Grading the Mariners 2018 Winter Trades on 2019 Season Impact

The Mariners went into full-fledged rebuild mode last winter, making final judgment’s off those trades are years away. But what if we had to grade them based solely on 2019 production.

This is our third Mariners deal we have looked at through this odd and ultimately narrow lens, and the results early on have been quite surprising. First, we established that the Mariners actually got the better end of the Edwin Diaz and Robinson Cano deal in 2019 (adding insult to injury). Second, we saw that the Mariners dominated the Alex Colome and Omar Narvaez trade.

So in a few deals that are geared more towards the future than 2019, Mariners GM Jerry Dipoto actually did both. So today, we take a look at…