Going to try my hand at a daily playthrough of the Seattle Mariners 2021 season... where I've made, like, 15 trades before advancing a single day. So, realism may not be at a premium.
March 31st, 2021
Met with John today, he is pushing the usual, “stay close to an even record”, bit… our aim here, however, is the playoffs – I mean I didn’t spend the last hour dinking around with the trade AI for nothing, right?
New faces…
SP Josh Lindblom
1B Bobby Dalbec
SP Matt Peacock
SP Matt Manning
2B David Fletcher (will likely slot in at SS for us)
C Austin Hedges
LF Joc Pederson
2B Kolten Wong
SP Aaron Sanchez
SP Matthew Boyd
And
me (Morgan, Red, the voice of God, whatever)... Seattle's new VP of Baseball Operations, General Manager, and whatever else I want to dig into
The biggest names I’ve shipped out so far are Pax, Seager, and JP Crawford… Haniger & the newly acquired Joc Pederson probably shouldn't get too comfortable either...
Unlike John, who didn’t even mention all my awesome moves, the baseball punditry seems to be picking up what I’m putting down – they’ve penciled us in as the likely AL West winner, and, if I’m being honest, I think they’re being a bit conservative there. We’re coming for the crown. So, get yourself out to Vegas and book it.
Next up:
Opening Day or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Grind...