It isn't as easy to rag on Jerry Dipoto as it used to be. The Seattle Mariners president of baseball operations is indeed in the middle of a victory lap after being named by Baseball America as the Executive of the Year for 2025, and nobody can say he didn't earn it.
However, the only question that ever matters for any front office head is, "What's next?" And Mariners fans have never felt more urgent in asking it than right now, in the wake of a season that ended eight outs short of the franchise's first World Series.