It seems we’ve reached the point in our GM Trade History series where someone at MLBTR has taken on the foolhardy, daunting task of re-chronicling the unyielding exploits of Mariners GM Jerry Dipoto — far and away the most active executive on MLB’s trade market. (What have I done?!) Commonly referred to as “Trader Jerry,” the seemingly tireless Dipoto has fueled hundreds of posts here at MLBTR (thanks, Jerry!) through a series of win-now moves, fringe roster tinkerings and, more recently, a “reimagining” of his organization.
Dipoto took the reins as the Mariners’ general manager at the conclusion of the 2015 campaign. Predecessor Jack Zduriencik had been unable to break the club’s mounting postseason drought, and ownership turned to a former division rival to try to turn things around. Dipoto held the GM post with the Angels from 2011-15 but saw a relatively publicized rift grow between himself and skipper Mike Scioscia over the manager’s unwillingness to utilize data from the club’s analytics department. The frustration boiled to the point where Dipoto resigned in early July despite reported attempts from owner Arte Moreno to persuade him to stay on board. Dipoto quickly landed an interim post in the Red Sox’ front office, and less than three months after walking away from the Angels, he was named the new GM in Seattle.
There’s a narrative that Dipoto’s constant activity rendered the Mariners’ farm bare early in his tenure, and while there’s probably some truth within that generalization, it’s equally important to note that he inherited a losing club with a relatively high payroll and an already-poor minor league system. That was four and a half years ago, though. How have things worked out for Dipoto since? Let’s take a (very long) look! Trades are in chronological order and exclude particularly minor swaps. (More details on each trade is available in the “acquired” link on each bullet.)
2015-16 Offseason
- Acquired RHP Nate Karns, LHP C.J. Riefenhauser and OF Boog Powell from the Rays in exchange for 1B Logan Morrison, INF Brad Miller and RHP Danny Farquhar
- Acquired RHP Joaquin Benoit from the Padres in exchange for RHP Enyel De Los Santos and INF Nelson Ward
- Acquired OF Leonys Martin and RHP Anthony Bass from the Rangers in exchange for RHP Tom Wilhelmsen, OF James Jones and PTBNL (INF/OF Patrick Kivlehan)
- Acquired INF Luis Sardinas from the Brewers in exchange for OF Ramon Flores
- Acquired C Steve Clevenger from the Orioles in exchange for 1B Mark Trumbo and LHP C.J. Riefenhauser
- Acquired LHP Wade Miley and RHP Jonathan Aro from the Red Sox in exchange for RHP Carson Smith and LHP Roenis Elias
- Acquired 1B Adam Lind from the Brewers in exchange for RHPs Freddy Peralta, Carlos Herrera and Daniel Missaki
2016 Season
- Acquired RHP Nick Vincent from the Padres in exchange for cash
- Acquired RHP Zach Lee from the Dodgers in exchange for INF/OF Chris Taylor
- Acquired LHP Wade LeBlanc from the Blue Jays in exchange for cash
- Acquired 1B/DH Daniel Vogelbach and RHP Paul Blackburn from the Cubs in exchange for LHP Mike Montgomery and RHP Jordan Pries
- Acquired RHP Drew Storen and cash from the Blue Jays in exchange for RHP Joaquin Benoit
- Acquired LHP Ariel Miranda from the Orioles in exchange for LHP Wade Miley
- Acquired RHP Arquimedes Caminero from the Pirates in exchange for two PTBNLs (RHP Pedro Vasquez and LHP Jake Brentz)
- Acquired SHP Pat Venditte from the Blue Jays in exchange for PTBNL (INF/OF Tim Lopes)
- Acquired OF Ben Gamel from the Yankees in exchange for RHPs Juan De Paula and Jio Orozco
2016-17 Offseason
- Acquired C Carlos Ruiz from Dodgers in exchange for LHP Vidal Nuno
- Acquired INF Danny Valencia from the Athletics in exchange for RHP Paul Blackburn
- Acquired INF Richie Shaffer and INF/OF Taylor Motter from the Rays in exchange for 1B Dalton Kelly, RHP Andrew Kittredge and RHP Dylan Thompson
- Acquired LHP James Pazos from the Yankees in exchange for RHP Zack Littell
- Acquired SS Jean Segura, OF Mitch Haniger and LHP Zac Curtis from the D-backs in exchange for INF/OF Ketel Marte and RHP Taijuan Walker
- Acquired RHP Rob Whalen and RHP Max Povse from the Braves in exchange for C/OF Alex Jackson and PTBNL (LHP Tyler Pike)
- Acquired RHP Chris Heston from the Giants in exchange for PTBNL (RHP Tyler Herb)
- Acquired RHP Yovani Gallardo and cash from the Orioles in exchange for OF Seth Smith
