It’s easy to understand the frustrations of Seattle Mariners fans as we enter a long offseason.

1) M’s fans are upset because they support the only team in baseball not to appear in the World Series.

2) M’s fans are upset that the current ownership group doesn’t seem to care about this fact and won’t go out of their way to change it.

Mariners fans want to see ownership fully invested in the roster so they can take advantage of this historically good pitching staff and actually compete in the World Series.

While the M’s have been wasted on Julio Rodriguez, Luis Castillo and Robbie Ray in recent years, they have seemingly forced the organization to play with one hand tied behind its back. The ownership group openly forced the team to work on a tight budget, which led to Ray’s contract being terminated. Jerry Dipoto also fulfilled the commitments of Marco Gonzales, Evan White and Eugenio Suarez last season. Money was probably behind not even making a valid offer for Teoscar Hernandez last season.

While the M’s have let go of these players, they have brought in bargain-basement players like Tommy La Stella, AJ Pollock and Luis Urias since the 2022 playoffs. Finally, they don’t seem to have made any real effort to sign Shohei Ohtani. They don’t seem willing to pursue Pete Alonso, Alex Bregman or Juan Soto this offseason.

M’s fans have long assumed that the ownership group is more interested in making money than winning baseball games, and this new graphic from The Score’s Travis Sawchik only proves their point.

While Sawchick admits the numbers are not exact, he says the Mariners are making about $374 million for the 2023 season. The organization then turned around and spent just 44 percent of that ($163 million) on players in 2024. This ranks the M’s in the bottom half of the league’s revenue-salary expenditures.

The Mets and Dodgers, who spent the largest portion of their revenue on player payroll, won the National League Championship Series.

As the offseason ramps up, M’s fans will once again look to John Stanton and Co. to spend. We’ll see if they actually do this.

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