Jerry Dipoto

PEORIA, Ariz. -- Jerry Dipoto had to halt the interview. He couldn’t hold back the waterworks. Moments prior, sitting in a booth atop the Peoria Sports Complex for a Royals-Mariners matinee, Seattle’s president of baseball operations watched his son, Jonah, pitch a perfect eighth inning for Kansas City. With his wife, Tamie, seated to his left, Jerry stood with his trademark “scout” look -- right hand under left elbow, chin down, glasses on and biting his thumb -- but he looked far more anxious, and for good reason.

PEORIA, Ariz. — The Mariners are a better team than they were 48 hours ago, pre-Eugenio and without Winker — of that there is no question. But that’s not the most pertinent question in this season of unambiguous expectations for Seattle. This isn’t the year of “making...

General manager Jerry Dipoto said that the Seattle Mariners are still intent on adding at least one significant offensive piece to their lineup as spring training gets underway in Arizona. "We want to add some impact to our offense and believe that, minimally, we want to go get one impact...

PEORIA, Ariz. – Jerry Dipoto won’t have much time to contact copyright lawyers while trying to take and make calls with agents and opposing teams in this delayed and condensed offseason. But he might be missing out on some extra cash when someone inevitably starts printing the T-shirts.

PEORIA, Ariz. — Jerry Dipoto won’t have much time to contact copyright lawyers while trying to take and make calls with agents and opposing teams in this delayed and condensed offseason. But he might be missing out on some extra cash when someone inevitably starts printing the T-shirts.

After 99 excruciating days of waiting and wondering when or if it would return, watching the back and forth of the pugilistic negotiations between the Major League Baseball owners and the MLB Players Association play out on social media, one of the most anticipated seasons in recent Mariners history can restart with the same sense of urgency that was felt when the 2021 season ended.

A few weeks ago at the Major League Baseball general managers meetings, the company line being used by team executives when it came to their offseason thinking and planning was “business as usual.”. It didn’t matter that the collective bargaining agreement between owners and the MLB Players Association was expiring...