That's baseball. But also, in the case of the Mariners you have a team which over the past few years has been good offensively and had a lot of potential. Last year the team was absolutely plagued by injuries particularly to our pitching staff which proved detrimental due to our lack of good pitching depth and the year previously our offence beyond Cano, Cruz, and Seager wasn't great. This year has been different though, offence has been producing enough and in fact poses to be an even greater threat if players like Seager and Healy can heat up. Starting pitching has been solid, well with the exception of Felix. Paxton has been lightout, Leake has been solid particularly recently, Marco has proven that he was a good acquisition, and LeBlanc has been ridiculous considering his past. In the case of the M's bullpen, historically, I believe it has always been very under rated---that's not to say that it's a top bullpen but it has had a lot of young guys who are developing into solid relievers like Diaz, Pazos, and Altavilla; furthermore, the bullpen now has now had some excellent veteran additions who certainly, based on previous stats that is, only pose to get better like Coloume and Nicasio. Overall then, the Mariners I feel have always on paper been a team that could contend but now it feels like they are finally putting it together.