The Seattle Mariners began the winter in need of two big bats, and they have filled one-and-a-half of those spots by re-signing Josh Naylor and agreeing to terms with Rob Refsnyder on a one-year contract on Monday.
The Refsnyder signing came out of nowhere, as there hadn't been any buzz connecting the Mariners to the veteran utility man before it happened. It's a one-year, $6.25 million deal, according to Chris Cotillo of MassLive, which is a decent chunk out of the roughly $15 million budget for new salaries that the team carried out of the Winter Meetings.