@@jacksonsiemens177they have the exact same team and now they have Teoscar Hernandez and Kolten Wong. I am not a Mariners fan but omg are they gonna be fun to watch this season
Getting swept by the Astros is an enormous improvement over missing the postseason entirely. They ran into a dynastic team and honestly could've won any of the 3 games they didn't. My view is basically that they lacked experience in games like that, which the Astros obviously have a ton of over the last 6 years. In 2/3 games they played against them in the series, the Astros had to stage comebacks late in the games, and the Mariners' pitching staff then matched the best pitching staff in the AL (arguably all of MLB) for 17 innings in game 3. It was probably the most competitive sweep in recent memory.
Yeah. And not only did the Astros have to stage comebacks, but they had to have the literal second-best pure hitter this generation at the plate for them. I feel that the M's put up the greatest fight against the Astros among their 3 opponents. When the defining difference between two was "no pitching answer for Yonder Alonso" and it was still that close, that's crazy close. 4* games, 3 wins (1 doesn't-count tie in the first 9 of that 18-IP game), 4-run total differential.
@@FlyingDwarfman 2nd best pure hitter of this generation? Who's number 1, trout or judge? Because how can you say he's a better pure hitter than either of those guys?
@@FlyingDwarfman Get a load of this cope. You got beat by superior pitching and the combined efforts of Kyle tucker, Alex bregman, Jeremy Peña, David Hensley, and Yordan Alvarez.
The dude absolutely balled out too. His numbers weren't sexy, but he had big homers when it counted, and I certainly noticed the big 36 year old played Hard at first base when Ty France was down. I saw Santana go dive after a potential base hit, get up like a teenager doing burpies at football camp, and hustle over to the bag to get the out. That had to absolutely fire up the young guys seeing the big dog have that fight!
I’m a Blue Jays fan but I do have a soft spot for the Mariners. I’m really proud of what they accomplished this year and can’t wait to see what’s next. The future is very bright.
And now the Teoscar Hernandez trade! I do think it's a win-win trade as Erik Swanson was quietly a great bullpen arm; he's good against both righties and lefties. Take good care of him!
Thank you so much for making this video. This season has meant so much for myself and hundreds of thousands of other diehard fans. It's definitely due time that our Mariners get some love for what they are building because this team is legitimately a few pieces away from a championship roster. While in the end a sweep is a sweep, look at the way they played the Astros. They were leading Game 1 until the bottom of the 9th and were 1 strike away. G2 they just flat out got beat but then you go to Game 3 in Seattle for the first time in 20 years and it was absolutely incredible. 18 innings of scoreless baseball going back and forth and eventually Jeremy Pena/all the luck going to HOU was just too good. If we make the right moves this team absolutely can beat the Astros in the postseason next year and if we can do that we will win the World Series. I am so, so ready for the next chapter of Seattle Mariners baseball.
Several Astros players also said we were their toughest opponent. Verlander said so after their world series victory; Lance McCullers said after the divisional series that if the Mariners had beat them, they were going to win the world series because no one was going to beat the Mariners.
@@jefffinkbonner9551 Mariners bullpen was not good enough, they allowed 10 runs combined in game 2 of the Wild Card game against Toronto and in game 1 of the ALDS against Houston. The Yankees or Phillies would have beaten the Mariners as both of those teams had good bullpens and superior offenses.
@@1080p120hz we owned the Yankees in the regular season, who ever won the series between the astros and mariners was going all the way, Yankees were crumbling at the end of the year and both the mariners and astros we hitting their strides. Astros just had more talent in the long run then us.
@@braytonschafer5606 No there is no way the Mariners were making a deep run with how poorly their bullpen was performing overall in the postseason. The Yankees bullpen was actually solid in the ALCS. Their offense got shut down by the Astros pitching. Mariners ended the season 5-5 in their last 10 with some horrible losses to bad teams. Luis Castillo lost to the As and Royals. He dominated the Blue Jays due to their lineup consisting of 8 right handed batters. Houston has Yordan and Tucker and those two are 2 of the best left handed hitters in the game and in the middle of their order. Yordan and Tucker both hit a home run against Castillo in game 2.
@@braytonschafer5606 The Mariners played the Yankees until August, the Yankees were already in a tailspin by August. Houston played the Yankees on June 23rd when the Yankees were at their peak and red hot, NY had the best record in baseball and led MLB in every offensive category. The Yankees were the first team in the AL to reach 60 wins. Thats around the time the Astros played them. Houston beat them at home on June 24th, ending a Yankees streak of not having lost a game at home in over a month. That's the same series that Houston pitched a combined no-hitter at Yankee stadium. The Yankees finished the season 50-51 in their last 101 games after a hot start.
The Mariners clinching the playoffs on that walkoff and the comeback in the WC round are two of the happiest moments of my life. Regardless of how the playoffs ended for us, and we put up a fight against Houston, this run meant so much to so many Mariners fans. What an awesome season. And we're only going to get better from here on out.
Exactly my thinking. After 20+ years my desire for a season was, get close to the playoffs, when we did that it was grab a wild card. Now that we've done that, with this core team, I am hoping for an ALCS; hoping for a win there, but would be happy just getting there. The foundation is here and I'm ready for the team to build on it for years to come.
I’ll never forget how much of a fight Seattle actually put up in that Houston series, even if others do just because it says “3-0” Edit: To be clear, I’m a Marlins fan. We may suck, but stop with the “y’all” It’s just incorrect.
