New Mariners manager Scott Servais isn’t a big name, and he doesn’t have big-league managing experience, but GM Jerry Dipoto’s logic is sound.
Do you hear that noise? Probably not.
This move made hardly a peep.
A seismic hire? Not even close.
This was an 0.1 on the Richter scale.
When Mariners general manager Jerry Dipoto picked Scott Servais to be the club’s new manager Friday, the reaction wasn’t “whoa!” so much as it was “huh?” A middling catcher with no managerial experience isn’t the type to inject sudden cheer into a jaded fan base.