The Mariners could theoretically salvage the month of May from being a total installment of Disasterpiece Theatre, and are off to a good start following last night’s narrow win over the Athletics, but let’s be honest: the team has been playing well below expectations over this month. Doing some good ol-fashioned WPA (Win Probability Added) back-of-napkin math, I looked at the last 19 losses incurred by the Mariners—dating from the end of that heady home series and sweep of the Royals—to try to get at a broad sense of where, exactly, the team is underperforming, and what has been done about it and is yet to be done about it.
Analyzing who is most at fault over the Mariners’ recent skid