Absolutely. People can throw around the 3-0 numbers all they want, Houston had to walk it off twice. No one can say that Seattle didn't make them earn it when they nearly took Game one, had a lead in Game two, and tied for the longest playoff game in MLB history with a scoreless game three.
As a Mariners fan the 2021 and 2022 seasons were something out of a storybook. 180 wins of fun and chaos. The future is bright but this team needs to make bigger splashes. It can’t stop here they need to become consistently good and finally spend some money on big name FAs. So proud of this team and org, will cherish these moments for the rest of my life
Hey now!!! I've been waiting for this video since the season ended. Thanks for putting it out. This season has been an awesome run for a lifelong mariner fan. Parents were lifelong fans and I was barely old enough to remember the last time we went to this post season. This was awesome. Thanks. Great breakdown.
That call by the commentator for Raleigh's walk off to clinch is one of the greatest calls I've heard. From the legend Niehaus to the voice we have today. Seattle has a great commentator scout. 😆
We've got a story book, roller coaster-ride franchise, that's for sure. Down, up, down, down, up, down x10, *WAY UP*, down x21, *UP AGAIN* Thankfully, for the literal first time ever, there's an ownership and front office that prioritize championships over profit (**** you, "Hoarding" Howard Lincoln. **** you.)
@@FlyingDwarfman Right!? This front office really gives me hope. And a roster of guys who are buying in. Finally a TEAM again, and not just Felix and some other guys. 😆
Man…there’s been one playoff game in Seattle baseball in 20 years, but the atmosphere was electric! Unfortunately it was against the Astros…they need to place higher so they can avoid facing the Astros again until the LCS.
Can't do that, the 3 seed is for the third division winner and heavy odds are the Astros win the west again next year :/ Road to the WS goes through Houston and you'd rather face them in a 5 game series than a 7 game series
@@Rymann_23 Yeah I don't know if either series length is better given what happened to the Yankees. I guess the best thing to do would be to beat the two time reigning AL Champs (Possibly reigning WS champs) and win the AL West.
You gotta make a video on the last day of the 2021 season and the AL wildcard race. It was so much fun. Jays fan, so I was left wondering “what if”, but it was still an amazing day or baseball/final series. Great video as always!
I was so annoyed that my favourite player brought them to the post season while I was out of the house but literally cried tears of joy after re watching it on TH-cam. Hope the Mariners stay the happy,hopeful people I love! Good video!!!!!!!!!!
Mariners fans from Boston red Sox fan, let me tell you, this one was one hell of a ride, the Future looks bright for the emerald city. You will have the chance to slay your dragon
Aaaand Kyle Lewis is with the Diamondbacks now. Best of luck to him; hopefully it's a new beginning for him. He just ran into so many injuries. That utility fella who's also a switch-hitting catcher we got back seem intriguing...
@@jefffinkbonner9551 Yeah. That he came back once from his tragic injury (for the unawares, he had a fluke collision at home plate that tore not one, but TWO ligaments in one knee) at all was story-book amazing. He'd literally only just barely started his pro career (short season Rookie ball) and it was already over. He somehow works his way back, builds up strength and durability in that knee, and becomes not only manages to make the Bigs one day but sets an MLB record (most consecutive games with a HR to start career [with 6]) and then decidedly wins Rookie of the Year. Books and movies don't drop that low or rise that high, and yet this was real life. It would jerk tears out of even the most "unemotional" men. And then we find out at the start of the sequel... the knee is injured again. Right now, he sits with another lost season and now traded to another org. Hopefully, there's another storybook ending to this sequel because... Kyle Lewis deserves one.
I was at the game when Cal Raleigh hit the walk off home run to end the drought. As a fan for over 25 years, that game was the most special of any I've ever been to. Go M's!
Between Cal’s HR, that Yankee extra inning thriller, the Blue Jays comeback and that final 18 inning game against Houston; this team is on Par with any Griffey Era Team. I’ve been a Mariners fan since 91.
As an ASTRO fan I hate the mariners, but I love the fact that they are getting better, every franchise deserves to be in the playoffs, but only a few actually get into a deep run.
Great video. One thing I wished you went more in depth about was the Houston series in the ALDS. They may have gotten swept, but they put up far more of a fight than the Yankees did in the ALCS. For the majority of that series, the Mariners were the better team. In the 36 total innings played, the Astros had the lead in just 4. If it weren’t for two crucial swings from Alvarez and one from Pena, it would have been 3-0 Mariners.
As a mariners fan this season was so fun man and this is just the beginning I hope! Just hope this offseason we can snag up one of the SS avaliable we need a middle infield bat. Obviously Would Love trea but done see it but Bogarets, Correa, or Swanson would be nice. Add another bat or 2 after that maybe another arm and were set
Even though they got swept, 2 of those games were decided by one run including a game where neither team scored for 18 innings, and the other game came down to the 9th inning with 2 outs. Game 2 was the only loss where the Astros had control for the majority of the game.
As a Mariners fan, just the fact that we won a playoff series in our first appearance in over 20 years is amazing progress. I really do have hope that they’ll win a World Series in the coming years
Even though they got swept in the end, they were 1 out away from taking Game 1, and just needed 1 run in 17 innings to take Game 3 (though the pitching from both sides so that is a lot easier said than done). But imagine if both those happened. They would have had 2 chances to knock out the Astros, and the entire city of Seattle would have shown up for Game 4
@@Rymann_23 We need something. Perhaps a big bat. My preference would be Shohei Ohtani, even though I've heard he doesn't want to step on Ichiro's legacy and he's not a free agent until after the 2023 season. I wouldn't mind it if it brings Seattle their first World Series.
