Let’s take the James Paxton approach.
One week remains before the Mariners open the 2018 regular season at Safeco Field against the Indians so it’s time to do what Paxton says he’s doing – dialing in and ramping it up.
Over the next few days we’ll project what the Mariners’ Opening Day 25-man roster will look like. But before we get into it, I enlisted some help for this series from my esteemed predecessor on this beat, recently retired Bob Dutton. He’s got more than 30 years of ballwriting to his record, including the past four seasons covering the Mariners.