Seattle Mariners spring reports

TheSportsNotebook’s spring training tour of the major leagues continues today with a stop in on the Seattle Mariners. It’s been hard times in the Pacific Northwest. They haven’t made the playoffs since their 116-win campaign of 2001, and had hard-luck misses the following two years, being left out with 93 wins. Over the last eight years, Seattle’s been on the wrong side of .500 six times and most of them have been pretty ugly, including last year’s 67-95 campaign. TheSportsNotebook looks at the 2012 Mariners with an eye on the usual measuring sticks of the ability to get on base, power, starting pitching and relief pitching.