Watching 10 months later is weird. 2023 didnt start off as bad, but not as good as expected. Losing Ray and Muñoz was rough. Wong being a major bust. Flexen underperformed and Marco got hurt too. Then summer came. Traded Sewald seemed baffling. Kelenic started MVP caliber, chilled, then kicked the bucket. Castillo, Kirby. Gilbert can be a legendary trio. Now following an 8 game streak, 3 game loss, 8 game streak, followed by a fluke bonk in the head loss, 2023 is shaping up to being an even crazier season! Hey now!
05:45 Winker was just pissed he’s contributed nothing to this team offensively. What a regression. Dudes the Nick Castellanos of the American League. Didn’t they both play for the Reds in 2020?
If JRod does become the legend he’s touted to be then that 17 year 470 is gonna look sweet to the Mariners who will have stolen his services at an AAV of 27 million.
Stopped paying as much attention to baseball because my Ms missed playoffs so many times, then the rise of Jomboy got me watching baseball again and the resurgence of the Mariners franchise got me really excited about my team again: ) thank Jomboy and Mariners organization, here's to another successful off-season, let's shoot for the title next year!
Obviously winning 90 in 2021 made this season slightly less impressive on paper, but that's also a very simple way to look at it. The team in 2021 was the most clutch by a country mile. Fangraphs clutch stat had the 2021 Ms at 8.71 with 2nd place being the Phillies at 3.2. For context the eventual champion Braves had a clutch score of -2.17. That team relied on a lot of luck and timely hits from generally "bad" players. The 2022 team felt like an actual team. I was 2 when they last made the playoffs in 2001 so I grew up only ever knowing failure. No Mariners squad has ever felt more cohesive and together as this group of guys. I'm excited for the future and to see Julio continue to develop.
Just one note to offer. Houston may have swept Seattle in three games, but the fact is that Houston won those three games by a combined four runs. That tells me that a healthy Houston team is not all that far ahead of Seattle, certainly not as far ahead as far too many Houston fanatics want to believe they are. And Seattle has a payroll of $88 million going into next year. Their needs are a legitimate lefty in the back end of the bullpen, a second basemen, and a left-handed or switch hitting power bat for either left field or DH. If they jump in the Judge sweepstakes, then he takes over left field and Winker becomes your regular DH Haggerty becomes Mr Everyposition and then you have to ask whether you want Trammell, Kelenic or Haniger to play right field next year. Haniger is set for free agency if Seattle doesn't extend him in the off-season. If you don't, your choices are Haggerty, Kelenic or Trammell. Those are also your choices to play center when you want to give Julio a day off. This is all assuming that Kyle Lewis never becomes the guy he once was. He will never roam center again, but he might be able to play left one day, or he might get traded. But Seattle also has a shot at Ohtani as a free agent in 2023-2024 off-season if they don't land Judge this year. Seattle is on his short list. So the future looks bright for Seattle, and they are quickly becoming a reasonably good destination for top talent, as long as that top talent has the correct mental makeup that is able to put team first. If you are a superstar that won't bunt when you are told to, then you will not fit here. Julio has more than one sacrifice bunt this year. He has sacrifice flies. He steals bases, playing small ball when the occasion calls for it. Too many of the superstar players won't give their personal glory up for the team. Ken Griffey Jr did. He would have made 700 homers easily had he not played the team first game that Lou required of his players. That is why I was glad Soto was really not a serious target. Yes, he is a great player, but he plays the game more for him than the team.
Dude, the Astros minus Verlander held the Mariners to two runs the entire series. Their pitching was unstoppable. The Astros had a 0.83 bullpen ERA. The Mariners are nowhere close.
As a Mariners fan who follows their prospects, there is something I'm begging -- *BEGGING* -- someone to legitimately discuss at some point. That is... Before Opening Day 2022, Julio was indeed the #2 prospect in baseball... *BUT* as a RF who had played a grand total of 49 professional games in CF. In addition, he was skipping AAA ... and only played 35 games in AA. Julio was *NEVER* regarded as a CF. Kelenic had been described as "bat-first CF who will 'eventually' slide to a corner". Julio up until Spring Training 2022 had always been a RF. The most optimistic scouting report on his CF potential was in the "maybe a few games for his first couple seasons". And -- again -- 35 games in AA and 0 in AAA. I'm not going to take away from the #1 ranked, "80-grade" (per Fangraphs) Wander Franco because he deserves it. The note I want to bring up is that his 80-grade has been consistently defined as "SS today with 3B/ CF future and 1B/ COF bat". In other words, a defender who won't "hurt" a team defensively at SS and whallop a baseball like a 1B, LF, or RF should (math-wise, think "no worse than -5 at SS, but 110+ wRC+ as a rookie). And he absolutely showed that (average -- maybe even good -- at SS and a 116 wRC+). This is about the change in Julio that occurred in the 2021-2022 off-season. At the end of 2021, Julio was "above-average corner glove, but has zero chance at starting up-the-middle and much higher potential than normal COF bat". He was earnestly projected to be a fantastic hitter from Day -1, but was never remotely thought of as "CF". He was "fast for COF, but not 'CF fast'". Absolutely no one would say he'd be one of the fastest in the game. And then everything changed by Opening Day, 2022. I really -- truly -- wish I could still pull up his pre-2022 BaseballSavant reports to compare to the currents, but MiL reports are deeper to pull out. Undoubtedly, though, the change was unfathomable. He went from middling sprint speed numbers (slightly above MLB average; around average for his young age) to elite (97th percentile; 15th-ranked in MLB of the 582 listed on Baseball Savant). From a "RF-forever" teenager to "Above-average... maybe-really-good CF until... uh... his retirement?"... In a single offseason. This doesn't happen. Never certainly in the Statcast Era and only very rarely in the "old" days we didn't have modern training and measuring methods did a player move this drastically *UP* the defense spectrum. IF OF switches are one thing (wildly different skills), but the fundamental skills within those spectra are almost entirely defined by near-MLB. Then there was Julio. He changed from #2-prospect-in-all-of-baseball-level RF (because of his bat and bat alone) and then added to his defense and speed skill enough to make him an above-average CF. From there, I've been trying to ask of those who know more than I do: "What would Julio's prospect grade had been if he'd actually been as good as he was on Opening Day 2022?" Because... well... he wasn't as good. He was certainly not "bad". He wasn't even so "low" ranked as "very good". Fangraphs had him as a 65-grade RF prospect and ranked him #3 in their Top-100 2022 Graduates and (direct quote from FanGraphs 'The Board' report on him) "... the highest-ranked corner bat on [the] list". From there, I have two closing statements: 1. If Julio had been a CF all along, I have no doubts that he'd have been regarded a "super prospect". Maybe not quite Wander Franco, but would have indeed been beaten Rutschman in the prospect rankings 2. His example is a major piece of evidence that athleticism (notably sprint speed and OF defense) is a teachable skill and not an inherent, 100%-locked-in-at-birth "talent".
