SEATTLE – Hours before the 161st game of another unsatisfying season, Jerry Dipoto sat on a wooden bench in the first-base dugout at T-Mobile Park. It was Sept. 28, 2024, and the Mariners were set to miss the playoffs for a second consecutive season. The club’s president of baseball operations acknowledged that “we’re having a tough time figuring out how to climb the wall from a good team to a very good team or a great team.”
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