The Tacoma Rainiers are still the Seattle Mariners’ Triple-A affiliate after a four-year contract agreement was announced Thursday morning.
Could you image the Rainiers housing prospects for some other major league team? Sure, those prospects would be ranked higher than those with the Mariners, who are widely considered to have the least overall depth and top-end prospect talent of any organization, but Seattle and Tacoma are intertwined when it comes to baseball.
So the Rainiers, who have been the Mariners’ top farm affiliate since 1995, will remain part of the Mariners’ organization through the 2022 season.