Wilson was over matched as the interim and still is.

[Michael K.]

I follow this guy that calls himself UW Dawg House. I don't always agree with everything he posts, but I sure agree with this one.

Hiring Wilson without any kind of a managerial hiring process was pure Seattle Mariners, and now we are paying for it. Wilson was not and is not ready to manage a playoff contending MLB team. I am sick of caring about it, which is why I usually don't watch.

The Seattle Mariners currently have a Dan Wilson problem. The Mariners are 10-14 on the season as manager Dan Wilson continues to blow games after another with horrible managing.

Wilson when he doesn’t have a stacked roster like he had the final two months of 2025 is often exposed. Wilson continues to make the same mistakes with pinch hitting and his bullpen usage is downright terrible.

The Mariners lost another game they had no business losing. Having your offense go 1 for 12 with runners in scoring position will do that. Having your starting pitcher give up three home runs will also do that. Also having a manager be a horrific in game manager will also do that. Wilson continues to blink first in the managerial game of chicken.

The word is out on Wilson, bring in a left handed reliever as soon as possible and Wilson will pull the Mariners hottest hitter in Luke Raley for their worst hitter in Rob Refsnyder.

Three times in the past week opposing managers have put in a left handed reliever to face Raley in the 6th inning then that spot came up in a crucial at bat in the 8th.

In a 3-3 game with nobody on base and 1 out in the 6th Wilson pulls Raley for Refsnyder who of course struck out . Then
in the 8th trailing 6-3 with second and third with two outs Refsnyder not Raley was the tying run at the plate. He then flew out as Wilson was outsmarted again.

I’m getting tired of talking about Dan Wilson. We all see it, we all know he’s in over his head. He’s a 1995 nostalgic mascot for the hotdogs from heaven fans and nothing more.

I don’t have the energy to go into pitching Casey Legumina in a tied game as he’s the worst reliever I’ve seen and has been for two years now.
Those in denial on Dan Wilson being a bad manager are purely based on sentimental emotion.

Anyone who watches this team daily like I do or a good portion of this page does knows Wilson is completely in over his head.

This division is bad but I’d rather have a manager who can get the most out of this roster unlike Wilson.

You don’t have to like me or my work to recognize that Wilson is in over his head. #fblifestyle #mariners #seattle

You don't hire a guy to cut his teeth on a playoff contender. Which tells me Jerry is either a fucking dumbass, or he didn't anticipate having a playoff contender. Right now? He doesn't.

[Donn Beach]

You may not like it or agree with it but I don't see it as Wilson being over matched or over his head. He's using the pieces Dipoto gave him the way dipoto intends them to be used. There's a plan to how dipoto built the roster and Wilson is following it. It's why Diooto gave Refsnyder $6 mil. Dipoto is going to fire Wilson for following the plan dipoto gave him?

[Donn Beach]

I Remember Servais leaving Dae-ho Lee in the game to bat against a right handed reliever. Game winning home run, that was against the As I believe. Servais after the game saying he decided to go with his gut instead of the platoon, Servais got fired

[Donn Beach]

Looking back, I don't think Servais was the slave to strict platooning Wilson is. Have they gone even more strictly analytical with Wilson?

After beating the As on a pair of Lee home runs. Lee was the right handed platoon partner for Adam Lind. Lind had been struggling

“We’ll get back to playing the numbers a little bit,” Servais said. “Yesterday was a great day for him. We had a hunch and we rode the hunch and it worked out great. But we’ll get back to playing the regular lineup.”

Servais shrugged off a question about Lee’s splits in Japan or Korea against right-handed pitchers and if they were good enough to keep him in the lineup.

“I don’t know,” Servais said. “I do know that Adam Lind has quite a track record in our league of hitting right-handed pitching. So that’s what we’ll stay with. Adam is swinging the bat a little bit better over the last week to 10 days. His numbers still aren’t where they want them to be yet. But I’m not that concerned with where he’s going to be. You’ve got to keep him playing. We’ll stay with the original plan. The original plan, quite frankly, is working out ok.”

Servais’ decision to keep Lee in the lineup when lefty Sean Manaea was lifted from the game and letting him hit against right-handed relievers worked out well. The decision wasn’t made only by gut feeling.

