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I don't believe I have, at any point, suggested that the Mariners' problems are 100% the result of poor defensive positioning.
I am, however, going to suggest that their problems have a lot more to do with a combination of bad advance scouting (failing to give their players a solid game plan form which they can base an attack), bad defensive positioning (failing to maximize their chance to be "lucky" on specific types of balls in play), bad coaching (failing to get the most of their talent in the strict, objective sense), and bad management (failure to deploy assets and manage personalities in a way that will generate a positive outcome).
And if you're going to blame the climate so effortlessly for the problem, might I suggest you look at the pitching side? They play in the same climate. They certainly have NOT had the same run of epid GOOD luck that the offense has had on the bad side. In fact, the same data I used in the above "dumb analysis" shows no real trend in Mariner pitchers' real world results relative to their expected results beyond a small park factor. Yes, it would be dumb to assume the park and its' weather played zero role...but the magnitudes don't match, Rob.
Rather than assuming I'm dumb...maybe you could try raising your concern for my arguments in the form of a question...posing an opportunity for an information exchange, rather than blasting at me that I'm an idiot.