Last year’s Seattle Mariners were one of the more fascinating teams in baseball.
After a few weeks, they were good when they had no reason to be. Then a few months later, they were still good, when they still had no reason to be. And then a few months after that, the story still hadn’t changed.
The 2018 Mariners finished with 16 more wins than losses, despite allowing 34 more runs than they scored.
Sure, they missed the playoffs - a casualty of the two American League wild card teams remarkably combining for 197 wins, but they made noise with their 87-73 record.