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Whether it is Cano or someone else, I've said for a long time that the Mariners need the baseball version of Reggie White going to Green Bay. A player acknowledged as one of the best in the game going to an unexpected place. At that time, the Packers hadn't been a winner for 25 years and were living on past glory. They had just hired Mike Holmgren and traded for Brett Favre. But when Reggie went to Green Bay the next year, it made people sit up and take notice. Look what's happened there since then. If it changes the perception of players about Seattle being a great place to play and makes us a more attractive destination, then that's worth something that you can't measure with WAR or any other statistical metric.
Having said all that, I still don't see Cano coming here. I think that as usual, Seattle is being used as the stalking horse so his agent can get more out of another team.