This week the Seattle Mariners along
with all the other major league teams are in Florida for the winter meetings.
The Mariners have much of their
staff including general manager Jerry Dipoto and manager Scott Servais. They
each had press conferences over the state of the Mariners including the signing
of Dee Gordon. Dipoto mentioned the off-season training of Felix Hernandez
stating he is involved in flexibility for his shoulder and that he has pride to
be the King that we all know. Servais talked some about Cano and his off-season
training because of his lower body along with that he likes the everyday lineup
pretty well.
The Mariners so far during the
winter meetings have signed several minor league players who will probably play
in Tacoma and have the depth in case of injuries. Dipoto is leaning toward
going after starting pitching however would like to add an arm to the bullpen
as well.
We all know that Ohtani signed with
the Angels however he looks like he may need to have surgery. The thought could
be Tommy Joh so it is a wonder if the Mariners bit the bullet by not signing
him. Of course only time will tell. It is a wonder how much the teams knew
about his health. I am sure they had doctors checking him over. It depends
though on his agent how much information was given out.
It will be interesting to see if the
Mariners will make a trade or a significant signing this week or this is just
where they are building up into getting the right guy. It would be nice for us
to hear a significant signing or trade regarding a pitcher to ease us going
into Christmas. I hope we don’t have to wait until next year. So here we go M’s.
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