The Mariners had a chance to do something special in 2023 but came up short.
The article was written by Alden Gonzalez of ESPN and included a line from Hernandez about his time with the Seattle Mariners in 2023.
Hernandez said that the 2023 M's were a really good and really talented team, but he also said that they were missing something. He said he felt that team played as individuals and not as a group. The M's went 88-74 and missed the playoffs on the second to last day of the season.What's so disappointing about that notion of playing as individuals is that the M's had the veteran pieces in place to make that not the case and still couldn't jive well enough.
The idea of the veteran presence is real, but the 2023 M's had enough collective veteran voices that should have been able to bring the idea of a team concept out of the roster. Kolten Wong and AJ Pollock began the year on the team and played prominent roles early. Hernandez himself was an eight-year vet who could have provided some of that leadership also. J.P. Crawford and Ty France were several-year vets that were established in Seattle.
But nothing apparently worked, at least to Hernandez's liking. And now he's one win away from a World Series with the Dodgers.
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