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SEATTLE – When Jerry Dipoto took over baseball operations for the Mariners a decade ago, his initial goals were fairly modest.

SEATTLE – It came in the first inning of the Mariners’ 5-3 loss to the Dodgers.

SEATTLE – The game was not completely meaningless, but it wasn’t an anxiety-ridden nail-biter with immediate postseason implications.

The 27th and final out has come for ROOT Sports.

SEATTLE – Their total hours of sleep were certainly diminished from an earned and deserved celebration that lasted into the night and early morning hours. The external motivating factor of earning a bye through the wild card had already been secured roughly an hour before Emerson Hancock fired the opening pitch of Thursday night’s game against the Rockies.

SEATTLE – The Mariners clinched at least the No. 2 seed in the American League playoffs before the first pitch was thrown at T-Mobile Park on Thursday night.

Cal Raleigh is doing things that no Seattle Mariner and no catcher has ever done before, but is that enough to knock off Aaron Judge for American League MVP?

Here, in the stretch run of a grueling journey his peers can barely comprehend, Cal Raleigh shot down the idea that he is accomplishing anything extraordinary.

The robots are coming in 2026. Cal Raleigh is not thrilled. Major League Baseball announced this week that the Automated Ball/Strike System (ABS) would be coming to the majors next season after it had been used in the minors since 2019. Major League Baseball’s 11-man competition committee approved use of the system. Its adoption to be used in the majors was inevitable, especially after being ...

The list of Cal Raleigh's achievements this year are as long as a moonshot to straightaway center. He set the single-season home run record for catchers, switch hitters and Mariners, won the Home Run Derby in July and may have just taken over as the front-runner for American League MVP. But Wednesday, he did something that would have seemed impossible before the season began. 

Season after season, they could only watch as someone else took their turn atop a place that seemed to grow farther away with each passing year.