D-train wrote: ↑Mon Apr 18, 2022 10:47 pm
OMG this article on Jerry's "brilliant" 2015-16 additions is HILARIOUS especially the LL tweets shining his balls. Check the scraps he brought in to try to push the core over the tops. Absolutely pathetic.
btw one of the others was Dae Ho Lee.
But why were he and his staff furiously making moves to acquire players like Nate Karns, Joaquin Benoit, Steve Cishek, Nori Aoki, Leonys Martin, Steve Clevenger, Wade Miley and Adam Lind (among others)? The roster Dipoto inherited relied too much on the “what if” game. As we saw in 2014, there was the possibility of this squad, constructed how they were, of being successful.
https://thesportsdaily.com/2016/02/24/why-seattle-mariners-gm-jerry-dipoto-won-the-2015-16-mlb-offseason/
That's what I was getting at on the Kraken page. Remember Z with a last place team trading for Russell Branyan at the deadline, crazy. Never a plan, just a commitment to mediocrity
I often called Seattle Mariners’ GM Jack Zduriencik the “Teflon Don” this offseason. No matter what move or lack of move he made, it was given some positive spin. It was like he could do no wrong.
Only Vince McMahon had more people in his “Kiss my ass club” than Zduriencik did this offseason. But now that Teflon is starting to wear off. The Mariners are in last place in the AL West, they are one of the worst teams in MLB, and now Zduriencik has made one confusing trade.
On Saturday night, the Mariners traded prospects Ezequiel Carrera and Juan Diaz to the Cleveland Indians for 1B/DH Russell Branyan. Really?