- Acquired OF Jarrod Dyson from the Royals in exchange for RHP Nate Karns
- Acquired OF Mallex Smith and RHP Shae Simmons from the Braves in exchange for LHPs Luiz Gohara and Thomas Burrows
- Acquired LHP Drew Smyly from the Rays in exchange for OF Mallex Smith, LHP Ryan Yarbrough and INF Carlos Vargas
2017 Season
- Acquired RHP David Phelps from the Marlins in exchange for RHP Pablo Lopez, OF Brayan Hernandez and RHP Lukas Schiraldi
- Acquired LHP Marco Gonzales from the Cardinals in exchange for OF Tyler O’Neill
- Acquired RHP Erasmo Ramirez from the Rays in exchange for RHP Steve Cishek
- Acquired 1B Yonder Alonso from the Athletics in exchange for OF Boog Powell
- Acquired RHP Ryan Garton and C Mike Marjama from the Rays in exchange for INF Luis Rengifo, LHP Anthony Misiewicz and PTBNL (INF Osmy Gregorio)
- Acquired LHP Andrew Albers from the Braves for cash
- Acquired RHP Mike Leake, $750K of international bonus space and $17MM from the Cardinals in exchange for INF Rayder Ascanio
2017-18 Offseason
- Acquired 1B Ryon Healy from the Athletics in exchange for RHP Emilio Pagan and INF Alexander Campos
- Acquired RHP Nick Rumbelow from the Yankees in exchange for LHP JP Sears and RHP Juan Then
- Acquired 2B Dee Gordon and $1MM of international bonus space from the Marlins in exchange for RHP Nick Neidert, RHP Robert Dugger and INF Christopher Torres
2018 Season
- Acquired LHP Roenis Elias from the Red Sox in exchange for cash
- Acquired OF Denard Span, RHP Alex Colome and $4.75MM from the Rays in exchange for RHPs Andrew Moore and Tommy Romero
- Acquired RHP Sam Tuivailala from the Cardinals in exchange for RHP Seth Elledge
- Acquired LHP Zach Duke from the Twins in exchange for RHP Chase De Jong and INF Ryan Costello
- Acquired RHP Adam Warren from the Yankees in exchange for $1MM international bonus space
- Acquired OF Cameron Maybin from the Marlins in exchange for INF Bryson Brigman and $250K international bonus space
2018-19 Offseason
- Acquired LHP Justus Sheffield, RHP Erik Swanson and OF Dom Thompson-Williams from the Yankees in exchange for LHP James Paxton
- Acquired C Omar Narvaez from the White Sox in exchange for RHP Alex Colome
- Acquired OF Jarred Kelenic, RHP Justin Dunn, RHP Gerson Bautista, RHP Anthony Swarzak and OF Jay Bruce from the Mets in exchange for 2B Robinson Cano and RHP Edwin Diaz
- Acquired SS J.P. Crawford and 1B Carlos Santana from the Phillies in exchange for SS Jean Segura, RHP Juan Nicasio and LHP James Pazos
- Acquired 1B Edwin Encarnacion and Competitive Balance Draft pick from Indians in three-team deal sending 1B Carlos Santana and $6MM from Seattle to Cleveland (Indians also traded INF Yandy Diaz, RHP Cole Sulser to Rays; Rays traded 1B/OF Jake Bauers to Indians and sent $5MM to Mariners in deal)
- Acquired OF Domingo Santana from Brewers in exchange for OF Ben Gamel and RHP Noah Zavolas
- Acquired 2B Shed Long from the Yankees in exchange for OF Josh Stowers (Mariners were third team in trade sending Sonny Gray from New York to Cincinnati)
- Acquired C Tom Murphy from the Giants in exchange for RHP Jesus Ozoria
2019 Season
- Acquired RHP Connor Sadzeck from the Rangers in exchange for RHP Grant Anderson
- Acquired RHP Mike Wright from the Orioles in exchange for INF Ryne Ogren
- Acquired RHP Austin L. Adams from the Nationals in exchange for LHP Nick Wells and cash
- Acquired LHP Jesse Biddle and injured RHP Arodys Vizcaino from the Braves in exchange for RHP Anthony Swarzak and cash
- Acquired INF Jake Scheiner from the Phillies in exchange for OF Jay Bruce and $18MM
- Acquired RHP Juan Then and cash from the Yankees in exchange for 1B Edwin Encarnacion
- Acquired RHP Matt Magill from the Twins for cash
- Acquired INF Daniel Castro from the Dodgers in exchange for INF/OF Kristopher Negron
- Acquired LHP Taylor Guilbeau and RHP Elvis Alvarado from the Nationals in exchange for LHP Roenis Elias
- Acquired LHP Aaron Fletcher from the Nationals in exchange for RHP Hunter Strickland
- Acquired INF Jose Caballero from the D-backs in exchange for RHP Mike Leake
2019-20 Offseason
- Acquired RHP Adam Hill and a Competitive Balance Draft pick from the Brewers in exchange for C Omar Narvaez
- Acquired LHP Nestor Cortes Jr. from the Yankees in exchange for $28,300 international bonus space
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How do MLBTR readers feel about Dipoto’s landslide of trade activity? (Link to poll for Trade Rumors mobile app users.)