“Once the game starts that’s kind of where the feel comes in,” he said. “That’s from years of playing, years of watching the game at this level. Yesterday was one of those games. It was kind of more of a feel moment. I’m not really into that too much. There was also data and numbers tied behind the decisions that were made, based on who the pitcher was and what Dae-Ho had done. If you remember, Dae-Ho had hit a double off of Axford in spring training. He pinch hit against him in Seattle. What Axford throws in certain counts, if we could get into those counts, it might work out in our favor. And it did. So there was some thought that went into it. It wasn’t just, ‘oh let’s run him out there again.’ There was a lot of thought that went into it.”

There is a process when acting on hunches and gut feelings.

“I think you have to,” Servais said. “He could have popped the ball up yesterday, but I still think it was the right thing to do at that point.”

[D-train]

I Remember Servais leaving Dae-ho Lee in the game to bat against a right handed reliever. Game winning home run, that was against the As I believe. Servais after the game saying he decided to go with his gut instead of the platoon, Servais got fired

SS got fired 8 years after that HR. I agree that idiot Jerry is mandating the PH "strategy"

[DavidGee24]

You may not like it or agree with it but I don't see it as Wilson being over matched or over his head. He's using the pieces Dipoto gave him the way dipoto intends them to be used. There's a plan to how dipoto built the roster and Wilson is following it. It's why Diooto gave Refsnyder $6 mil. Dipoto is going to fire Wilson for following the plan dipoto gave him?

Man, you always blindly agree with management, although it's also you being contrarian because you can't help yourself.

Whether that's the plan or not is irrelevant, the manager has to go with what's going to give the team the best chance to win, not what he thinks the GM would want to do. Now, if that's what Wilson is doing then he's just a yes-man and that by itself puts him in over his head.

Pinch-hitters are 0-18 this season and 1-11 in second ABs. That's 1-29 because of Wilson's dumb decisions.

Argument over.

[Donn Beach]

You may not like it or agree with it but I don't see it as Wilson being over matched or over his head. He's using the pieces Dipoto gave him the way dipoto intends them to be used. There's a plan to how dipoto built the roster and Wilson is following it. It's why Diooto gave Refsnyder $6 mil. Dipoto is going to fire Wilson for following the plan dipoto gave him?

Man, you always blindly agree with management, although it's also you being contrarian because you can't help yourself.

Whether that's the plan or not is irrelevant, the manager has to go with what's going to give the team the best chance to win, not what he thinks the GM would want to do. Now, if that's what Wilson is doing then he's just a yes-man and that by itself puts him in over his head.

Pinch-hitters are 0-18 this season and 1-11 in second ABs. That's 1-29 because of Wilson's dumb decisions.

Argument over.

I'm not agreeing with it and it's not an argument. I'm saying its not about Wilson being over his head. All this stuff has been gone over before the game. They've decided to stick with their platoons. All these match-ups are planned for.

[DavidGee24]

You may not like it or agree with it but I don't see it as Wilson being over matched or over his head. He's using the pieces Dipoto gave him the way dipoto intends them to be used. There's a plan to how dipoto built the roster and Wilson is following it. It's why Diooto gave Refsnyder $6 mil. Dipoto is going to fire Wilson for following the plan dipoto gave him?

Man, you always blindly agree with management, although it's also you being contrarian because you can't help yourself.

Whether that's the plan or not is irrelevant, the manager has to go with what's going to give the team the best chance to win, not what he thinks the GM would want to do. Now, if that's what Wilson is doing then he's just a yes-man and that by itself puts him in over his head.

Pinch-hitters are 0-18 this season and 1-11 in second ABs. That's 1-29 because of Wilson's dumb decisions.

Argument over.

I'm not agreeing with it and it's not an argument. I'm saying its not about Wilson being over his head. All this stuff has been gone over before the game. They've decided to stick with their platoons. All these match-ups are planned for.

And there's more classic DB. We're talking about whether the team is managed the right way or the wrong way and your two cents is "That's the way he manages". No shit, Columbo. Good old DB providing us with the answers that everyone already knew to the questions that nobody asked.

[Donn Beach]

Yeah, I believe he's managing the team the way dipoto intends him to manage it. I don't see the hard part in that really

[D-train]

Yeah, I believe he's managing the team the way dipoto intends him to manage it. I don't see the hard part in that really

Yeah its not hard so why do you feel the need to tell us the sun is hot and water is wet instead of giving your opinion on whether or not it is a good or bad strategy?