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TheMichigan
Hmmm I wonder why…
a1544
Gardner
davbee
He’s next to worthless.
mvpetro
Your worthless
yanks02026
You Clearly know nothing about baseball. Gardner is far from worthless.
a1544
You’re just making yourself look like a fool davbee
polboi
You guys can have Jay Bruce
ethanhickey
M’s are focused on defense..
seamaholic 2
Hmm, that makes the Segura acquisition a little odd, doncha think?
A-A-Ron
Trade whatever for McCutch please
firstbleed
Having McCuthen, Cruz, Cano, Seager… in the lineup would be tough for any apposing pitcher.
24TheKid
A lineup of, Segura, Mcutchen/Braun or Puig, Cano, Cruz, Seager would be killer.
oldleftylong
Cutch is no longer clutch. I wouldn’t trade for him. Now JD, well … hitting the prime time.
EndinStealth
I agree, Cutch is not the player he once was. It would be an over pay to get him and then he put up mediocre numbers.
firstbleed
Lol, you realize JD and McCuthen are only 1 year apart!? So by that logic JD will have a bad year at 29 like McCuthen did las year. smh.
Lefty_Orioles_Fan
There no way in the world the M’s sign Trumbo
Dipoto would be a laughing stock a bad trade and then compounded with coughing up a draft choice…..M’s fans would have a fit.
Plus, the M’s absorbed a Contract in Gallardo, so they don’t have as much money and as for pieces to complete a trade, I don’t know
They were one of the better teams in baseball in August and September, Dipoto is just going to have to figure out what took them so long to warm up and then find that player that will help them.
kc38
The mariners added 4 million for this year and 1 for next year with gallardo. That’s nothing
reflect
And Orioles sent like 2 mil in the trade
jonbackman
M Saunders. Showed some promise in first stint with M’s and got better north of the border. He’s fairly young, athletic like Dipoto prefers, and should come at a decent price following a poor second half last season. Probably not a future all star but could be a solid right fielder who is already familiar with Safeco.
SuperSinker
Michael Saunders is not athletic. He’s a lumbering LF with a reconstructed knee who should probably be DH’ing.
drewm
It’s the west coast…. Braun is available and potentially open to a trade.
Vinny Time
Dodgers have a good surplus of outfielders, wonder if Mariners would be a good trade partner for a 2B?
24TheKid
We allready traded Marte, he’s the only 2B I could see the dodgers wanting.
skrockij89
Marte is a SS not a 2B.
24TheKid
Marte moved to short after cano was signed.
TheBoatmen
I don’t think it would be Bautista or Saunders, they need somebody who can play a little defence in the outfield.
Sundevil617
Puig Eithier? I’m sure the dodgers would love a salary dump for next to nothing.
Neil5611
As a Mariners fan I like it. We need athletes who are good defensively
seamaholic 2
This is why this was a good trade for the M’s and less so for the O’s: There are a billion outfielders on the market, some available for huge discounts, but no starting pitchers. O’s now have to deal with Ubaldo starting every 5th day with no alternative, AND with two lefty corner OF who need platoon partners. But the M’s can browse a stocked OF market at their ease, and put the Gallardo lottery ticket (he was good in the AL West just one year ago) in their pocket.
Those of you who think the O’s did well here aren’t thinking this through.
SuperSinker
Gallardo was a dumpster fire last year, and Seth Smith crushed RHP.
seamaholic 2
Platoon hitters who are bad in the field aren’t terribly valuable. M’s picked one up (Valencia) for literally nothing earlier in the off-season. And even on his strong side, he only did 117 wRC+. That’s nice but not even average for a corner OF. And to repeat: Ubaldo Jimenez has to pitch every 5th day. No options.
Meanwhile, Gallardo was a 2.5 fWAR pitcher just a year ago in the AL West, where he now returns.