Interested in how other GMs hold up under this exercise? We’ve covered Diamondbacks GM Mike Hazen, recently fired Astros president Jeff Luhnow, Brewers president of baseball ops David Stearns, Angels GM Billy Eppler, Rockies GM Jeff Bridich, Tigers GM Al Avila, Braves GM Alex Anthopoulos and Blue Jays GM Ross Atkins as well.
I’d like to see One of these on Andrew Friedman in LA.
He’s had an amazing blend of fringe deals, blockbusters, mid summer deals, CBT driven deals… I know Zaidi of course deserves a fair amount of credit for his time with the team, but given Friedman has always been “the guy”, I think it would be cool to look back
since it’s Seattle maybe they were… CBD-driven deals?
*ducks*
go get on baseball reference and search all their moves in the Friedman era.
Wow I never thought to use the internet before!
Thanks for nothing
They’re clearly trying to find articles to do, so I gave a suggestion that would be entertaining to read because he’s so active
Is this part one of three? 🙂
Right?! I expected it to be so much longer lol
That’s what she said.
They ‘exclude particularly minor swaps’.
Given that probably 90% of Dipoto’s trades are somewhat-interesting-but-absolutely-blocked-filler for somewhat-interesting-and-can-get-plenty-of-opportunities-filler, it makes sense.
Right around the time he started the ‘reimagine’ yard sale (I believe it was right around the Paxton and Zunino deals but before he had announced he was fully committed to it), I tried to chronicle every single trade through the 2018 season along with net WAR differentials for all players acquired and traded away
It… took a few weeks…
While it would be out of date now (no Marte breakout, Cano+Diaz heist, etc.), the amazing take-away at the time was just how… neutral the net sum of all of his trades up until then. In spite of all haters hatred and languishing, the totality of 2 years of Dipoto trades were a net total of ~+1-2 WAR.
BAHAHAHAHAHA
Getting rid of Cano and getting Kelenic is at least a B all by itself.
That was an A++.
Cano was still owed 120 million. They sent 20 million and absorbed the contracts of Bruce and Swarzak, but even if you called that money lost (they got some value out of Bruce and still saved a few million when they traded him), you’re looking at 67 million saved.
That alone made the deal worth it. Kelenic and Dunn may make this one of the most lopsided deals in history.
Well that’s good for the M’s. Kelenic and Dunn can be payback for losing Jones and Tillman.
And while I’m reasonably confident all of you are implicitly accounting for it, the timely collapses from Cano and Diaz can’t be understated. Even after both players can appear to have bounced back some in 2020, the short season caveats remain and there is little chance their values will ever even approach what they were following 2018.
The axiom is ‘better to trade a year too early than a year too late’. To me, what makes that trade a heist is how it was so perfectly on time. To a lesser degree, the same can be said of that offseason as a whole. Coming off one of the flukiest seasons in MLB history, it was necessary. If only 2008-09 Zduriencik had been like 2018-19 Dipoto, all of those former-Mariners-farmhand All Stars could have been Mariners All Stars…
Jerry first flushed the hapless (Miller, Morrison, et al) and tried to put pieces around an aging core (Cano, Felix et al) and finally flushed the whole mess and went after youth and hopefully a bright future, I love what we have going now. Potential future………
C-Cal Raliegh
1B-Tyler White
2B-Shed Long
SS-JP Crawford
3B-Kyle Seager?
