Where do the Mariners stack up against rivals in the A.L. West after the first month?

Baseball is a long season. I know that is not news to anybody, I know. Baseball plays 162 games per season, the most out of any major sports league in all of the world. When you play that many games, you need to have a short memory. a 3-game losing streak is not the end of the world. Winning 8 in a row does not mean you are bound for the World Series. Heck, you can win 116 games in a season and not even make the World Series. (Too soon). I know, I'm sorry.

I say all of this because it is a long season. April records do not mean much in September. Yeah, you can come up short by a game or two and miss the playoffs, but more times than not, the wild card teams don't make too much noise in the playoffs (ignoring 2023). Yeah, those games in April would have gone towards that win total, but a team should not have to win 12 of their next 15 to get into the playoffs.

With all of that said, I am writing this as of April 29th. So keep that in mind when looking at the records moving forward. I am going to go in reverse order of the current American League West division standings. I do not expect this to be the final year standing at all, but the current standings are interesting and surprising.