Welcome back to FanPost Friday. I have hemmed and hawed in this space for months now about ways to potentially fix the deeply flawed 2024 Seattle Mariners. In brutally inept, insensitive, and honestly rather despicable fashion, the Mariners took the most desperate and cowardly route and fired Manager Scott Servais, who is the second-most winning manager in franchise history and helped lead the team to ending the 21-year-old playoff drought in 2022.
If you’ve been reading LL for a long time, or are just an analytics-savvy baseball fan, you know that managers have a nearly impossible to quantify impact on the outcomes of games in this modern age.