It’s easy to joke about Seattle Mariners general manager Jerry Dipoto continuing to make trades even from a hospital bed at MLB’s winter meetings in Las Vegas. His assistant GM even claimed to have photographic proof of this.
But the blood clots Dipoto said that doctors discovered in his lungs are certainly no joke. A pulmonary embolism like that can be fatal and the softer, slower tone of his voice while talking over the phone on MLB Network’s “MLB Now” on Tuesday indicated that he understands the gravity of the situation.
“Doing better, doing better,” Dipoto said a few days after being released from the hospital and returning to Seattle.