The Seattle Mariners have fallen short of the playoffs for the last 18 years.
Since Executive VP and GM Jerry Dipoto took over in 2015, however, they’ve finished with winning records in 2016 and 2018, where they went 89-73 and fell just eight games short of a Wild Card spot.
There are teams that win 89 games in a season that would consider building more around their core, seeing it as a sign of improvement especially following a 2017 campaign in which Seattle won 78 games.
It’s certainly a respectable record to finish with considering they play 162 games per season.