Cobb County, Georgia; Phoenix, Arizona; Newark, California; Houston, Texas; Frederick, Maryland.
Those five areas mark the birthplaces of the five Mariners who will make their Opening Day roster debuts: Taylor Trammell, Sam Haggerty, Chris Flexen, Will Vest and Jake Fraley.
It seems a little gratuitous, I suppose, to add this additional point of celebration, but fans aren’t the only ones who treat Opening Day with a particular reverence.
“You always get a special kick on Opening Day, no matter how many you go through,” Joe DiMaggio once recalled. “You look forward to it like a birthday party when you’re a kid.