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The Mariners are a team whose foundation was built on roster miscalculations.

SEATTLE – With what has transpired over the past 360-plus days, the look and feel had to be different.

The typical trend on Twitter and other social media was to say farewell and good riddance to 2020 – a year that will certainly be unforgettable for all the wrong reasons – and happily welcome in 2021 as if simply changing that last numeral will somehow make this trip around the sun better than the previous 365 days.

A worldwide pandemic wiped away plenty of sports in eastern Washington.

With access to his sometimes twice-daily games of pickup basketball limited due to the COVID-19 pandemic, San Diego Padres general manager A.J. Preller, a notorious hoop-a-holic, has seemingly channeled his frenetic energy on the court into player acquisitions for his team

Compared with the 20 years of struggles to find a competent and productive starting left fielder, or the failures at shortstop after the departure of Alex Rodriguez, or the recent revolving door at first base, the Mariners’ instability and inconsistency at second base is far less dramatic.

Seattle Mariners manager Scott Servais held his first media session since the season finale Sept. 27, but there wasn’t much news to talk about, and the most notable thing might have been that the session was on a Zoom call from T-Mobile Park instead of from the winter meetings in Texas.

The Seattle Mariners continued their bullpen overhaul Wednesday by signing right-handed reliever Keynan Middleton.

The Seattle Mariners bolstered their bullpen on Tuesday by acquiring right-handed reliever Rafael Montero from the Texas Rangers.

SEATTLE – There are 56 new free agents on the open market after Wednesday evening’s deadline for teams to decide on tendering or nontendering guaranteed contracts to club-controlled players for the 2021 season.