Jerry Dipoto, busiest of bees

Why, I have seven moves in my head right now. - Joe Nicholson-USA TODAY SportsWinter meetings officially kicked off today, and the perception going in is that Jerry Dipoto has had, as the kids would say, no chill. Heck, a full day hasn't even passed and we've already shipped Carson Smith and Roenis Elias to Boston for Wade Miley and Jonathan Aro. We've had active General Managers, and we've had active off-seasons, but the sheer number of moves made by Dipoto prior to Winter Meetings has been pretty surprising and has left us pretty tired. Which got me thinking: is this volume actually unusual or does it just feel unusual? Put another way, where does Dipoto rank compared to other Mariners regimes? To find out, I used Baseball Reference's compiled RetroSheet transaction data to look at each year's pre-Winter Meetings transactions, going back to 2003, Bill Bavasi's first year with the club, through the "Trader Jack" Zduriencik period, to the present day.

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