Jerry Dipoto used Scott Servais as a scapegoat for his own mistakes.
The season before Servais got fired, the M's were very nearly top 10 in runs scored per game, but everyone complained about too many strikeouts. So Dipoto got rid of 2 of our most productive players in Teo and Geno, and replaced them with Haniger, Garver, and Polanco, and paid $45 million to do it, which was more than it would have cost to just keep Teo and Geno. The result of those moves was that the M's dropped all the way from a nearly top 10 scoring team to nearly dead last, and still struck out just as much. Jerry's moves were nothing short of a disaster... and yet Servais was the one that got fired.
And let's not forget how Servais found out he got fired for Jerry's mistakes. It wasn't from Dipoto or the team. It was from a news alert. It shows a massive lack of professionalism, respect, and class from both Dipoto and the Mariners as a franchise to let that happen.
