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The Seattle Times
The Seattle Times
The 2021 Mariners were a monument to overachievement, and that’s a tribute to their manager, Scott Servais. On Tuesday, Servais deserved to be named American League Manager of the Year but instead finished second to Tampa Bay’s Kevin Cash. Servais coaxed every last win out of a flawed team — well, all but the two wins against the Angels in the final weekend that would have finally put them in the playoffs. But the Mariners had won 10 of their previous 11 games down the stretch, under extreme pressure, to put themselves in that position. It was a tour de force of managing (and also of coming th…