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New Details Emerge on the Contract Situation For Seattle Mariners’ Exec Jerry Dipoto
Speaking on Seattle Sports 710 on Tuesday, Ryan Divish of the Seattle Times offered some more insight into the future of Seattle Mariners executive Jerry Dipoto. Dipoto serves as the President of Baseball Operations.
The comments were relayed over by popular M’s “X” user, @MarinerMuse:
Interesting note from the Divish interview on 710 today:
Salk asked about Jerry Dipoto’s contract, and Divish indicated that the Mariners and Dipoto agreed to some sort of short-term extension in August about 1-2 weeks before Scott Servais was fired.
Interesting note from the Divish interview on 710 today:
Salk asked about Jerry Dipoto’s contract, and Divish indicated that the Mariners and Dipoto agreed to some sort of short-term extension in August about 1-2 weeks before Scott Servais was fired.
— Mariner Muse (@MarinerMuse) November 12, 2024
Now, we don’t know the exact length of time that Dipoto was given, but it was certainly something that gave him the freedom and power to move on from Servais. The thought had been that both parties with free agents after the 2024 season and that both could be replaced after the season. Evidently, Dipoto was extended and given the control to make moves he felt were necessary. The team fired Servais and hired former M’s catcher Dan Wilson as his replacement. Seattle still missed the playoffs by 1.0 game.
Dipoto has been with the Mariners since the 2016 season and has only produced one playoff berth. It’s not for lack of trying though, as the M’s have been one of the most active teams in baseball over his tenure.
Despite the playoff berth in 2022 and a number of other “near misses,” the fanbase has grown tired of the underachieving. On a short-term deal, Dipoto likely has a sense of urgency to get things done this offseason, but the question will be if ownership green lights the kind of spending necessary to make those things happen.
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So far this offseason, we’ve learned the winners of the Gold Glove Awards, Platinum Glove Awards and Silver Slugger Awards for the 2024 season.
Those traditional awards were good to the Seattle Mariners, with catcher Cal Raleigh capturing both the Gold and Platinum Glove honors. Dylan Moore also won a Gold Glove at the utility position in the American League.
Furthermore, Raleigh is currently up for the Heart & Hustle Award, which would be another notch in his belt for a fantastic 2024 campaign that saw him hit 34 homers and drive in 100 runs.
While the traditional awards are certainly impressive, there was also a fun award that went to a Mariners player on social media.
That’s right, Randy Arozarena won the PitchingNinja Award for “most disrespectful at-bat” of the season. The “PitchingNinja” is obviously known to be pitching dominant, so for him to even acknowledge an offensive player is a shock in and of itself. It goes to show how awesome the moment for Arozarena was.
Playing against the Texas Rangers on Sept. 15, Arozarena stepped out of the box on three consecutive pitches before wailing a home run on a 3-0 count. It’s not usually advised for hitters to step out of the box and give no appearance of swinging the bat, but Arozarena was able to use it to his advantage.
Perhaps he frustrated the pitcher on the first three pitches and then baited him into throwing a cookie in pitch four.
2024 PItchingNinja Award for Most Disrespectful At-Bat. 🫣🏆
Winner: Randy Arozarena (vs. Gerson Garabito) pic.twitter.com/6q2kGpVKQC
— Rob Friedman (@PitchingNinja) November 5, 2024
Acquired from the Tampa Bay Rays in a trade deadline deal this year, Arozarena hit 20 homers and had 60 RBI this year. He also stole 20 bases.
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As Seattle Public Schools faces continued public backlash over proposed school closures, a group of parents is attempting to recall board President Liza Rankin.
In court documents filed with King County, the group argues Rankin adopted a “rushed and improper” school closure process and repeatedly failed to “provide transparency and community engagement on decisions critical to the well-being of the district.”
The parents also contend Rankin failed to uphold her duties as a school board member to adequately oversee the district and “ensure the district delivers student educational outcomes.”
