How Mariners might benefit from Jason Kanzler’s coding background

New Mariners manager Jason Kanzler described himself as someone who likes the learn. That was his reasoning, at least, for teaching himself how to write code, a skill he used to build apps while he was a coach with the Houston Astros, in addition to building other publicly available apps.

“Yeah, I have coded in the past, but I think that’s probably done now,” he said, smiling.

The 36-year-old Kanzler might be the only major league manager who can carry on a coherent conversation with an analyst from his team’s research and development department as comfortably as he can with an established big-league player.

“I really like and value that I’m able to have conversations with a wide variety of…