It’s not quite the end of awards season yet, as Baseball America recently honored the Mariners with their Organization of the Year award. BA has been awarding Organization of the Year since 1982; this is the first time the Mariners have won. The Rays won last year and in 2019, and the Dodgers won in 2020 and 2017. You’ll notice that there’s not a lot of overlap between teams that win the World Series and Organization of the Year; that’s because the voting criteria, per BA, is not based only on big-league success, but rather on a three-pronged rating system: current MLB success; future sustainability of the club (prospects, development); and stability (personnel, ownership, the club’s future in its city, etc).
Baseball America names Seattle Mariners as Organization of the Year