LF-Kyle Lewis
CF-Jarred Kelenic
RF-Julio Rodriguez
I wonder which of these guys won’t pan out. Odds are a couple of them at least. But the upside of what DiPoto is doing is exciting. Some good young arms are on their way too.
BPax- from what I’ve been reading scouts vizualize Noelvi Marte transitioning from SS to 3B. That would take care of your Kyle Seager problem
Evan White
This is more of a novel than a trade list
I only have a Masters…this is PhD stuff……
waiting for this one to say how overrated he is. smoke and mirrors never won anyone a championship.
Who rates DiPoto? Despite his penchant for the spinning the wheel in trades—he doesn’t have a terrible history. You’d think he may be better served trying to develop his own guys moving forward rather than trading half of them away.
TB does a similar thing by trading their own prospects and young players. They don’t typically trade for the same guys back like DiPoto though.
So you say Dipoto would be better served by keeping his own prospects? Well, good news for you, because that’s exactly what he’s been doing the last year and a half and is continuing to do.
Unfortunately for you that means he’s past due to trade some away. Time will tell if he really reverses his course. There’s a lot of talent on the way to Seattle in the next few years.
Worst GM in baseball.
Screwed up the Angels and now screwed up the Mariners.
Can you send him to the Rangers next
Your GM literally got fired and banned from baseball for a year
Yeah, that one guy who is bitter because Dipoto left the Angels.
I’m dizzy
I see the Rays and Mariners annual trade arrangement really is a thing haha, I always thought that was the case, but never saw it all compiled like this. There hasn’t one yet this year, but there is still plenty of time for Neander to swing another deal with old Dealin’ Dipoto.
(Oh, and pretty sure they acquired Dee Gordon from the Marlins, not Nick)
Augh, thanks for that.
Another minor detail: Seattle sent 20 million (cash considerations) with Cano and Diaz to NYM, if I’m not mistaken.
Dealin Dipoto, even from a hospital bed.B+ for now.
you just know his final words are gonna be something like “let’s make a trade” or “do we have a deal?”
I give him an A just for the sheer amount of trades
You beat me to fessing up. Yeps!
Dealing Yarbrough to Tampa was a tough one…but the Cano deal more than balances this out. He’s dealt away a lot of young players so only time will tell if Seattle won or lost most of these deals. One thing’s for sure; he was off his game this offseason. Only 2 trades in 2020? Maybe even he lost track of who was on the Mariner’s roster after the last 3+ seasons; I certainly did!
If Smyly had stayed healthy, that could have changed a ton of things. I find it hard to hold him accountable for that one.
But now there’s a heap of young talent. And several studs will stick around long enough for you to be able to buy their jerseys 🙂
Freddy Peralta for Adam Lind wasn’t his best work either. That has the potential to get worse. Taking Dee Gordon’s underwater salary, giving up prospects and trying to have him play CF was definitely one of his worst. Pagan for Healy also. Yarbrough I suppose is the biggest loss. That depends if you view the financial loss of Gordon to be worse than the production loss of Yarbrough. Rengifo and Pablo Lopez look like they didn’t work out as well.
No huge losses and he obviously fleeced BVW with a gigantic win last year. The Marco Gonzales trade was a big win as well.
You’d think moving forward he may try to develop more guys now that they’re in a rebuild. Some of those small losses he had were for a failed attempt to cobble together a winning team. Althoug, the guys he traded for to win now with were extremely flawed players at the time. DiPoto definitely shouldn’t get a free pass for that either. But he didn’t have much of a farm to work with.
What do you mean “you’d think moving forward he may try to develop more guys”? That’s literally what he was doing in 2019 and is continuing to do.
You’re talking about a guy who made about 60 trades in 4 years. Whether or not he’ll start trading prospects for other prospects from outside the organization is anyone’s guess. Or young major leaguers for young ML’ers.
IE. Pagan for Healy
Marte and Walker for Haniger and Segura
Gohara for Mallex
Marco for O’neill
Pazos for Littell
Trading prospect for prospect or young ML’er for young ML’er certainly isn’t out of character for DiPoto, is it? That’s what I said you’d think moving forward he’d try to develop his guys in house. I have no idea whether or not he’ll start tinkering again in a years time. His track record leaves you a little skeptical.
