So it begins, The official Hot Stove League Thread 2024-25 Offseason

[D-train]

They finished 20-14 in 2020 and didn't other to improve the team because they "Weren't ready yet" Now they don't need to make moves because they finished 21-13.

[Donn Beach]

They picked up Randy Arozarena at the deadline, that to them and is like an off season move, the years of control

[GL_Storm]

Maybe? Of course that's what they are counting on, I pointed that out when the off season began. Dipoto does not see the issues you guys do

. Maybe they're counting on full seasons of Randy Arozarena and Victor Robles. And a much better season from Julio Rodríguez. Oh, and bounce-back seasons from Garver and J.P. Crawford. There's a new manager in Dan Wilson and they finished 21-13 after he took over late in the season

Yep just need the miracle health of the Rotation to continue, hope Robles isn't a fluke, hope Garver at 33 yo bounces back from a complete implosion playing in a park that he has a .128 career BA, hope Randy's down year wasn't the beginning of a decline, hope Julio bounces back, Hope JP bounces back, hope Raley doesn't begin to regress now that he is over 30. Hope they can piece a Bull pen together. Hope totally unproved internal options can man 3B and 2B and hope Haniger can get off his Death bad and go back in time about 5 years.

World Series guaranteed!

[D-train]

Love how they always announce every detail of player contracts but never FOs I guess they are above the peon players....

Mariners: Jerry Dipoto has been extended twice since the M’s first hired him in September 2015, and his last extension in September 2021 was a multi-year deal of unspecified length. It is therefore possible this could be Dipoto’s final season under contract as Seattle’s president of baseball operations, unless another extension has been signed in the last three-plus years. Despite four straight seasons of 85 or more wins, the Mariners reached the playoffs just once in that span, as a lack of hitting has hampered the team over the last two years in particular. It remains to be seen if ownership is okay with just being competitive (or, as Dipoto infamously put it, winning “54 percent of the time“) or if any impatience is growing over the Mariners’ difficulty in truly breaking through as a contender. The Mariners were sparked to a 21-13 record down the stretch after manager Dan Wilson was hired last August, so it could be that the managerial change (and a change of hitting coaches) is what was needed to get the M’s back on track, but Dipoto and Wilson could both face pressure if Seattle again falls short of postseason baseball.

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2024/12/ ... ce=twitter

[Pharmabro]

Another day, another day of nothing.

52 days until game 1 of ST

[AZOldDawg]

Another day, another day of nothing.

Guessing Stanton put super glue on Jerry’s thumb

[bpj]

Hopefully it's time to make Jerry stand by his product.

Their Win totals have gone down three years in a row now because Jerry always thinks they're "good enough", meanwhile the competition keeps trying to improve.

They won 85 games last year after "stepping back" after an 89 Win season in 2018 so they could be better by 2021.

Pathetic.

[Donn Beach]

Love how they always announce every detail of player contracts but never FOs I guess they are above the peon players....

Mariners: Jerry Dipoto has been extended twice since the M’s first hired him in September 2015, and his last extension in September 2021 was a multi-year deal of unspecified length. It is therefore possible this could be Dipoto’s final season under contract as Seattle’s president of baseball operations, unless another extension has been signed in the last three-plus years. Despite four straight seasons of 85 or more wins, the Mariners reached the playoffs just once in that span, as a lack of hitting has hampered the team over the last two years in particular. It remains to be seen if ownership is okay with just being competitive (or, as Dipoto infamously put it, winning “54 percent of the time“) or if any impatience is growing over the Mariners’ difficulty in truly breaking through as a contender. The Mariners were sparked to a 21-13 record down the stretch after manager Dan Wilson was hired last August, so it could be that the managerial change (and a change of hitting coaches) is what was needed to get the M’s back on track, but Dipoto and Wilson could both face pressure if Seattle again falls short of postseason baseball.

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2024/12/ ... ce=twitter

They just extended him again but yeah it's murky

https://www.si.com/mlb/mariners/news/ne ... ttle-times

[D-train]

I love the line in the article about it not being for lack of trying. Quantity does not equal quality

[D-train]

I put a fascinating Obit for Lenny Randle in the RIP Charlie Maxwell thread.