This shutdown sucks. It is the smartest and most responsible route to tack, but it does leave us with a lot of time to kill and an opportunity to look back at the Jerry Dipoto regime with some hindsight. So today, we break down his second trade as Mariners GM.
But before we do, let’s remember that in this series, we will tackle all the trades that involve at least one player exchanging teams and on a rare instance, we will look at some of the deals that were for cash or international slot money. While a deal may have made sense at the time it was made, a lot of these deals have tangible results we can grade the deal on.