The 2019 baseball season has been an exercise in misery for Mariners fans, but as the team sinks lower and lower, the possibility of getting a true blue-chip draft pick—the kind the Mariners had to trade Edwin Díaz in order to get, the kind the Mariners haven’t had since the dark days of the early 2010s—shines ever more brightly. As of this writing, the Mariners remain in the sixth draft position, although after being swept by the Angels this past weekend, they’ve managed to cut the Marlins’ hold on the fifth pick down to five games, having left the .
2020 Mariners draft preview: 3B/UTIL Austin Martin
