How Taijuan can help Jerry Dipoto, Seattle Mariners

In the offseason between 2003 and 2004, the Mariners traded injury-prone shortstop Carlos Guillen to the Tigers for Ramon Santiago and Juan Gonzalez (nope, not the real one). In Santiago’s mere 27 games in Seattle through two seasons, he was as memorable to the team as Pokey Reese in 2005.

Due to an obvious underperformance as a Mariners, Santiago was spat back out to the Tigers. The cruel irony is that not only did he and Guillen become teammates in 2006, but they also went on to play in the World Series and play together another five seasons.

This wouldn’t be the first time that two trade counterparts would join hands in the same uniform shortly after. First-stint Taijuan Walker was no…