The biggest headline in the Seattle Mariners' season came May 15, when second baseman Robinson Cano received an 80-game suspension for violating Major League Baseball's joint drug agreement. General manager Jerry Dipoto has been around long enough, as both a player and an executive, to MLB The Show 18 Stubs understand the impact a setback of that magnitude can have on a team's season.

I thought it would go one of two ways," Dipoto said. "We would either slide, or it would be a galvanizing moment. To the credit of people in that clubhouse, and [manager] Scott Servais and the coaching staff, they all pulled together and took the situation and made the best of it. In the three years I've been here -- and the faces have changed quite a bit -- this team plays together as well as any team I've been with."