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CBS Sports reports that Mariners manager Dan Wilson will not return in 2027 following a season that saw the club fall from Game 7 of the 2025 ALCS to missing the playoffs entirely in 2026. The collapse marks one of the more dramatic reversals in recent baseball memory, a team that stood on the doorstep of a World Series appearance suddenly stripped of October baseball the following year. For a franchise with a long history of frustration, the whiplash feels especially cruel.
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