PEORIA, Ariz. — How do you tell your boss something they don't want to hear? Sitting in a T-Mobile Park conference room in late August of 2018, Mariners owner John Stanton asked a complicated question of his top two baseball executives — Jerry Dipoto and Justin Hollander — and then-manager Scott Servais. Flanked by Chris Larson, the most influential member of the franchise’s ownership group, ...
