SEATTLE -- Jerry Dipoto couldn’t help himself at multiple passes on Thursday morning, succumbing to tears when discussing the Mariners’ heart-wrenching finish to the 2025 season just three days earlier.

“I can’t tell you how many times I’ve cried the past few days,” Seattle’s president of baseball operations said.

Dipoto was flanked by general manager Justin Hollander and manager Dan Wilson in separate interview sessions over a 30-minute period at T-Mobile Park -- all of whom discussed what went right and wrong this year, in the wake of Seattle’s loss in Toronto in Game 7 of the American League Championship Series.

There was also the natural -- and painful -- reflection on the decision to go with Eduard Bazardo in what wound up being the series-defining moment, when the right-hander

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