The funny thing with Seattle is that you could argue that their ownerships groups commitment to spending money (re-upping Felix, signing Cano, Rodney, Young, Bloomqusist, Hart and acquiring Morrison) is what caused the turn around and increased team confidence this year.
It is those efforts to improve the team that Bautista was dissapointed the Blue Jays did not do, and what he complained about leading to the shouts of "bad attitude". (Although the Mariners are still spending ~ $40 million less than the Jays, and that is on AA's inability to build a winning team with that salary).
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