The Marlins and Mariners have announce a deal that sends veteran outfielder Cameron Maybin to Seattle, Ryan Divish of the Seattle Times tweets. Prospect Bryson Brigman and $250K of international pool money are heading to Miami in the deal, per reports from Divish, Jon Heyman of Fancred (via Twitter), and MLB.com’s Jesse Sanchez (via Twitter).
Maybin, 31, is earning just $3.25MM on the season under the one-year deal he inked over the winter. That makes him an affordable addition to the Seattle organization.
Though he struggled for much of the early portion of the season at the plate, Maybin has turned things on recently. Over the month of July, Maybin owns a .309/.427/.456 batting line with three home runs and five steals through 68 plate appearances. On the year, he’s producing at about 10% below the league-average rate, much as he did last year.
Of course, much of Maybin’s value is tied up in his legs and glove. He’s grading poorly on the basepaths this year, but that’s likely a blip for a player who was once an elite baserunner and has been quite good in the recent past. Maybin has performed well at all three outfield spots this year in Miami.
For the Mariners, this move adds another versatile piece to the outfield mix. The club added Denard Span a few months back, and he has performed quite well. Mitch Haniger has proven worthy of regular time and Ben Gamel has knocked around opposing righties. Maybin could ultimately displace Guillermo Heredia, who has stalled out at the plate, or join him to form a pair of right-handed options to go with the lefty-hitting Span and Gamel.
Clark Spencer of the Miami Herald (via Twitter) and Craig Mish of MLB Network Radio (via Twitter) reported that the Fish were about to make another swap.
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Really Cashman? The big acquisition is Lance Lynn?
I dont get why youre questioning the Lance Lynn trade on an article about Cameron Maybin, but oo
J.A. Happ? Zach Britton? Or, is your attention span that short?
Lmao how can somebody possibly consider Lynn as a more serious acquisition over Happ and Britton?
Why on earth do my fellow Yankees fans need to embarrass the rest of the fan base this much? Cashman traded for Happ and Britton. Lynn was an extra piece. Few teams have made more consequential moves leading up to the deadline. Just because it doesn’t happen on the 31st doesn’t detract anything.
Spoken like a true Yankees fan…..isn’t aware that NY has already traded for Happ and Britton.
Yeah lol get over it. Far cry from Yanks thinking DeGrom, Mad Bum or Archer.
Oh then theirs the Sonny Gray for Harper BS Yank fans have come up with. Yank fans all talk no action and full of BS 99.9% of the time. Just like last year Sonny Gray will rock the rotation. Yeah ok Disney World is in Florida. Lol Typical NY fan. I shouldn’t say that. Because some are cool. Cashman a great GM. If you haven’t noticed he did get Britton and Haop. But no some fans are thinking Archer, Mad Bum, DeGrom, Harper Macho and live in la la land. The fans said it tight you make Yank fans look bad.
We’re not all dumb, Michael. Unfortunately, the dumbest tend to be the loudest.
How about Stanton at the beginning of the season? How about Britton? I am a Mariners fan, we didn’t do much either, but our big acquisition was Dee Gordon and then Span and Colome…..We also got that guy from you as well as Zach Duke. Maybin will be an upgrade, but a modest one.
Maybin plucked into winning the World Series last year, maybe it will happen again for him
Uh, no. Mariners would be lucky to hold off Oakland for the second WC.
both those teams are going to pass the Astros if Houston doesn’t start hitting
Omg yes plz
Upgrade over heredia. Solid defender. Takes his walks. I like it.
He Maybin traded already, they are just working out the final details.
Why even trade for Maybin. Has been a non factor his whole career. Wasted trade even if it was for free
thanks for that insight.
Finally Dipoto makes a trade
Two others in the past 12 hours wasn’t enough?
They acquired Warren and Duke in 2 separate trades last night.
And tuivala (spelling) in the past few days as well
man when is dipoto going to make another trade? feels like forever ago he acquired maybin
Hopefully he can stay healthy for Seattle
Maybin should have played more this year. Some of the brutal stuff we saw in the OF, I found myself asking why he wasnt playing a lot. Especially when Prado was out, they moved Anderson to the OF, which has actually looked good, but they could have kept him at 3b or moved Dietrich back there, and played Maybin, instead of letting Yadiel Rivera and JT Riddle trash up the left side of the infield
Have to give Maybin props for how he looked while he was here. Was only 10 years in the making……………..
Just saw a blip. Zunino and prospects for Sal Perez.
One could only dream… Zunino needs to go. He along with Heredia are total liabilities at the plate.
At least Z can run into one every once in a while.
Mr. Dipoto, I have 2 words for you: STARTING PITCHING.
Oh, I forgot, I have 2 more words for you: STARTING PITCHING.
And before I forget… STARTING BLEEPING PITCHING!!!!
Gonzales and LeBlanc are going to hit the wall soon since neither of them has pitched this much in a season, and Felix has allowed himself to become a total headcase and not realize that his fastball is now his worst pitch, by far. Paxton looked great last night, and Leake is solid. But the M’s need a starter to, at the very least, eat some innings that might otherwise have to go to the starters they’re trying to rest for the stretch run. Maybe we’ll get lucky and they’ll pluck Ervin Santana from the Twins today… or maybe after the deadline (doubtful he’d be claimed on waivers.) But once again, like this past winter, the most pressing need for this team has been ignored. Grrrrr……
Whom do you suggest the Mariners give up in order to receive a quality SP in return?
I like this pickup. If we can get a SP that’s decent before the deadline, I’ll be pretty stoked. This is the closest Seattle has been to the playoffs in a good while, and Jerry is doing fantastic work so far in the 3 names he’s picked up based on our budget. I just want to see the M’s do something big! The time is now!
Hmmm. With the lack of middle infield depth in the system, I’m surprised at the dealing of Bryson Brigman.
Mlb.com scouting report seems to hate him lol. “Decent defender with no arm and makes contact, but $#!+ty contact, and isnt strong at all, and is old for the level, and maybe can be minor league infield depth”
Haniger, Heredia, Spann, Gamel, Maybin… that’s about 1 outfielder too many. Either Heredia is headed to Tacoma or to the DL.
Heredia is going to AAA.