It wouldn’t come
You can describe Dipoto’s tenure as being Bi-polar. His 5 years of trading are divided into two distinct era’s or trading phases: first a large amount of trades to find complimentary pieces to add to the Bavasi/Jack Z team he inherited- a talented team that twice finished just a few games out of the playoffs. The bulk of trades in that first phase were a massive amount of small trades that proved insignificant/ a wash and, a couple of significant trades from the best pieces of that bad farm system. Those 2 significant trades had two very different results 1) bad fortune with the season ending injuries to Smyly and D Phelps and 2) a return that is mostly still in the wait and see category- if the injured Haniger and Walker contribute this season that trade will be mostly an even return for both teams.
Since the attempt to add complimentary pieces to a solid team failed his second phase is a complete rebuild. Obviously it’s far too early to judge Dipoto on this current rebuild. He now has a top ranked farm system in MLB (whatever that means!) which is quite an achievement. Strangely, his critics are also divided into two camps 1) Bitter Angels fans and 2) Mariners fans who are mostly hopeful the young studs of this new rebuild can carry them to a new era of winning baseball.
Dipoto is certainly not finished trading- he will have to trade a couple of his current crop of OF’ers and utility players to make room for K Lewis, Kelenic and J-Rod. This will no doubt frustrate one camp and provide more hope to the other bringing his Bi-polar reign full circle.
Ah, yes. Jerry DiBozo. Also affectionately known around MLBTR forum circles as “The JeDi.” And award for the Guinness Book of World Records for jogging in place goes to……
I still remember when he effectively traded Dan Haren to himself after leaving the D-Backs for the Halos…
I k ew for certain that the trade history would be ten times longer than the article. JD sure has provided some rather entertaining off seasons.
Lots of action, little payoff. He tries, and he hasn’t made any terrible trades, but he never gets his club over the hump. His teams have only made the postseason once, and got swept. If I could, I’d give him a B- tops.
Richt- while you can surely say he didn’t get LAA over the hump it’s too early to say the same about SEA. We need to see how his rebuild develops before one can judge
Love how this is like 5 pages long!!
What did you do to deserve this assignment? Yikes.
dipdip! dipdip!
What about the trade of Mike Leake to the D-backs?
Last trade listed
Really needs to be graded on two levels. One when trying to build around the aging/expensive/worst minors in baseball that he inherited. He probably gets a C here with the Smyly and Taylor deals destroying his score along with the international money moves that didn’t end up helping him land Ohtani.
For the rebuild years, dumping Cano and Diaz to get Kelenic looks brilliant so far, but we’ll see.
You’re missing Omar Navaez to the Brewers this offseason.
It’s the second-to-last bullet.
I’m sorry I’m an idiot, sometimes I can’t help it. lol I’m blind.
Must be something in the Seattle water. Pete Carroll & John Schneider were accused of the same ‘transaction action’ their first years as Seahawks execs.
My nickname for Mr. Dipoto is Trade-DHD… he’ll be doing something and then just go “Oops, time to trade.” He’s been all about rebuilding the farm system that was decimated by the reigns of Bill Bavasi and Jack Zduriencik. The long-term impact at the major league level has yet to be determined and won’t be until all of the pieces he’s acquired (Kelenic, Dunn, Sheffield, Fraley, etc.) mesh with those he’s drafted and signed (i.e., White, Rodriguez, Gilbert, Kirby, Lewis, etc.) He traded for more international bonus pool money to make a serious run at Shohei Ohtani, but once he went to the Angels, he traded that money away. There won’t be much left from the current major league roster to go with the new guys; maybe Kikuchi and Gonzales. The bullpen will be populated by the guys who dominated in AA in 2019 (Warren, Anderson, Delaplane, Fletcher, etc.)
The big problem is that other than Evan White, the team has NO infield prospects that will impact the roster anytime soon. Noelvi Marte is at least 2-3 years away from the big leagues, and Donnie Walton profiles as a utility guy. That’s the area that the M’s will have to concentrate on in free agency.
Regardless, it’s going to be a rough few years in Seattle. Notwithstanding Dipoto’s claim that his “re-imagining” will lead to a contending team in 2021, it will be at least 2-3 years before the M’s sniff the playoffs. First, they have to convince players to sign here, and that’s a tough sell these days. Then, pretty much all of the prospects will have to work out; the last time the M’s tried that approach (Smoak, Ackley, Miller, Zunino, Montero, etc.), they crashed and burned. There’s no guarantee they’ll all succeed (that’s why they’re “prospects.”) And then they have to hope that the other teams in the division decide to cooperate and come back to earth at the same time. That’s a long list of things that all have to go right simultaneously.
