Hok Talk: I was wrong about Dayton Moore

Photo by John Sleezer/Getty Images Dayton Moore shares a word with Alex Gordon before a game in 2019By now, many of you will have heard the short, strange, sad saga of Mariners Club President Kevin Mather. If you haven’t, our Mariners-focused sister site, Lookout Landing, has covered the topic pretty extensively. The short version is that Mather said out loud the quiet part that many avid fans of baseball have noted for a long time. He talked about service time manipulation for top prospects. He complained about non-white players indiscriminately. He chortled at the misfortune of free agents who are just trying to find jobs this off-season while more or less admitting that despite their complaints to the contrary, the Mariners were in perfectly good financial standing following the pandemic-shortened 2020 season.

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