Led most visibly by ESPN.com’s fantasy baseball guru, Eric Karabell, the Seattle Mariners have become this year’s sexy Spring Training pick to reach the playoffs. In a piece written last week, Karabell laid out the reasons Seattle could be this year’s Baltimore or Oakland and, in truth, he simply expressed what a number of people have said to me as well. The Mariners, you will hear, will score a lot more runs this year because they’ve acquired legitimate power threats in Kendrys Morales and Michael Morse. Additionally – and I swear you’re going to read this in every Seattle preview as if it’s a breathless revelation – the Mariners have moved in the fences at Safeco! (Sometimes I think people forget that, unlike the domes in America’s newest stadiums, the fences aren’t going to be retractable. They will also be closer when opposing teams are on offense as well.)