A couple of days have gone by since the Seattle Mariners pulled a Harry Ford trade out of nowhere on Saturday. The trade is certainly a win for Ford himself, and it also resembles a win for the Mariners from a certain perspective. Yet lingering in the background is a slightly more ominous question: Should it have come to this?
Some Mariners fans are up in arms that the team would trade Ford, ranked by MLB Pipeline as the league's No. 42 prospect, for a seemingly middling left-handed reliever like Jose A.