Next year’s Mariners are going to have to be a portrait of health for them to have any chance. No James Paxton going down for a month. No Felix Hernandez going down for two.
The good news is that it’s baseball, where you don’t have to be the best team to hoist a trophy. Clubs that win 100 games in the regular season often fail to win three in the postseason.
That’s the nature of a sport with too many variables to make any sort of firm prediction in a given series. What was that quote from Mr.