The annual release of the ZiPS projection system (department of redundancy department) has swept through the Seattle Mariners roster, providing a framework for Seattle’s possible 2022 outcomes. Dan Szymborski’s venerable projection system sees the Mariners as around an 80-85 win team as it stands, an encouraging baseline considering the club’s immense unspent capital and the various star-level players the club has been connected with and will hopefully reconvene with once the owners’ lockout concludes. While Szymborski notes Seattle is in an encouraging position, there are some worries, some highlighted in the depth chart below, others not.