The Seattle Times · 21m
Mariners must trade a starting pitcher for an impact position player
On Sept. 28, Mariners president of baseball operations Jerry Dipoto faced a semicircle of media members, recorders and cameras inside T-Mobile Park’s press box. On the wall behind him, Dipoto was flanked by life-size photographs of Ichiro, Edgar Martinez and Julio Rodríguez — not-so-subtle reminders of this franchise’s past and present firepower.
But ironically, the 2026 Mariners lacked big bats — ranking 27th out of 30 MLB teams in OPS (.693), 28th in runs (664), 28th in hits (1,263) and 29th in batting average (.233).
They did have a problematic overflow of starting pitchers.