In the mid-to-late nineties, the Mariners let the world know that they were now a power-hitting team.
In their eighteen years of existence prior to 1995, the Mariners had only ranked in the top-five in home runs while hitting at least one hundred and seventy dingers once.
That was back in 1985 when Gorman Thomas, Jim Presley, and Phil Bradley combined for eighty-six of the team’s franchise record one hundred and seventy-one home runs that year.
That record would only hold up for a decade because the nineties generation of M’s players were about to heat up.