General Manager Jerry Dipoto has hinted that he won’t be quiet this off-season. With the Texas Rangers as likely favorites to win the AL West again next year and the Wild Card up for grabs by at least a half dozen teams, the roster the Mariners put out in 2016 just won’t cut it.
Dipoto’s moves show that he his trying to create space on the forty-man roster in order for the Mariners to move up in the world.
Aside from the Furbush and Weber moves, the Mariners also out-righted the shameful reject, Steve Clevenger and and the RHP and more respected, Ryan Cook.