But at the same time, look at the Braves. They may have lost in the ALDS, but they've locked up some great talent long term and it started with Acuña. He may have had injury problems, but he's worth it.
Cal's walk off still gives me goosebumps every time
Cal is an amazing player and I hope he keeps doing his best!
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Did you watch yordan walk off that gives me chills too
@@manueltrae713 Astros fans materializing anywhere where there is Mariners content to make it about themselves
Facts
Jon Bois would be proud
It's a shame he got into that nacho drinking coma a few months back...
Even the music was fitting lol. I liked this.
This was pretty good
All I can say is that I cannot wait to see what next year brings. So proud of the M's for finally snapping the drought.
y’all miss the wildcard sadly
@@jacksonsiemens177they have the exact same team and now they have Teoscar Hernandez and Kolten Wong. I am not a Mariners fan but omg are they gonna be fun to watch this season
@Gelato as a person living near Seattle, I totally agree. Good luck to whatever team you root for as well.
@@jdeez324 thanks, too bad we are in the same league, I’m a Yankees fan you may not like that
this is aging well@@JackDeSilver
Getting swept by the Astros is an enormous improvement over missing the postseason entirely. They ran into a dynastic team and honestly could've won any of the 3 games they didn't. My view is basically that they lacked experience in games like that, which the Astros obviously have a ton of over the last 6 years.
In 2/3 games they played against them in the series, the Astros had to stage comebacks late in the games, and the Mariners' pitching staff then matched the best pitching staff in the AL (arguably all of MLB) for 17 innings in game 3.
It was probably the most competitive sweep in recent memory.
Yeah. And not only did the Astros have to stage comebacks, but they had to have the literal second-best pure hitter this generation at the plate for them.
I feel that the M's put up the greatest fight against the Astros among their 3 opponents. When the defining difference between two was "no pitching answer for Yonder Alonso" and it was still that close, that's crazy close.
4* games, 3 wins (1 doesn't-count tie in the first 9 of that 18-IP game), 4-run total differential.
@@FlyingDwarfman 2nd best pure hitter of this generation? Who's number 1, trout or judge? Because how can you say he's a better pure hitter than either of those guys?
@@FlyingDwarfman Get a load of this cope. You got beat by superior pitching and the combined efforts of Kyle tucker, Alex bregman, Jeremy Peña, David Hensley, and Yordan Alvarez.
it's nice to see a little payoff to a city that's been so faithful to their team throughout all the rough patches
2022 is a season I’ll certainly never forget, I’ll say that.
So many players talked about how great Carlos Santana was for the clubhouse.
I love a good clubhouse guy. One who can produce decently well when we need it, and also just be great veteran help to the young guys.
The dude absolutely balled out too. His numbers weren't sexy, but he had big homers when it counted, and I certainly noticed the big 36 year old played Hard at first base when Ty France was down. I saw Santana go dive after a potential base hit, get up like a teenager doing burpies at football camp, and hustle over to the bag to get the out. That had to absolutely fire up the young guys seeing the big dog have that fight!
Too bad the world is falling apart, or I could have really enjoyed this season. Am I listening to guy or a girl? Or a they?
Bro I’m just Reyna chill watching a baseball video calm the fuck down
@@fowchiiiliedpuppiesdiedyou need help
I’m a Blue Jays fan but I do have a soft spot for the Mariners. I’m really proud of what they accomplished this year and can’t wait to see what’s next. The future is very bright.
Same
But it did suck that we got swept
And now the Teoscar Hernandez trade! I do think it's a win-win trade as Erik Swanson was quietly a great bullpen arm; he's good against both righties and lefties. Take good care of him!
Blue Jays the team that kicks my butt in Ken Griffey JR. presents major league baseball.
