This year SB Nation is rolling out a series previewing each team before the upcoming season with an eye to how the team is set up to compete in 2018 and beyond. If you read the site in December and January—and if you did, your LL pLLatinum-level card is in the mail, along with what I’m told is a very generous fruit basket—you are familiar with the AL West preview series we did. This article will essentially condense what would have been a full week preview into a nutritious slurry that you can drink all in one go, because let’s face it, the less time spent thinking about the 2017 Mariners and the 2018 off-season, the better.