Seattle Mariners president of baseball operations Jerry Dipoto has proven himself as a masterful drafter, and has emerged as one of the MLB's most aggresive team-builders when it comes to making trades. However, he has a significant blind spot that is hurting the Mariners once again this year.
Dipoto has seemingly no idea how to fill out the bench.
Let's go back to the beginning of the season. On Opening Day, the Mariners' bench consisted of backup catcher Mitch Garver, platoon first baseman Donovan Solano, and two utilitymen in Dylan Moore and Miles Mastrobuoni.
Theoretically, Garver would backup Cal Raleigh, Solano would platoon with Rowdy Tellez, and the utilitymen would fill in to give rest days to the rest of the team.