SuperSinker
Platoon hitters who crush RHP are much more valuable than guys who hit LHP. And Valencia has been a clubhouse cancer in 3 organizations. It’s not analogous.
seamaholic 2
First of all, no he hasn’t (his teammates love him). And second, yes, you’re right a long half platoon is more useful than a short half, but Smith was only a 118 wRC+ on his good half last year. For a corner OF, that’s very mediocre. Watched him for years in Colorado. Can really only hit fastballs and hangers for right handers, and was never a good fielder.
reflect
There were a ton of SPs though. Tyson? Holland? if Mariners wanted to add one they coulda just signed one, and that guy would be better than Gallardo and they’d still have Smith.
kc38
All of the spelling in these comments is the worst I’ve seen
reflect
MLBTR commenters did not have rave reviews at spelling or at grammar
KIBM
legend has it if you say his name 3 times he’ll be traded to the Mariners: Andrew McCutchen Andrew McCutchen Andrew McCutchen
24TheKid
Ryan Divish the Seattle Times reporter for the M’s said they were asking for Paxton, O’Neil and Diaz. If that’s true there’s no way I make that deal.
MatthewBaltimore23
Will it work for Wade Miley? Wade Miley Wade Miley Wade Miley
24TheKid
Does anyone else get the ad that says, “trainers hate him” with the picture of an old guy that is absolutely ripped? It’s actually pretty funny.
bleacherbum
Travis Jankowski for Drew Jackson
edgar11hof
Add Jose Bautista, to sacrifice their first round pick for 2017 makes the most sense to me. Add that into the equation, then you you get a ‘heavy’ hitting lineup of: Bautista, Cano, Cruz, Segura and Valencia.
Just wait for it…!
Dipoto is putting all of his chips forward this season
Adding O’neill midseason into a corner OF spot to platoon with Gamel or Haniger would further bolster an already dangerous hitting lineup.
thejag
I wonder if they’d be interested in Brett Gardner. Maybe something like Andrew Moore or Max Povse for Brett Gardner and cash?
daveinmp
Can someone please inform the MLBTR staff that Mariners are on Braun’s no-trade list? The only teams not on his list are Angels, Dodgers, Giants, Diamondbacks and Padres.
This is the 2nd time this week, MLBTR has suggested Braun to a team not on his list. Earlier it was the Phillies.
Braun’s been pretty adamant he’s not interested in being dealt to any team other than those he’s indicated he’d accept.
24TheKid
They just got Dyson from the Royals, hasn’t been reported on here yet.
SuperSinker
Woah. Nice, if true.
lesterdnightfly
I bet it will be Jarrod Dyson…..
for say, Nate Karns…..
sugoi51
Good pick-up for the M’s. Speed, defense and coming off career highest OBP,OPS and WAR season of his career.
GarryHarris
This is why I could never be a MLB GM. In 2016, Yovani Gallardo was the 2nd worst SP in the AL (MIN Tyler Duffy was the worst SP in MLB) to go along with a high salary. Maybe the Mariners have a corner OF in mind, but, what possessed the mariner to trade Seth Smith for Gallardo?
24TheKid
Jarrod Dyson.
thekid24
Smith isn’t/wasn’t worth his current salary of $7M/yr as a mediocre-average platoon player who adds no value defensively. M’s needed a veteran right-handed SP to fill the hole in their rotation, and it also provided them with another trade piece in Nate Karns (at a time when the market has no SP’s) since Gallardo will take his rotation spot. So then Dipoto takes Karns and shops him around, and ends up swapping him for OF Jarrod Dyson… Pretty impressive maneuvering by Dipoto if you ask me. He filled the M’s starting-pitcher need by unloading an underproducing & overpaid Seth Smith for a veteran right-hander, then swaps a mediocre SP for an average hitting OF who is unbelievably fast and very good defensively. Dipoto continues to impress me with his under-the-radar signings and sneaky trades that tend to always give them more value than what they gave away.
bravesfan9
I bet they trade Karns for Dyson