Q1: Why did you apply to become the Seattle Mariners GM?



A: It's pretty funny, because when I first heard about the position I had to ask the OOTC what the GM even does! I had just recently joined up with the Rangers after a stint at fake college football and I was looking for something that was a bit less number intensive, as you guess about 100 numbers in 10 days over there. I felt burned out by that bulk and was purely looking for something more mellow, but was riding pine in Texas an over-correction? I was having doubts as a large aspect of that clubhouse is still just guessing numbers which at that point was going to amount to maybe guess one a game. So I looked outward and as I found out that a GM builds lineups, swings trades, builds a clubhouse and creates a discord family, I fell in love. It was everything I had been missing without the aspects I dreaded in my past. So I went for it. With Seattle in particular, the record is a bit daunting but the cupboards were not bare. With the playoffs not the goal I felt like I had time to learn and build for the future, and with the talent that already existed on the team I felt confident in our ability to build a perennial winner.

