The 2020 season remains scheduled to begin two weeks from Thursday, and fully released schedules means teams can begin to game-plan for specific opponents and schedule chartered flights with nervous breath. It also means projection systems can offer recalibrated estimations of the season’s outcome, though what that looks like could vary wildly as health issues traditional and viral crop up, players opt out, and things otherwise fluctuate nationwide. The PECOTA projection system held the pre-quarantine Mariners in little regard, pegging them for 66-96 over 162 games, good for 2nd-worst in all of MLB, and they don’t anticipate Seattle’s fortunes improving in the 60-game, all-West-a-fiesta.
PECOTA & ZiPS 2020 projection systems expect the Mariners to have MLB’s 2nd-worst record
