Seattle Mariners: The sentimental fan and strategic fan’s view on signing Taijuan Walker
The Answer
Dipoto needs more time to see what he has with the M’s talented young players. This takes time, and proper evaluation in larger sample sizes than the M’s have seen so far. We’ve waited this long, and we need to let the strategy play out.
Despite the threats that social media warriors make about losing interest in the M’s, at the end of the day, Emerald City’s baseball team won’t be abandoned. Once the Mariners start winning, the fans will return in droves.
What’s interesting is that the Mariners never really bottomed out. Well, sort of, but not entirely. Dipoto realized he didn’t have a winning hand before they hit rock bottom and tore it all down.
Seattle is about to enter the next exciting phase of its rebuild, and that’s the impact of a top-tier farm system coming to fruition. This injection of young talent will serve the Seattle Mariners well and hopefully results in more wins than losses. So the answer on Walker is not this time. Sentimental fans, the Seattle Mariners’ young arms will provide plenty of reasons to forget about bringing Walker back to the team.
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