Mariners trade Kyle Lewis to the Diamondbacks for OF/C Cooper Hummel

Photo by Stephen Brashear/Getty ImagesAfter adding Teoscar Hernández to their outfield mix yesterday, the Mariners thinned the outfield crop a little today with a trade, sending former Rookie of the Year and first-round draft choice to the Arizona Diamondbacks in exchange for C/OF Cooper Hummel.

Hummel was an 18th-round draft pick of the Brewers in 2016, and was traded to Arizona in the 2021 Eduardo Escobar trade along with Alberto Ciprian. His major calling card is his ownership of the strike zone; he’s run double-digit walk rates every year of his career, including in 200 plate appearances in the bigs this season. He struck out a little more often in 2022, which is expected when a player…