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M's have huge hill to climb

By Rob Neyer
ESPN Insider

Thursday, December 16, 2004

How bad were Seattle's hitters in 2004? In the 14-team American League, the Mariners finished 10th in on-base percentage, 14th in slugging percentage, 14th in home runs, and (here's the killer ...) 14th in runs scored. You can talk about pitching all you want, but if you're last in scoring you're probably going to lose a lot of games, and the Mariners lost 99 games in 2004. Which was 30 more than the Mariners lost in 2003. But did they lose all those games solely because the hitters (as ...

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