The Seattle Mariners are headed to the American League Championship Series for the first time since 2001. Drink it in, Pacific Northwesterners, like a cup of Seattle coffee.

As the Mariners approach the biggest Seattle baseball series in more than two decades, many people unfamiliar with the team will be looking to familiarize themselves with this bunch. The tendency might be to view this as a Mariners team that stresses run prevention and doesn't hit all too well, other than slugging catcher Cal Raleigh and his 60 home runs -- those can't have slipped past the consciousness of anyone, right?

Especially after the Mariners played a 15-inning marathon against the Tigers in Game 5 of the ALDS, where the final score was 3-2, the sentiment might again be that the Mariners' offense is a

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