This was a pretty eventful weekend for the Mariners with the promotion of Justus Sheffield, Jake Fraley‘s home debut, and the return of Félix Hernández. But, like with most things with this team in 2019, the good is often outweighed by the bad. And it just so happened that all of this fell in line with the series many Mariners fans dread the most, on a weekend designed to push merchandise and ultimately make baseball unwatchable for 72 hours.
In the past, I haven’t been entirely opposed to Players Weekend. While most of the uniform designs and color palettes over the last two years were horrendous in their right own, they had a sense of charm and wackiness to them that made the weekend palatable at least.