Seattle Mariners: Building the best 2022 batting order
Batting 7th – Adam Frazier
Frazier batted over .300 from the seventh spot last season. Over his career, it’s a good place for him to be with a .351/.406/.504 slash line. Seattle’s newest second baseman slots in nicely here to set up Suarez and the Tom Murphy/Cal Raleigh/Luis Torrens catching trio at the end of the lineup.
Adam Frazier should bat seventh in this stacked lineup.
Batting 8th – Eugenio Suarez
Eighth was Suarez’s best spot last season. In a limited sample size, he batted .286 with a 1.143 OPS here.
Suarez strikes out a ton but also belts lots of homers. Hitting behind Kelenic, J-Rod, and Frazier, he will make the second cleanup spot in the order a valuable place. Plus, the M’s can hide his high strikeout rate in the back of the lineup to lessen its impact.
Eugenio Suarez bats eighth, providing plenty of power on the back-end.
Batting 9th – Tom Murphy, Luis Torrens, or Cal Raleigh
Any of these power-hitting catchers belongs at the bottom of this lineup. More so than Frazier or Crawford. The combination of power and strikeouts in the eighth and ninth spots won’t leave many RBI chances for the top of the order. Then again, the stacked nature of this particular lineup makes it hard to put these two anywhere else.
Whoever the catcher is, on a given day, bats last.
Bench: Dylan Moore, Abraham Toro.
Joe Swenson is a native Washingtonian that lives in Maine now. He’s obsessed with baseball in all facets and is very relieved that a full 2022 season will be played.