The Seattle Mariners could not have dreamed up of a better way to finish the season than the way they did. They managed to not just win the AL West crown, with the Houston Astros failing to even make it to the postseason, they also clinched a bye to the ALDS by virtue of being the second-best division winner (just behind the Toronto Blue Jays, the team that sealed homefield advantage at least through the ALCS).

While dodging the AL Wild Card series is big considering how the MLB postseason is, and has always been, a crapshoot, the Mariners will now have to battle against the possibility of accumulating rust as they wait for their ALDS opponent, the winner of the AL Wild Card series between the Cleveland Guardians and Detroit Tigers.

But Mariners star Cal Raleigh , who might be in lin

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