I will remember the 2022 Mariners season forever
"Maybe next year" has a hopeful ring to it now and I can't wait to see what happens next
And we pissed it away in the off season twice in a row lmao
Thank you so much for making this video. This season has meant so much for myself and hundreds of thousands of other diehard fans. It's definitely due time that our Mariners get some love for what they are building because this team is legitimately a few pieces away from a championship roster. While in the end a sweep is a sweep, look at the way they played the Astros. They were leading Game 1 until the bottom of the 9th and were 1 strike away. G2 they just flat out got beat but then you go to Game 3 in Seattle for the first time in 20 years and it was absolutely incredible. 18 innings of scoreless baseball going back and forth and eventually Jeremy Pena/all the luck going to HOU was just too good. If we make the right moves this team absolutely can beat the Astros in the postseason next year and if we can do that we will win the World Series. I am so, so ready for the next chapter of Seattle Mariners baseball.
Several Astros players also said we were their toughest opponent. Verlander said so after their world series victory; Lance McCullers said after the divisional series that if the Mariners had beat them, they were going to win the world series because no one was going to beat the Mariners.
@@jefffinkbonner9551 Mariners bullpen was not good enough, they allowed 10 runs combined in game 2 of the Wild Card game against Toronto and in game 1 of the ALDS against Houston. The Yankees or Phillies would have beaten the Mariners as both of those teams had good bullpens and superior offenses.
@@1080p120hz we owned the Yankees in the regular season, who ever won the series between the astros and mariners was going all the way, Yankees were crumbling at the end of the year and both the mariners and astros we hitting their strides. Astros just had more talent in the long run then us.
@@braytonschafer5606 No there is no way the Mariners were making a deep run with how poorly their bullpen was performing overall in the postseason. The Yankees bullpen was actually solid in the ALCS. Their offense got shut down by the Astros pitching. Mariners ended the season 5-5 in their last 10 with some horrible losses to bad teams. Luis Castillo lost to the As and Royals. He dominated the Blue Jays due to their lineup consisting of 8 right handed batters. Houston has Yordan and Tucker and those two are 2 of the best left handed hitters in the game and in the middle of their order. Yordan and Tucker both hit a home run against Castillo in game 2.
@@braytonschafer5606 The Mariners played the Yankees until August, the Yankees were already in a tailspin by August. Houston played the Yankees on June 23rd when the Yankees were at their peak and red hot, NY had the best record in baseball and led MLB in every offensive category. The Yankees were the first team in the AL to reach 60 wins. Thats around the time the Astros played them. Houston beat them at home on June 24th, ending a Yankees streak of not having lost a game at home in over a month. That's the same series that Houston pitched a combined no-hitter at Yankee stadium. The Yankees finished the season 50-51 in their last 101 games after a hot start.
Love this team. Munoz striking out 3 Yankees in a row in that scoreless game was one of the coldest things I’d ever seen this season
Our future looks bright. J Rod will most likely become an mvp player. Soon. Hes a joy to watch.
I love your channel, as a Mariners fan, I've been waiting for a Mariners video from you from a long time. Awesome work. Jon Bois is next.
Thank you!
Cals walk off was the best night of my life. Never felt something so magical in my life.
The Mariners clinching the playoffs on that walkoff and the comeback in the WC round are two of the happiest moments of my life. Regardless of how the playoffs ended for us, and we put up a fight against Houston, this run meant so much to so many Mariners fans. What an awesome season. And we're only going to get better from here on out.
Exactly my thinking. After 20+ years my desire for a season was, get close to the playoffs, when we did that it was grab a wild card. Now that we've done that, with this core team, I am hoping for an ALCS; hoping for a win there, but would be happy just getting there. The foundation is here and I'm ready for the team to build on it for years to come.
I was at that game when the fire alarm went off it was very weird the team has been another level of success after that.
I’ll never forget how much of a fight Seattle actually put up in that Houston series, even if others do just because it says “3-0”
Edit: To be clear, I’m a Marlins fan. We may suck, but stop with the “y’all”
It’s just incorrect.
Absolutely. People can throw around the 3-0 numbers all they want, Houston had to walk it off twice. No one can say that Seattle didn't make them earn it when they nearly took Game one, had a lead in Game two, and tied for the longest playoff game in MLB history with a scoreless game three.
Yall def put a fight. Much more tenacious spirit than the pathetic showing the Yankees did in the ALCS. Good luck next year.
they definetly put up more of a fight then the yankees did
Lol yall got SWEPT
@@MrSkoal2 nah mariners lost in 3 yankees in 4, so yankees put up more fight
As a mariners fan truly an amazing season. Great vid!
As a Mariners fan the 2021 and 2022 seasons were something out of a storybook. 180 wins of fun and chaos. The future is bright but this team needs to make bigger splashes. It can’t stop here they need to become consistently good and finally spend some money on big name FAs. So proud of this team and org, will cherish these moments for the rest of my life
As an Astros fan, congrats on a great season
Hey now!!! I've been waiting for this video since the season ended. Thanks for putting it out. This season has been an awesome run for a lifelong mariner fan. Parents were lifelong fans and I was barely old enough to remember the last time we went to this post season. This was awesome. Thanks. Great breakdown.
That call by the commentator for Raleigh's walk off to clinch is one of the greatest calls I've heard. From the legend Niehaus to the voice we have today. Seattle has a great commentator scout. 😆
We've got a story book, roller coaster-ride franchise, that's for sure.
Down, up, down, down, up, down x10, *WAY UP*, down x21, *UP AGAIN*
Thankfully, for the literal first time ever, there's an ownership and front office that prioritize championships over profit (**** you, "Hoarding" Howard Lincoln. **** you.)
@@FlyingDwarfman Right!? This front office really gives me hope. And a roster of guys who are buying in. Finally a TEAM again, and not just Felix and some other guys. 😆
That would be Dave Sims
I feel another playoff run coming this season. I've felt something big has been coming for this team since 2021.
