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Great comment, as usual from one of our Jedi Masters. :)
That was rather my point...that the Mariners keep appearing on "unlucky" leaderboards...that every year we keep doing this to ourselves as fans...I remember posting back in 2007 and 2008 how unlucky a bunch of our hitters had been. In 2004 too. We didn't have as much info as we do now to confirm just how unlucky we've been...but this is ten years of bad luck! I can't be ten years of bad luck. Something is really...REALLY wrong.
And it's bad luck in so many different forms! This most recent version, in which all of our hard hit balls are caught and all of theirs fall in, looks like bad advance scouting and outdated defensive positioning. The ongoing saga of the bad luck we keep encountering in the development of hitting prospects - the process is good...we pick the right kinds of prospects now - and yet they still fail. Over and over and OVER. No team can be THIS snake bit!
And before that...we were underperforming pythag (2002-2003). We had the talent and the offensive production, but not the wins to show for it.
We've been abused by the umpires (calling an unfair strike zone it seems).
We've had our stadium cause a run of miserable failures for right handed hitters like Adrian Beltre (who hit everywhere else he played!) and Jeff Cirillo. We've lost heart-breaking post-season series to lesser teams (2000 Yankees, e.g.) and it looked pretty convincing (they crushed us EASILY).
Time and time again, players would arrive with high hopes, fail, and then leave, and immediately succeed elsewhere.
This goes back TWENTY YEARS.
Sorry...that is not bad luck. It's bad baseball. The Mariners are a bad franchise and it continues to this day.