With the season's first two months a distant memory, it's time for to re-examine the best way to put together this roster.
After beginning the month at 30-21, the Mariners have gone 8-17 in June, plummeted out of the AL West lead, both Wild Cards, and find themselves in third place in their division. This kind of free fall is never as simple as one failing player, one broken roster construction concept, or a single trend.
The Mariners’ June has been the result of things both within, and without management’s control. Injuries to Wade Miley, Felix Hernandez, Leonys Martin, Ketel Marte, Taijuan Walker, and Tony Zych are, until baseball breaks through the injury-science barrier in earnest, largely unavoidable, and can be termed something like bad luck.