Tyler O’Neill was this year’s player of the year, not just by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America’s (BBWAA) standards or the Mariners standards, but by any baseball watching fans standards.
Winning award after award, and a double-AA league championship, O’Neill did it all. It seems he wasn’t ready to let up just yet during this past months Arizona Fall League season.
His three home runs, fourteen RBI, five doubles and .292 batting average was a strong offensive force. On the defensive side of the ball, O’Neill surrendered his body as he laid out to make many diving grabs and leaping catches to stop the competition.