fresh, and exciting Mariners baseball things to over-analyze and fret about! Hell yes.
As is the custom, the Mariners and Padres opened their respective Cactus League campaigns against one another in their shared home stadium in Peoria. Padres got the home start with the Mariners as the road team. Let’s get into the “haha there’s still almost a week left in February” hot desert baseball action!