I love the Mariners so much. Thanks for this video on my favorite team
So incredibly happy with this season. Teared up multiple times during the video. True to the Blue.
Man…there’s been one playoff game in Seattle baseball in 20 years, but the atmosphere was electric! Unfortunately it was against the Astros…they need to place higher so they can avoid facing the Astros again until the LCS.
Can't do that, the 3 seed is for the third division winner and heavy odds are the Astros win the west again next year :/
Road to the WS goes through Houston and you'd rather face them in a 5 game series than a 7 game series
@@Rymann_23 Yeah I don't know if either series length is better given what happened to the Yankees. I guess the best thing to do would be to beat the two time reigning AL Champs (Possibly reigning WS champs) and win the AL West.
You gotta make a video on the last day of the 2021 season and the AL wildcard race. It was so much fun. Jays fan, so I was left wondering “what if”, but it was still an amazing day or baseball/final series.
Great video as always!
Thank you! Definitely an idea for the future
Us Jays fans have a permanent residence in what if land.
@@charliep123 I’m not trippin, Jays will be good to great for years to come
I was so annoyed that my favourite player brought them to the post season while I was out of the house but literally cried tears of joy after re watching it on TH-cam. Hope the Mariners stay the happy,hopeful people I love!
Good video!!!!!!!!!!
Mariners fans from Boston red Sox fan, let me tell you, this one was one hell of a ride, the Future looks bright for the emerald city. You will have the chance to slay your dragon
I still remember that series you swept us with Trevor Story singlehandedly destroying our pitching. Here's to a fun rematch next year.
As a reds fan I’m happy that our players contributed this much
Lifelong Astros fan here... The Yankees scare me absolutely zero...
these mariners scare the shit out of me. Going to be a fascinating 2023 season
Imagine if Kyle Lewis can come back healthy and play a full season, with Julio and Haniger we could easily have the best outfield in the league
That'd be nice, it'd also be nice if Kelenic could adapt to the MLB. Seeing Crawford develop a bat has been awesome on top of his good defense.
that's if kyle lewis stays a mariner this offseason
Teoscar Hernandez has something to say about that
Aaaand Kyle Lewis is with the Diamondbacks now. Best of luck to him; hopefully it's a new beginning for him. He just ran into so many injuries. That utility fella who's also a switch-hitting catcher we got back seem intriguing...
@@jefffinkbonner9551 Yeah. That he came back once from his tragic injury (for the unawares, he had a fluke collision at home plate that tore not one, but TWO ligaments in one knee) at all was story-book amazing. He'd literally only just barely started his pro career (short season Rookie ball) and it was already over.
He somehow works his way back, builds up strength and durability in that knee, and becomes not only manages to make the Bigs one day but sets an MLB record (most consecutive games with a HR to start career [with 6]) and then decidedly wins Rookie of the Year. Books and movies don't drop that low or rise that high, and yet this was real life.
It would jerk tears out of even the most "unemotional" men.
And then we find out at the start of the sequel... the knee is injured again. Right now, he sits with another lost season and now traded to another org. Hopefully, there's another storybook ending to this sequel because... Kyle Lewis deserves one.
"ohohohoooo what a silly hack!" Lives in my head rent free
So happy for this team. Best Mariners team I’ve ever seen play. Can’t wait for next year!
Knew this was on the way. Thanks SportStorm. Maybe a video on my Orioles too? No one expected us to do as well as we did!
I was at the game when Cal Raleigh hit the walk off home run to end the drought. As a fan for over 25 years, that game was the most special of any I've ever been to. Go M's!
Between Cal’s HR, that Yankee extra inning thriller, the Blue Jays comeback and that final 18 inning game against Houston; this team is on Par with any Griffey Era Team.
I’ve been a Mariners fan since 91.
Got chills watching this. Amazing work :)
Thank you so much for this video! Really hits home
Another banger of a video. You never miss good sir
Thank you!
As a blue Jays fan I decline to watch this video. Great content keep it up
I’ve been laughing my ass off about the announcers making fun of Gleyber’s swing since it happened. “Annnnd… oh! What a silly hack!”
I can't wait for Spring training, just around the corner! GO MARINERS! GODSPEED
Glad for the team and their fans. It’s a good team that fought the astros crazy close
1:40 you should have mentioned the 1987 twins who won the ws with a negative run differential of -20
One of my favorite videos on youtube! Thank you!
The announcers for that game against the Yankees did a great job. Made the game even more epic.
Man that Geno “GOOD VIBES ONLY” call is so great.
As an ASTRO fan I hate the mariners, but I love the fact that they are getting better, every franchise deserves to be in the playoffs, but only a few actually get into a deep run.
Great video. One thing I wished you went more in depth about was the Houston series in the ALDS. They may have gotten swept, but they put up far more of a fight than the Yankees did in the ALCS. For the majority of that series, the Mariners were the better team. In the 36 total innings played, the Astros had the lead in just 4. If it weren’t for two crucial swings from Alvarez and one from Pena, it would have been 3-0 Mariners.
As a mariners fan this season was so fun man and this is just the beginning I hope! Just hope this offseason we can snag up one of the SS avaliable we need a middle infield bat. Obviously Would Love trea but done see it but Bogarets, Correa, or Swanson would be nice. Add another bat or 2 after that maybe another arm and were set
i have been a Mariners fan my whole life and this was the first time they have every made the playoffs in my life
I was at that 13 inning Mariners Yankees game it was a great atmosphere
Even though they got swept, 2 of those games were decided by one run including a game where neither team scored for 18 innings, and the other game came down to the 9th inning with 2 outs. Game 2 was the only loss where the Astros had control for the majority of the game.
