Nov. 2—For the second straight season, the World Series champion comes from the American League West. Can the Mariners can take any solace in the fact that they were eliminated by the eventual World Series champion for the second straight season? Yeah, probably not, since the Texas Rangers moved right past them in the baseball hierarchy. With the World Series finished, a seminal offseason ...

The Arizona Diamondbacks, tantalizingly close to a World Series championship, can pinpoint the turnaround of their season to July 31, when they acquired Paul Sewald from Seattle and rectified a faltering bullpen.

SEATTLE – If the Mariners wanted to go gentle into that bad night after being eliminated from the playoffs on the last Saturday of the season, well, no such luck.

SEATTLE – Twenty teams, some Paul Sewald quotes and a call to action for Mariners ownership.

SEATTLE – If the Seattle Mariners’ front office had added more offensive pieces to the roster last offseason, maybe the M’s would not have needed to trade Paul Sewald this summer.

An offseason that started earlier than expected for the Seattle Mariners and their fans brought a feeling of disappointment and second-guessing of how it all went so wrong. That lasted less than 48 hours.

Oct. 7—It took a few days, but the fallout seems to have momentarily subsided, with Mariners president of baseball operations Jerry Dipoto apologizing for postseason comments that called his ambition into question. That fiasco of a news conference was the main M's headline over the past few days, as fans' fears that the team might never spend big money were amplified. But now that we're five ...

SEATTLE – Almost 48 hours after the end-of-season news conference that went awry with comments that enraged an already angry fan base, furious about how and why the Seattle Mariners weren’t participating in the postseason, Jerry Dipoto, Mariners president of baseball operations, spoke publicly for the first time.

SEATTLE – One by one, Mariners general manager Justin Hollander went around the home clubhouse Sunday afternoon and thanked players for their contributions this year.

As the first of the four MLB wild card games scheduled for Tuesday had reached the fifth inning, with the Texas Rangers, the team that squelched their postseason hopes a few days earlier, leading 2-0 in Tampa, the Mariners were instead starting their end-of-season news conference at T-Mobile Park.

SEATTLE – If there’s one thing Mariners fans don’t want to hear right now, with the searing disappointment of another playoff absence still burning in their baseball souls, it’s the need for patience.