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SEATTLE -- Jerry Dipoto and Justin Hollander have taken center stage as the offseason opened its first notable event this week at the General Managers Meetings in Las Vegas, where the sport’s most prominent decision-makers descended on the desert to begin scoping their plans for 2026.

For Dipoto, the Mariners’ president of baseball operations, and Hollander, their general manager, this week will be about laying the groundwork toward what they hope will be a second straight American League West title -- and going even further than their berth in the AL Championship Series that went the distance.

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