The trade: The Texas Rangers send CF Leonys Martin and RHP Anthony Bass to the Seattle Mariners for RHP Tom Wilhelmsen and OF James Jones.
New Mariners GM Jerry Dipoto has been working quickly to remake the Mariners, and his latest trade brought in the team's likely starting center fielder for 2016. Martin struggled in 2015 and lost his job to Delino DeShields Jr. but he was a 3.5-WAR player in 2013 and 4.6 in 2014, thanks to some excellent defensive metrics.