Your most surprising good and bad Mariner seasons of all time

[DavidGee24]

I'll go first.

MOST SURPRISING GOOD SEASON: A-Rod in 1996. We all knew then he was going to be great, but his two cups of coffee in 1994 and 1995 were so-so and he rode the bench in the 1995 playoffs, so it was a total shock that in his first full season in 1996 he hit .358 with 36 home runs, 54 doubles, scored 141 runs, had a WAR of 9.4, and got completely screwed out of an MVP that inexplicably went to Juan Gonzalez. He not only was ahead of Junior at that age but WAY ahead, and I don't think any of us saw that coming.

MOST SURPRISING BAD SEASON: I'm going to go with Kevin Mitchell. He had that huge year for the Giants in 1989, hit 62 more home runs in 253 games in 1990 - 1991, so we traded Bill Swift, Mike Jackson and Dave Burba for him, and in 99 games for us in 1992 he hit nine home runs and had a WAR of 0.3. That's it. Now, where Mitchell separates himself from someone like Jesse Winker is that not only did he do this in the Kingdome days, but then in 1993 and 1994 for the Reds he put up a combined OPS of well over 1.000. How freaky is THAT? He Beltre'd us before Beltreing was a thing.

[TLO Idaho]

1995 refuse to lose. 2001 /116 wins and nothing to show for it, 2 great years.

[Donn Beach]

Got a baseball team to show for it terms of 1995

[Sibelius Hindemith]

Most surprising good season has to be when the Mariners signed little known Jack Perconte in 1984 to be the starting 2B when he had only 314 PAs over 4 years prior with a .610 OPS. Who knew he was going to go off with a .294 BA and .704 OPS while stealing 29 bases on 35 attempts in Seattle? Just an amazing season.