WILL IT WORK?

SEATTLE Mariners (Baseball team); BASEBALL playoffs; MENTAL health of athletes; SEGURA, Jean; SLEEP; DATA analysis; DIPOTO, Jerry, 1968-; BASEBALL teams; HISTORY; HISTORY of baseball

The article discusses the Seattle Mariners Major League Baseball team's plan to end the longest playoff drought in the history of professional sports in 2018, and it mentions how the baseball team is utilizing mental coaches, sleep specialists, and data analysts to help the franchise's players. It states that the Mariners have not participated in the playoffs since 2001. General Manager Jerry Dipoto and players such as Jean Segura and Dee Gordon are assessed.