As a Mariners fan, just the fact that we won a playoff series in our first appearance in over 20 years is amazing progress. I really do have hope that they’ll win a World Series in the coming years
Growing up with Dave Sims has been an honor. Glad to be a Local Mariners Kid born and raised
Even though they got swept in the end, they were 1 out away from taking Game 1, and just needed 1 run in 17 innings to take Game 3 (though the pitching from both sides so that is a lot easier said than done). But imagine if both those happened. They would have had 2 chances to knock out the Astros, and the entire city of Seattle would have shown up for Game 4
Exactly. We just need a big bat and we can beat these guys and win the World Series
Exactly. We just need a big bat and we can beat these guys and win the World Series
@@Rymann_23 We need something. Perhaps a big bat. My preference would be Shohei Ohtani, even though I've heard he doesn't want to step on Ichiro's legacy and he's not a free agent until after the 2023 season. I wouldn't mind it if it brings Seattle their first World Series.
Lolmariners
I love your videos bro, they have a different flavor
Thank you!
Love the videos man you need more views 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 vids quality is amazing
Thank you!
That Mariner Magic is real.
love your channel bro pls upload more often
I’m so excited for this year hopefully I’ll get to see my home team win a series or at least get close!!! Love you M’s!!!
As an Astros fan, I love this Mariners team, Sorry for what Yordan did
Still hurts
Love it! Can you do a padre one??
Watching 10 months later is weird. 2023 didnt start off as bad, but not as good as expected. Losing Ray and Muñoz was rough. Wong being a major bust. Flexen underperformed and Marco got hurt too. Then summer came. Traded Sewald seemed baffling. Kelenic started MVP caliber, chilled, then kicked the bucket. Castillo, Kirby. Gilbert can be a legendary trio. Now following an 8 game streak, 3 game loss, 8 game streak, followed by a fluke bonk in the head loss, 2023 is shaping up to being an even crazier season! Hey now!
05:45 Winker was just pissed he’s contributed nothing to this team offensively. What a regression. Dudes the Nick Castellanos of the American League. Didn’t they both play for the Reds in 2020?
If JRod does become the legend he’s touted to be then that 17 year 470 is gonna look sweet to the Mariners who will have stolen his services at an AAV of 27 million.
As a Cubs fan I strongly respect the Mariners and would love to see them in the postseason in 2023.
Looking back on this now. We gave Houston the business despite the sweep. This year is just something else!
As a astros fan they put up a better fight than the yankees. And i actually enjoyed it
It's an epic rivalry for sure.
As much as I hate Scott Servias, this Mariners team is super likable! And this is coming from an Astros fan
Same when i saw jrod playing vs. Stros. I was like Thanos vs. Ironman "you have my respect".
The Atlanta game was the game of the year I lost my entire brain during that game. One I will never forget.
Stopped paying as much attention to baseball because my Ms missed playoffs so many times, then the rise of Jomboy got me watching baseball again and the resurgence of the Mariners franchise got me really excited about my team again: ) thank Jomboy and Mariners organization, here's to another successful off-season, let's shoot for the title next year!
I was at the fire alarm game! We were all confused about what was going on and why nobody was evacuated. Turned out to be OK... in more ways than one!
Remember when they blew an 11-2 lead against the royals in 1 inning? I do
You gotta make a Padres video, as a fan, best season I’ve ever experienced in my life
Great video!!!
M’s are my AL team and it’s awesome to see them succeed
I LOVE MY MARINERS!
Obviously winning 90 in 2021 made this season slightly less impressive on paper, but that's also a very simple way to look at it. The team in 2021 was the most clutch by a country mile. Fangraphs clutch stat had the 2021 Ms at 8.71 with 2nd place being the Phillies at 3.2. For context the eventual champion Braves had a clutch score of -2.17. That team relied on a lot of luck and timely hits from generally "bad" players. The 2022 team felt like an actual team. I was 2 when they last made the playoffs in 2001 so I grew up only ever knowing failure. No Mariners squad has ever felt more cohesive and together as this group of guys. I'm excited for the future and to see Julio continue to develop.
Seattle Mariners Shine Bright!
You should do one on the Phillies
After the world series
This was the year I became a mariners fan.
The Mariners feel like the Mets of the AL, and I'm super glad that they're seeing success after such futility over the last 20 years
Lolmariners?
Astros aren't going anywhere yet but it's nice to finally have some competition division again
Eugenio reminds me a lot of Edgar Martinez for some reason..
Just one note to offer. Houston may have swept Seattle in three games, but the fact is that Houston won those three games by a combined four runs. That tells me that a healthy Houston team is not all that far ahead of Seattle, certainly not as far ahead as far too many Houston fanatics want to believe they are. And Seattle has a payroll of $88 million going into next year. Their needs are a legitimate lefty in the back end of the bullpen, a second basemen, and a left-handed or switch hitting power bat for either left field or DH. If they jump in the Judge sweepstakes, then he takes over left field and Winker becomes your regular DH Haggerty becomes Mr Everyposition and then you have to ask whether you want Trammell, Kelenic or Haniger to play right field next year. Haniger is set for free agency if Seattle doesn't extend him in the off-season. If you don't, your choices are Haggerty, Kelenic or Trammell. Those are also your choices to play center when you want to give Julio a day off. This is all assuming that Kyle Lewis never becomes the guy he once was. He will never roam center again, but he might be able to play left one day, or he might get traded. But Seattle also has a shot at Ohtani as a free agent in 2023-2024 off-season if they don't land Judge this year. Seattle is on his short list. So the future looks bright for Seattle, and they are quickly becoming a reasonably good destination for top talent, as long as that top talent has the correct mental makeup that is able to put team first. If you are a superstar that won't bunt when you are told to, then you will not fit here. Julio has more than one sacrifice bunt this year. He has sacrifice flies. He steals bases, playing small ball when the occasion calls for it. Too many of the superstar players won't give their personal glory up for the team. Ken Griffey Jr did. He would have made 700 homers easily had he not played the team first game that Lou required of his players. That is why I was glad Soto was really not a serious target. Yes, he is a great player, but he plays the game more for him than the team.
