When Jerry Dipoto latched on with the Mariners in 2015, he inherited a farm system ranked 25th in baseball by Baseball America. Following a series of drafts to restock the system followed by a clearly defined pattern of flipping low-level prospects for close-to-ready minor leaguers, there is once again a severe lack of talent spread across the M’s minor league squads. That isn’t to say there aren’t blue chip prospects in the system. Any team would be happy to flip some big-league talent Seattle’s way for the likes of Kyle Lewis, Sam Carlson, or Evan White, but after that, things drop off in a hurry.
The Mariners’ 2017 late-round draft pick successes
