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Jerry Dipoto on Mariners’ spending: ‘We’re doing it a different way’
Commentary: Have Mariners kept pace with AL West foes this offseason?
Mariners operating with ‘finite shopping list’ at this point in MLB offseason
Mariners finalizing trade for Brewers’ second baseman Kolten Wong
Names to watch as Mariners search for outfield help
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Commentary: Mariners sat out MLB’s free-agent frenzy, and now must deal with fallout

UPDATED: Sat., Dec. 17, 2022

SEATTLE – Back in 1990, San Francisco Giants general manager Al Rosen raged that MLB was headed for “Armageddon” based on the outrageous free-agent contracts being handed out.

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Jerry Dipoto on Mariners’ spending: ‘We’re doing it a different way’

UPDATED: Fri., Dec. 9, 2022

SAN DIEGO – For front-office executives and anyone in the upper levels of an organization, the subject of player payroll has become baseball’s version of the “third rail.”

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Commentary: Have Mariners kept pace with AL West foes this offseason?

UPDATED: Thu., Dec. 8, 2022

SAN DIEGO – The Texas Rangers hired a manager, Bruce Bochy, with three World Series titles and a burning desire for more. Then they signed All-World pitcher Jacob deGrom. The Los Angeles Angels have been steadily adding pieces this offseason in an attempt to build a team worthy of Mike Trout and Shohei Ohtani

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Mariners operating with ‘finite shopping list’ at this point in MLB offseason

UPDATED: Tue., Dec. 6, 2022

SAN DIEGO – As the first day of the Major League Baseball winter meetings wound down and the lobby bar of the Manchester Grand Hyatt began to fill with people associated with the national pastime in some way, Mariners president of baseball operations Jerry Dipoto and first-year general manager Justin Hollander met with the local media to wrap up what was an uneventful but typical first day of the offseason gathering.

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Mariners finalizing trade for Brewers’ second baseman Kolten Wong

UPDATED: Fri., Dec. 2, 2022

SEATTLE – With one somewhat expected transaction, the Mariners addressed their need at second base while also cleaning up their roster in terms of positional fit and clubhouse chemistry.

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Names to watch as Mariners search for outfield help

UPDATED: Tue., Nov. 22, 2022

This much is certain for the Mariners’ outfield as the team progresses through the offseason and toward spring training for the much-anticipated 2023 season: Julio Rodriguez is the everyday starting center fielder, and Teoscar Hernandez will be in the lineup on a near daily basis, playing one of the corner-outfield spots.

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Mariners trade Kyle Lewis to Diamondbacks for Cooper Hummel

UPDATED: Thu., Nov. 17, 2022

SEATTLE – For an all-too-brief period of baseball, roughly two months of MLB games, Kyle Lewis represented all that the Mariners could be in the future as a foundational player for the team’s rebuild toward sustained success.

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Commentary: Why the Mariners’ trade for Teoscar Hernandez is a short-term home run

UPDATED: Thu., Nov. 17, 2022

The late Roland Hemond, a legendary and longtime general manager, used to say the trades that worried him the most were the ones in which he was lavished with immediate praise for having made a one-sided deal.

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Mariners acquire former All-Star outfielder Teoscar Hernandez

UPDATED: Wed., Nov. 16, 2022

SEATTLE – The Mariners started to address the glaring need of adding impact hitters to their 2023 lineup with the first of what is expected to be multiple moves this offseason.

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Mariners not expected to extend qualifying offer to Mitch Haniger

UPDATED: Tue., Nov. 8, 2022

LAS VEGAS – The Mariners have opted against the possibility of paying Mitch Haniger a salary of $19.65 million for only next season. But they haven’t ruled out the possibility of paying the veteran outfielder a lower salary over multiple seasons.

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Commentary: Have the Mariners closed the gap on the Astros? It may not matter

UPDATED: Thu., Oct. 27, 2022

SEATTLE – The Houston Astros are back in the World Series for the fourth time in the past six years, which to many Mariners fans might be only slight less distressing than having the similarly loathed Yankees represent the American League.

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Commentary: 2022 has been the year of Geno in Seattle sports

UPDATED: Fri., Oct. 21, 2022

This is the uplifting story of Geno, who began his Seattle season as an afterthought and segued into a huge contributor to unexpected success.

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