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For the Mariners’ offense, every night is 90’s night

Seemingly out of nowhere, the Mariners have recreated one of the best offenses in team history, and it's the one that we never would have expected to work at Safeco Field.

Any longtime fan of the Mariners can probably intuit that the 2016 team is hitting more home runs than any Mariner team in the Safeco Field Era. That instinct is very correct. Since Safeco Field opened the most home runs any Mariner team has hit was the 198 walloped by last year’s Jack Zduriencik fever dream.

This almost team wide power surge has led to the Mariners having a wRC+ of 112, third in MLB, the sixth highest wOBA (.