SAN DIEGO — Major League Baseball released its 2019 schedules for the Cactus and Grapefruit Leagues on Wednesday afternoon.
The Mariners also released an update on their spring training plans, but didn’t announce report dates for pitchers and catchers and position players. Those dates are being finalized. Because the team is traveling to Japan in mid-March to open the 2019 regular season, there will be a slightly different set-up.
That Japan trip includes a pair of exhibition games tentatively set for March 17-18 vs. teams from the Nippon Professional Baseball league followed by the two regular season games in Tokyo vs.