Dipoto’s “State of the Mariners” presentation at Thursday’s pre-spring training luncheon was filled with expressions of his faith. He said the Mariners are better off, in the big picture, going with the starting pitchers on hand than dipping into the free-agent market.
The Mariners, it seems, are asking you to believe, to trust, to have faith — at a time when all of those qualities are rightfully in short supply.
To believe in the ballclub heading into the 2018 season, despite the regression of last season and what appears to much of the outside world to be a gaping hole in its rotation.