Seattle — Collectively, the 2022 season has been a failure. That’s an unassailable truth. A Tigers team that was expected to at least stay near enough to .500 to keep things intriguing in the final months was wracked by injury and underperformance and fell out of contention before the summer even got hot.
But it wasn’t all bad. There were some encouraging points of light that shined through the gloom.
u25b6 Akil Baddoo: You can pooh-pooh September performances all you want, but Baddoo’s resurgence has lifted some weight off the Tigers (and himself) going into the offseason.