Heading into another long offseason, the frustrations of Seattle Mariners fans are pretty easy to understand.

1) M fans are upset about supporting the only baseball team to never appear in a World Series.

2) M fans are upset that the current ownership group doesn’t seem to care about this fact and isn’t doing everything they can to change it.

Mariners fans would like to see ownership fully invest in the roster so they can capitalize on this historically good pitching staff and actually make the World Series.

While the M’s have spent in recent years on Julio Rodriguez, Luis Castillo and Robbie Ray, they have also seemingly forced the organization to play with one hand tied behind its back. The ownership group clearly forced the team to work within a strict budget, leading to the termination of Ray’s contract. Jerry Dipoto also dropped commitments from Marco Gonzales, Evan White and Eugenio Suarez last offseason. Money was also a likely reason for not giving Teoscar Hernandez even a qualifying offer last offseason.

Although the M’s let those players go, they brought in low-cost guys like Tommy La Stella, AJ Pollock, and Luis Urias out of a playoff spot in 2022. They didn’t seem to make any real effort to signing Shohei Ohtani last time. off-season and don’t seem willing to go after Pete Alonso, Alex Bregman or Juan Soto this offseason.

M fans have long assumed that the ownership group was more concerned with making money than winning baseball games, and this new graphic from Travis Sawchik of The Score only proves their point.

Although Sawchick admits the numbers aren’t accurate, he says the Mariners made about $374 million for the 2023 season. The organization then turned around and spent only 44 percent of that ( $163 million) for players in 2024. This ranks the M’s in the bottom half of spending in terms of revenue and payroll in the league.

The Mets and Dodgers, who spent most of their revenue on player payroll, both made the National League Championship Series.

As the offseason heats up, M fans will once again be looking for John Stanton and Co. to spend. We’ll see if they actually do it.

THE Sailors missed the playoffs by 1.0 games last season.

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