The Seattle Times · 30m
Seattle Mariners have made prospect Ryan Sloan untouchable in trade talks
LAS VEGAS — It’s not a word Jerry Dipoto uses often — or lightly. If anything, the Mariners president of baseball operations is disinclined to publicly label any single player “untouchable” when it comes to various trade talks.
In ongoing discussions surrounding Seattle’s starting rotation, though, executives at other MLB clubs say they have effectively been told the term does apply to one particular Mariners prospect this winter.
Ryan Sloan is, indeed, untouchable.
There appears to be an industrywide consensus that the Mariners are more likely to trade from their rotation than they have been in the past few offseasons, but Seattle has no intention of trading the 20-year-old Sloan.