The Mariners announced they’ve acquired first baseman Mike Ford from the Giants in exchange for cash considerations. It’s a reversal of the teams’ deal from two weeks ago that sent Ford from Seattle to San Francisco for cash.
Ford has pinballed between the two clubs as virtually the 41st player on both rosters. Seattle signed him to a minor league deal 0ver the offseason, then selected him to the big leagues while Luis Torrens was on the COVID-19 list. Once Torrens was healthy enough to return, the M’s designated Ford for assignment.
San Francisco jumped the waiver order by acquiring him, but the 29-year-old only appeared in one MLB game. The big left-handed hitter lost his 40-man roster spot yesterday when the Giants and M’s swung another trade, with San Francisco picking up utility infielder Donovan Walton for a pitching prospect.
The M’s now had a vacancy on the 40-man roster, and they’ll bring Ford back to the organization. The Princeton University product had acquitted himself well during his first run, hitting .317/.404/.488 through 11 games with Triple-A Tacoma. If the M’s are prepared to keep Ford on the 40-man this time around, he could serve as a left-handed bench bat for skipper Scott Servais or head back to the Rainiers as a depth player. He’s in his final minor league option year.
Any stats on Considerations? OBP,Avg, RBI? Any good?
Big? Is that the right word.? I am the same height as him but he’s listed at weighing 35 more pounds than me.
can mash the ball albeit not enough to secure a 40 man. good clubhouse/ personality guy you’d want to see do well
Weird. So giants just rented him for a day.
They had several players on covid list and IL and needed a body
The San Francisco Giants. LOL
Oh look, the troll trolling. Shocking.
As much of a fan as I am of Tony Gwynn, a Padres fan shouldn’t be trolling a team that’s won more World Series in the last decade than the padres have in their franchise history, routinely makes the playoffs, and is currently ahead of the Pads in the standings. It’s the equivalent of the town drunk trying to tease people.
Enjoy Robbie Cano
Hey Tony Gwynn
I’m just curious
are you all the things they say you are?
why don’t you ever respond with more than just the same comment
are you doing some kind of an experiment to see how people react to the same inane post?
do you do these same kind of posts on other comment sections on other sites?
3rd times a charm!
This should be illlegal
it’s loophole exploitation – this is how the dodgers were built too
Definitely. But a lot of teams do it as well. The Brewers and Mariners did it recently with Jacob Nottingham.
Would you rather Ford not have any job at all? Because that’s what would happen if a team did not have the option of trading or designating him. This is his last option year so it’s most likely his last season on a mlb roster.
Of all the battles to fight within MLB, teams swapping a 41st player candidate seems near the bottom of that list.
Third time now with the Mariners. Hopefully he will finally get in a game this time.
If he gets in a game it’s because someone got injured.
Or maybe they use him at DH some and see what happens
“Here you take him”. “No wait, we want him back. Amazon Prime allows us 30 days to process a return”
It’s Jacob Nottingham 2.0
Dipoto is the Scott Tenorman of baseball executives.
Strange
He’ll get picked up by the Yanks
$50k for 2 RBIs. not bad.
Would love to know the actual numbers exchanged for him, but amazing to see giants essential paid for a replacement for the day and he brought in 2 runs.
this was obvious with the move the other day that this trade was happening.
This is a new and different application to the phrase “ I want my money back”.
(Singing) Have you claimed a Ford on waiiii-versss… lately?
Another Mariner head scratching move.
“The Mariners are the “Titanic” of MLB. Every year they hit a iceberg and there season is sunk”
-Peter Gammons MLB Network
While the rest of the AL West is in CONTROL, The Mariners are in utter KAOS they to need GET SMART before it’s too late .
-Les Nesman-TV Guide Sports Analyst
It’s not a ‘head-scratching move’.
He was added to Seattle’s 40 to fill a void on the active roster, then DFAd right before Haniger returned. They didn’t know Haniger was going to get hurt in his first game back and there isn’t much MLB-ready power in reserve.
They had to DFA Ford to make room on the 40 and he didn’t clear waivers, hence the trade. Seattle now knows they won’t have Haniger for a while, they still don’t know when Lewis will be able to return, they don’t have an alternative for France at 1B with Moore & Toro getting more consistent time at various positions (and DH), and again, they don’t have much power on the Tacoma roster.
Ford serves as insurance and it costs them nothing to reacquire him. This shouldn’t upset (nor puzzle) anyone.
This isn’t a move fans should be upset with. If fans should be upset with anything, they should be upset that Seattle didn’t get another starting pitcher and outfielder in the offseason. They bet on/leaned on their youth heavily, which is odd given the postseason drought and belief that they were going to be in contention.
Sharing roster spots, smart move if you think he can help. Surprised more teams don’t do this with guys they want to keep available
Seems like it would have made more sense just to trade Walton for Ford
How’s that? They got a talented, young non-40 arm for Walton. They just return the dough they got from SF to begin with to reacquire Ford.
Somebody at least give this guy some MLB at bats
Mariners are also said to be interested in acquiring Steve Chevrolet.
.May possibly resurrect Mike Lincoln from the scrap heap.
They were in the conversation for Suzuki
They apparently had interest in Sam Dodge until they realized he died in 1966.
Don’t you see he’s trying to hit the ball not become the ball to be thrown to one another.
Why is JP Crawford NOT the lead off hitter?! He’s Hittin-n-walkin, alot!!