Dude, the Astros minus Verlander held the Mariners to two runs the entire series. Their pitching was unstoppable. The Astros had a 0.83 bullpen ERA. The Mariners are nowhere close.
@@mike-0451 Hey, braindead, keep believing that and come get your rude awakening.
2024 🥶
Their playoff record sure is forgettable.
As a Mariners fan who follows their prospects, there is something I'm begging -- *BEGGING* -- someone to legitimately discuss at some point. That is...
Before Opening Day 2022, Julio was indeed the #2 prospect in baseball... *BUT* as a RF who had played a grand total of 49 professional games in CF. In addition, he was skipping AAA ... and only played 35 games in AA.
Julio was *NEVER* regarded as a CF. Kelenic had been described as "bat-first CF who will 'eventually' slide to a corner". Julio up until Spring Training 2022 had always been a RF. The most optimistic scouting report on his CF potential was in the "maybe a few games for his first couple seasons".
And -- again -- 35 games in AA and 0 in AAA.
I'm not going to take away from the #1 ranked, "80-grade" (per Fangraphs) Wander Franco because he deserves it. The note I want to bring up is that his 80-grade has been consistently defined as "SS today with 3B/ CF future and 1B/ COF bat". In other words, a defender who won't "hurt" a team defensively at SS and whallop a baseball like a 1B, LF, or RF should (math-wise, think "no worse than -5 at SS, but 110+ wRC+ as a rookie). And he absolutely showed that (average -- maybe even good -- at SS and a 116 wRC+). This is about the change in Julio that occurred in the 2021-2022 off-season.
At the end of 2021, Julio was "above-average corner glove, but has zero chance at starting up-the-middle and much higher potential than normal COF bat". He was earnestly projected to be a fantastic hitter from Day -1, but was never remotely thought of as "CF". He was "fast for COF, but not 'CF fast'". Absolutely no one would say he'd be one of the fastest in the game.
And then everything changed by Opening Day, 2022. I really -- truly -- wish I could still pull up his pre-2022 BaseballSavant reports to compare to the currents, but MiL reports are deeper to pull out. Undoubtedly, though, the change was unfathomable. He went from middling sprint speed numbers (slightly above MLB average; around average for his young age) to elite (97th percentile; 15th-ranked in MLB of the 582 listed on Baseball Savant). From a "RF-forever" teenager to "Above-average... maybe-really-good CF until... uh... his retirement?"... In a single offseason.
This doesn't happen. Never certainly in the Statcast Era and only very rarely in the "old" days we didn't have modern training and measuring methods did a player move this drastically *UP* the defense spectrum. IF OF switches are one thing (wildly different skills), but the fundamental skills within those spectra are almost entirely defined by near-MLB.
Then there was Julio. He changed from #2-prospect-in-all-of-baseball-level RF (because of his bat and bat alone) and then added to his defense and speed skill enough to make him an above-average CF.
From there, I've been trying to ask of those who know more than I do: "What would Julio's prospect grade had been if he'd actually been as good as he was on Opening Day 2022?" Because... well... he wasn't as good. He was certainly not "bad". He wasn't even so "low" ranked as "very good". Fangraphs had him as a 65-grade RF prospect and ranked him #3 in their Top-100 2022 Graduates and (direct quote from FanGraphs 'The Board' report on him) "... the highest-ranked corner bat on [the] list".
From there, I have two closing statements:
1. If Julio had been a CF all along, I have no doubts that he'd have been regarded a "super prospect". Maybe not quite Wander Franco, but would have indeed been beaten Rutschman in the prospect rankings
2. His example is a major piece of evidence that athleticism (notably sprint speed and OF defense) is a teachable skill and not an inherent, 100%-locked-in-at-birth "talent".
I was at the fire alarms game behind first base
Are the long contracts worth the risk though? Like Julio looks great but I mean look at how the Tatis Jr contract looks right now.
But at the same time, look at the Braves. They may have lost in the ALDS, but they've locked up some great talent long term and it started with Acuña. He may have had injury problems, but he's worth it.
One stat I love from this season is that Luis Torrens became the first position player to get a pitching win in Mariners history!
Mariners fans got something special. Tbh you guys played the Astros the edge than anyone in the playoffs.
14:19 Bo Bichette faking being hurt to avoid the blame still annoys me. OWN IT.
Bo Bitch-ette
Saw this Mariners team come play the White Sox in April, Robbie Ray took the L in probably the craziest rain game I’ve ever been to
That entire series was jank. The wind made like five guys lose and drop flyballs in the other games.
If the Astros didn't exist I think the Seattle would have made the world series, they could've best just about anyone else
I'd say we are arguably the 3rd or 4th best team in the league; We do best against the better teams, so that helps out a lot
How can you not love Seattle?
only thing that you remember is yordan s 3 run walk off......nightmare for seattle