OUT OF RIGHT FIELD

SEATTLE – We have the sports. NFL, MLB, NHL, Big Ten football and basketball, MLS, WNBA, NWSL – they’re all here.

SEATTLE – Don’t do it, he told them. Don’t trade away our young starting pitchers.

Oct. 4—It would be a mistake for the Mariners to assess the final five weeks of season and conclude that their offensive issues have been solved. Yes, the offense made strides under Dan Wilson and Edgar Martinez, and fairly significant ones. And, yes, there's reasonable optimism within the organization that some of the changes over the final 34 games can carry over into 2025. Even with that, ...

It has been several days since this Mariners season came to another disappointing end, and relief doesn’t appear to be on its way. Mathematics tricked fans into thinking Seattle was in contention through the end of September, but this season was lost weeks ago.

A year ago, Seattle Mariners chairman John Stanton promised that player payroll would increase for the 2024 season. And it did … on the margins.

SEATTLE – Their unique bond never wavered despite different personalities.

SEATTLE – The formality of a planned news conference from the interview room of T-Mobile Park with a dais, microphones and Mariners’ logo backdrop was replaced by a wooden bench in the first-base dugout on a chilly Saturday afternoon before the penultimate game of the regular season with a handful of media members surrounding him.

SEATTLE – This much can be said about the Seattle Mariners as they play out the final series of the 2024 season – a three-game series with a team that is soon to be formerly known as the Oakland A’s – they are playing with the effort of a team still fighting to make the playoffs.

SEATTLE – A team that once led the division by 10 games and was eliminated from postseason consideration 24 hours earlier welcomed a team that had just said goodbye to its home of 59 seasons for the final three games without consequence to end the 2024 season.

SEATTLE – The impossible dream ended with the Seattle Mariners watching helplessly at home and hopelessly waiting for a miracle that was never realized.

SEATTLE – Those standings you’re looking at are nothing more than freshwater ponds in the Sahara.