Well, here we go. The M’s come into 2022 a much better team and with much higher expectations. The playoffs include ten teams per league, making the task of ending the longest playoff drought easier. It is, thankfully, time to stop talking about great prospects, and time to start watching them progress in MLB.
The M’s got a huge boost to their rotation when they signed the defending AL Cy Young award winner in Robbie Ray. His fastball/slider mix is deadly, and he’s among the game’s best strikeout pitchers. He’s given up hard contact throughout his career, including an abysmal 2020, but his stuff allows him to avoid that problem by missing bats altogether.