When will White get the OK to talk to Seattle about the GM job?”
New Mariners GM could have pick for manager A longtime supporter of new Mariners general manager Jack Zduriencik has a personal interest in seeing history repeat itself. It was six years ago that the Milwaukee Brewers hired Ned Yost to manage a team that had lost 106 games. The guy in charge of drafting and player development for Milwaukee was none other than Zduriencik, and the fruits of his picks were about to be reaped by Yost at the major-league level. Within three seasons, the Brewers were playing .500 ball. Yost then had them contending for the playoffs last year and again this season before being fired in mid-September with his team in a dreadful slump. The dismissal, an act of apparent desperation by team owner Mark Attanasio, came against the wishes of GM Doug Melvin and his staff. And now, on the lookout for his next job, Yost would like nothing more than to team up again with old pal Zduriencik in Seattle. “Definitely, most definitely,” Yost said in an interview on Thursday.
