SEATTLE – Forgettable for many reasons, largely out of the desire to not remember their lack of production and unmet potential, the names of the failed, and there were so many names, can still be reeled off by die-hard Seattle Mariners fans.

Maybe we all should have known something was up when, early in the 2021 season, Kyle Seager changed his walk-up song to Eric Church’s “Carolina.”

When the Mariners posted their starting lineup for the regular season finale of the 2021 season — a game they absolutely needed to win to keep their slim postseason hopes alive — they started utility infielder Dylan Moore in left field.

SEATTLE – No, there won’t be a statue in his likeness erected outside T-Mobile Park. His number won’t hang from the bleachers in left-center field, either.

SEATTLE – With a sold-out crowd chanting his name and tears filling his eyes as he hugged his teammates and walked off of T-Mobile Park for the final time, Kyle Seager bid farewell to the only organization he’d known in his distinguished baseball career.

In filling out a Baseball Hall of Fame ballot, the agonizing is as much about the names you leave off as the ones you choose.

SEATTLE – Whether you agree with his thinking or find the concept of the Seattle Mariners limiting their scope on the free-agent market in any way foolish, Jerry Dipoto has made it clear that J.P. Crawford will be their shortstop when the 2022 season (one hopes) begins March 31.

SEATTLE – What do you call a team that hasn’t made the playoffs in 20 years? What’s the label you give a franchise with the longest postseason drought in the four most lucrative American sports leagues?

The Seattle Mariners were still in the middle of finishing their first big deal of the offseason when they started making an aggressive move to land a new ace for their pitching rotation, a signing that would grab even more attention.

During an offseason in which they intended to spend more than they had spent in years but hadn’t seemed to find many players wanting to take their available dollars, the Mariners finally joined Major League Baseball’s free-agent frenzy Monday by adding the reigning American League Cy Young winner to their starting rotation.