“As Board President, Liza Rankin must uphold the highest standards in public office, especially in a time of urgent crisis like that which Seattle Public Schools now faces,” Ben Gitenstein, one of the petitioners, said in a statement. “Instead, Rankin has committed violations that have worsened our district’s crisis.”
“Now more than ever, it is necessary to recall Rankin in order to save our students and Seattle Public Schools from her leadership,” added Gitenstein, the parent of two SPS students and a former school board candidate.
Janai Ray, Nancy Bacon, Annie Becker, and Rebekah Binns are also named as petitioners on the recall paperwork.
Rankin was first elected to the board in 2019, and represents the northernmost parts of Seattle, including the Crown Hill, Broadview, Northgate, and Lake City neighborhoods. She was reelected for a second four-year term last fall.
A King County Superior Court judge must approve the recall before the petition can be circulated to voters. The petition would then need to get over 48,000 valid signatures from legal voters before getting on a ballot.
Gitenstein said the group isn’t planning to recall other board members “at this time.”
The recall effort comes as Washington’s largest public school system moves ahead with proposals to close four schools — a scaled down version of a previous plan that called for up to 21 schools to be shuttered next year. The board is expected to vote on a final closure plan by the end of January.
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In an interview with KUOW on Tuesday, Rankin said she stands by her actions as school board president and denied any accusations of malfeasance or wrongdoing.
“I have actually been taking it very seriously, that my duty as board president is to help ensure that we are abiding by laws and rules around compliance,” she said.
Rankin also argued the closure process hasn’t been rushed, pointing out that she was among several board members to push back on the mass closure plan first proposed in September.
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“What we received didn’t justify that level of change, and so we said ‘no thank you, please try again,’” Rankin said. “I think rushing would have been to accept it anyway, knowing that it didn’t have all the information we needed. And we definitely didn’t do that.”
This is Rankin’s second attempted recall. She and the entire board were targeted for recall in 2021, amid accusations they failed to prepare for schools to reopen during Covid. A judge later dismissed the petition.
The Seattle Seahawks come out of their bye week with one of their most important games next on the schedule.
Seattle Seahawks are in a rebuild, whether they call it that or not
The Seahawks look to keep themselves in the picture in the NFC West and avoid falling two games under .500 on Sunday when they travel to face the rival San Francisco 49ers.
It’s already evident Seattle is making changes coming off its bye, as the team released starting linebacker and leading tackler Tyrel Dodson on Monday.
Former NFL quarterback Brock Huard thinks the team has another change coming, but on the offensive side of the ball. Huard explained why he thinks the team will run more of its offense from under center rather than out of the shotgun during Blue 88 on Tuesday on Brock and Salk.
The first two reasons have to do with the talent the Seahawks will be facing this weekend.
“No. 1, when you sit in that shotgun, (pass rusher) Nick Bosa knows exactly where you are,” Huard said. “No. 2, when you have Fred Warner as a middle linebacker (on the other side) and you have tendencies behind your shotgun run game, there’s only so many things you can do out of that (and) you make life easier on that guy and you do not want to do that because he’s one of the best in the game.”
According to a report from The Athletic, the Seahawks were using the shotgun at the fourth-highest rate in the NFL at 80.4% heading into their bye week.
“I think that will change over the second half of the season,” Huard said. “It’s too much because when you get in the shotgun … it limits the amount of volume (of plays) and especially your run and play-action.”
Are the Seahawks operating out of shotgun too often?
Huard also believes that switch will be part of first-year offensive coordinator Ryan Grubb realizing the adjustments needed to succeed at the NFL level.
“I think Ryan Grubb is learning about the guys and the resources and the coaches upon coaches upon coaches that study you and figure out every one of your tendencies,” Huard said. “You gotta do a little bit more variants. I do expect more under center.”
Listen to the full conversation at this link or in the audio player in this story. Tune in to Brock and Salk weekdays from 6-10 a.m. or find the podcast on the Seattle Sports app.
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