Trade Retrospective: That time the Mariners almost traded Taijuan Walker

We continue our look at the deals and trades that were discussed but never came to fruition. And, once again, we have a deal in which the Mariners would have dealt Taijuan Walker.

When you cover a team that has made over 100 trades the past 4 years, you aren’t exactly strapped for trade content. The Mariners and GM Jerry Dipoto have been very good to us in that way. But we don’t hear about most of the trades that are discussed. For the 100 or so trades Dipoto has made, there have likely been more than 500 discussed with varying degrees of likeliness.

But for this writer, I have always been fascinated by the deals that were discussed that never got done. I read through the chapter “The Trade…