The Latest Breaking News from Robbie Ray

SEATTLE — The tanking team vs. the sinking team.

The Mariners know how to undercut expectations with the best of them. It's become something of an art form, breaking hearts every time they're touted as a team to reckon with.

This feels different from before, doesn't it?

No early deficit followed by a crazy comeback?

Listen to that echoing boom in a storm.

White Sox lefty Dallas Keuchel was scheduled to oppose Mariners lefty Robbie Ray

MINNEAPOLIS — That expected regression from the Mariners’ supposedly unsustainable success in one-run games last season?

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — When spring training began last season, the computer models at Baseball Prospectus put Atlanta’s odds of winning the National League East at 20-to-1. Eight months later, the Braves were World Series champions. That’s not a knock on analytics, it’s a nod to unpredictability.

The Dodgers are as dangerous ever but will the Blue Jays emerge from the stacked AL East. Our team of writers have their say