It feels like we’ve said this intermittently throughout the last decade plus, but this is, with minimal exaggeration, the most important off-season in franchise history. They did the rebuild, they made the crushing trades, they drafted and developed future stars, and last season they came so perilously close to breaking the longest playoff drought in professional sports history. It hasn’t been strictly linear progress, but even the grumpiest of Guses and Gerties can’t deny that they’re galloping into this off-season on a promising path. That’s what makes these next few months so meaningful. There are clear, obvious points of improvement and many paths through which they can improve.
Seattle Mariners 2021-22 offseason: What they have, what they need, what fans want
