Nick Piecoro: D-Backs exec Dipoto a GM in the making

As the Diamondbacks’ director of player personnel, Jerry Dipoto deals in information and evaluation, and as such his conversations with the pro scouts he oversees tend to range more in hours than minutes.

“I call it being Dipoto’d,” Diamondbacks scout Tim Schmidt said.

The long conversations show that Dipoto can really talk - “No one’s ever left wondering what I was thinking,” he jokes - and illustrate the passion with which the 40-year-old executive goes about his job…

And as GM jobs pop up throughout the game, Dipoto’s name keeps surfacing in baseball’s rumor mill as a GM-in-waiting. Recently, industry speculation has connected Dipoto to the Seattle Mariners’ GM vacancy.