The Seattle Mariners spent much of their offseason offloading veteran players for younger ones, and publicly proclaiming that they’re unlikely to be a winning team for at least a season.
Question is – what is a step-back season supposed to mean for the Mariners’ few players still around who don’t qualify as young prospects?
Kyle Seager is now 31 years old. In April, Dee Gordon will turn 31 and Felix Hernandez will be 33. Jay Bruce is 31 and Edwin Encarnacion is 36.
Those players have 15 All-Star appearances between them, but each are coming off varying degrees of regression.