It may be the season of the step back, but it’s not the season of the give up.
Regardless of the front office’s plan for the roster, the payroll, the players who have been traded and the prospects who will eventually take their place, the current players on the Mariners’ 25-man roster — the ones who ran onto the field in their gleaming white uniforms on the emerald grass of the newly named T-Mobile Park — have no concern for “the view from 10,000 feet” as general manager Jerry Dipoto likes to say.
No, they are there between the lines each day and will compete to win each time they step on the field, regardless of what is expected of them.