At least Jerry will make the ride interesting…
Why is it a tough sell to get guys to Seattle? Players want money, and the Mariners have plenty of it. And this past offseason shows that your thinking that Dipoto just trades for the fun of it is wrong.
So you’re telling me the current day M’s could’ve had Ryan Yarbrough, Chris Taylor, Freddy Peralta, Pablo Lopez, Tyler O’neil, and Emilio Pagan? Rangers fans across the globe say, Thank you Jerry!
O’Neill was traded for Gonzales. Huge win so far for Dipoto. None of those other guys are more than role players outside of the career year Taylor has three years ago. Pagan and Yarbrough are solid but not big losses
Yarbrough and Lopez are presumptive full-time starters going forward, I wouldn’t call either of them role players. But I didn’t think those trades were awful at the time they were made. My least favorite is Narvaez for a bag of balls. The returns for Paxton and Segura were pretty underwhelming too.
Funny how his crown jewel was the trade that sent Ketel Marte and Taijuan Walker to Arizona for Segura and Haniger, then suddenly Marte becomes one of the best players in MLB out of nowhere. Those breakouts never seem to happen for players developed by Seattle. Paxton I suppose would be the closest thing. Kyle Seager is the exception that proves the rule, really the only good position player they’ve developed since ARod. Point being I fault Seattle’s player development more than DiPoto’s trades themselves because his inability to develop his own players was what forced him into so many risky trades of guys like Lopez and Yarbrough in the first place.
That’s a double edged sword. It’s pretty hard to see a guy develop when you trade him away at 22 like they did with Marte. Or 23 like Taijuan Walker. Neither got much of a chance to develop.
Lewis, White, Gilbert, and Kirby are DiPoto’s 4 first round picks. That’s not a terrible group of prospects.
Getting a draft pick in return for Narvaez is a lot more than just a bag of peanuts.
Considering he screwed up two AL West franchises.
Thanks Jerry
A’s are too poor to ever be a real threat.
Do the Arlington Rangers need a new GM
Gotta be an A, just for entertainment purposes.
The last trade listed has $28.3K of international money space moving in the deal. I thought international money could only be dealt in units of $250K. Anyone have any insight here?
It’s $250K increments unless you’re cleaning out the remainder of your pool. So if you have under $250K left, you can trade that entire lump sum, which is what the Mariners did.
Thanks for your response, Steve.
DiPoto is the worst. He destroyed the Angels farm and then went to Seattle to do the same. Seattle will never win as long as he is the GM
You’re clueless
Guy traded Mike Clevenger for a below average relief pitcher with the Angels.
His entire trade history is horrible
Wow tell me where I’m wrong. Worst GM in sports. Sounds like you are one of his clowns that worship his feet honk honk
I think you have to understand the hate.
The hate is from this 10x longer than average list of trades. The end results haven’t been too bad for the Mariners but the man hasn’t been able to sit still since he took over the reigns.
I’m interested to see how he does with a complete rebuild. I’ll reserve judgment for a couple more years because he has assembled a pretty decent farm system. Ill be interested to see if he fights the urge to over tinker with his roster as it becomes competitive. Because it looks like they could have a solid foundation with White, Kelenic, J-rod, Gilbert, Dunn etc.
He made two trades all offseason but still you all say he can’t sit still.
Exactly!!!
*injures thumb scrolling to the comments
The modern day Frank “Trader” Lane.
Outside of taking advantage of the Mets and BVW, he’s pretty much running in place while sweating inordinately.
@themaven – I agree, and his running in place would have me giving him a “C”, but that trade with the Mets is worth a full grade IMO. I give him a “B”.
The Zach Lee for Chris Taylor trade is hilarious. Lee pitched one game for the Dodgers and gave up 11 hits and 7 ER in 4.2 innings. CT3 went on to be a valuable depth piece for the Dodgers who can play multiple positions, and while his SO numbers are bad, he does average 20 doulbes and 15 hrs a season, and was an NLCS MVP
Kelenic deal makes his GM tenure all worth it, tbh
Just a basic ‘C’ for me….so far! Mostly quantity over quality until the Cano/Paxton deals! Grade will slip if Kelenic, Dunn, Sheffield, Crawford don’t pan out, but will go up(possibly to an ‘A”) if these guys become stars! I personally think Kelenic will be a superstar(reminds me so much of a young Grady Sizemore) we’ll have to wait to see how these recent acquisitions play out at the major league level but at least there is some hope….finally! GO M’s!!!