Lip Man 1 Posted June 16, 2019 Share Posted June 16, 2019 Leading the A.L. in home runs. Yanks give up a prospect AND Seattle is paying a lot of his salary. Only the Yankees. They strip bad teams of their best players AND get the idiots to help pay the salary to unload them. That's how winning organizations operate. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chitownsportsfan Posted June 21, 2019 Share Posted June 21, 2019 (edited) Absolute coup for the yankees. Frankly the Sox should have kicked the tires if this is all it took. One thing is for sure when the Sox are contending it will not be difficult to get an veteran slugger at a corner spot should their internal options not pan out. These guys are almost valueless. Jerry Dipoto is a bad GM, Hahn should try and do more deals with him. The Mariners should not have had to pick up that much salary. The did the same thing the Jay Bruce trade. They picked up that much salary and still only got a C+ type like Phen back. If that's the return you should just be patient. But patience is not in his vocab. The Mariners are going to be horrible for 5-6 years and they are selling their fans on competing in 2021. Good fucking luck. They have every spot on their roster outside maybe C, RF and SS and DH that will need filling with an average player or better should they want to compete in 2021. They have 4 rotation spots to cover. An entire bullpen. They have a middle of the road farm and no MLB assets other than Hanniger (which would open a hole at RF) to trade. And what would Hanniger even get? A couple good seasons under his belt but a major step back so far this year. Would he even get two "B" guys back? Two back end top 100 guys? Maybe. They are fucked. And they are lying to their fans with a straight face about competing in 2 years and how this is a "step back to take a big step forward". I say it all the time the Mariners make you feel good about being a Sox fan. They are horribly run and spit in their fans' faces all the time. They are lucky they are in the laid back PNW. There shit wouldn't fly in almost any other city. Edited June 21, 2019 by chitownsportsfan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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