Lookout Linkage, 10/4/15

Good morning fellow Mariners fans! Let's get your day started with some light reading:

• According to Jerry Dipoto, re-signing Hisashi Iwakuma will be a priority for the M's this offseason.
• Robinson Cano will undergo surgery in the offseason to remedy a sports hernia.
• Zack Greinke has been better this year in part because of Felix Hernandez.
• Tony Blengino at Fangraphs breaks down the AL Cy Young race.
• Ichiro appears to be aiming to play until he is 50.
• Max Scherzer threw his second no-hitter of the season last night.
• Matt Harvey will make one start in the NLDS despite having met his innings limit for the season.
• Jeff Sullivan notices that batters have been swinging on the first pitch much more often lately.
• Jeremy Affeldt has announced that he will retire at the end of the season.
• Dave Cameron provides his make-believe NL MVP ballot.
• Rob Manfred would consider expanding MLB into Mexico.
• The Braves have hired John Coppolella to be the team's next GM.
• The Hardball Times uses Defense Independent Batting Statistics to evaluate batters.
• If healthy, John Farrell will be back to manage the Red Sox in 2016.
• A video of a bunch of sorority girls taking selfies at a Diamondbacks game has gone viral, but Mark Hinog doesn't see any issue with what they did.
• Nicole Haase at Brew Crew Ball says shame on whoever mocks the sorority girls.