Seattle Mariners 2021 Grades: Part 2 – Outfielders
Chris Phillips
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Now that the Seattle Mariners 2021 season is over, it’s time to evaluate the team. In Part 2, we grade the outfielders.
The Seattle Mariners season 2021 season came to an end. Despite 90 wins, it’s another year without postseason baseball in the Pacific Northwest. The longest playoff drought in the Majors will now be able to legally drink when the next baseball season gets underway in 2022. However, the Seattle Mariners’ future is bright. Or, at the very least, brighter than it’s been.
Stepping into the “Wayback Machine,” the last time the Seattle Mariners won at least 90 games was in 2003. That year they won 93, had a run differential of +164, but the Boston Red Sox claimed the last wild card spot. A little trip down memory lane for that year. Roy Halladay was alive and pitching for Toronto. It would be the last year Texas had Alex Rodriguez on their roster. He tied Jim Thome for the American League lead in home runs with 47.
That season, the Cubs had a dominant one-two punch of Kerry Wood and Mark Prior. That’s also the year of Steve Bartman and the Cubs’ greatest choke of all time. Enough of living in the past.
This is Part 2 of our 2021 Mariners grades, focusing on the outfield. Click here for Part 1 about the infield.
In this series, we used several factors to evaluate the Seattle Mariners’ position players. They are offensive production, defensive production, and intangibles. The intangibles are a subjective list of items, including clubhouse presence, leadership, clutch factors.