Hello and welcome back to FanPost Friday. The MLB trade deadline has come and gone and the Mariners neither bought-in significantly nor softly sold much of anything besides Paul Sewald for three incredibly mid players. What the Mariners believe they did, which Kate wrote about in her excellent deadline wrap-up piece, was not disrupt the 2023 team and fill in a few holes for the 2024 roster.
So, uninterrupted 2023 Mariners team, your purgatorial state is over. What’s next? As stated in the title and dek of this post, Tom Berenger said it best in “Major League.