The Mariners hosted their annual pre-spring training media luncheon this year, conveniently streamed on Mariners dot com for those of us not in attendance. The lineup of speakers was as follows:
- Kolten Wong, newly-acquired Mariners second baseman;
- Justin Toole, new Director of Player Development;
- Gregg Greene, VP of Marketing;
- Nova Newcomer, Director of Community Relations, and the team from EL1 Sports;
- Chris Marinak, Chief Operations and Strategy Manager, MLB;
- Jerry Dipoto and Justin Hollander, you know them;
- Scott Servais, you know him too;
- Cal Raleigh, Big Dumper;
- Teoscar Hernández, newly-acquired Mariners outfielder
We’ll be splitting this into two parts: the business side and the player/personnel side, because otherwise this would be an unreadable behemoth.