SEATTLE -- Jerry Dipoto has built a reputation since his arrival in Seattle as a general manager willing to wheel and deal away many of the Mariners' better prospects in the multitude of trades made to improve the Major League club.
But Dipoto, on this week's episode of The Wheelhouse podcast that was released on Thursday, insisted he does indeed place great value on young talent and expects that trend to change now that he's been able to retool the big league roster with a youth movement that should sustain itself for the next few years.
The Mariners have gone from the oldest roster in baseball three years ago to a club that will have only two position starters older than 30 next year in Nelson Cruz and Robinson Cano.