Through these early days of the 2019 baseball season the Seattle Mariners are an astonishing 6-1, leading the rest of MLB by 2 wins. We thought the offense would be good, and it has delivered with a staggering 48 runs scored, largely on the backs of 15 home runs. We thought the bullpen would be shaky, and have they ever delivered on that promise. The late innings this season promise to stretch interminably, but we can be assured they will not be boring.
The Mariners feature a power hitting offense combined with a bobble-y defense and an antacid-selling bullpen, a combination we haven’t seen so starkly since those teams in the mid to late 90s.