SEATTLE -- The Mariners completed one of their better seasons in franchise history Sunday, finishing with the sixth-most wins in the team's 42-year history. Yet a frustrating second-half slide and missed playoff opportunity raises a multitude of offseason questions.
As manager Scott Servais summarized: "We did a lot of good things. We didn't do enough."
Here are five of the bigger issues facing general manager Jerry Dipoto and his staff as they contemplate what to do now with a club that went 89-73, but was still nine games behind the A's for the American League's No. 2 Wild Card berth.