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As a good trade. I liked the trade for Morse regardless of the extra year of Jaso or the outcome. It was a good gamble on acquiring something that remains a big need of this team.
How about the Almonte acquisition? May be his best move to date.
Vargas for Morales? In retrospect it's hard to say which would have been more valuable to the M's, even with Vargas only making 24 starts. Vargas left a big hole but I think Kendrys would have too.
Fabian Williamson for Aardsma?
Leuke and cash for Jaso?
League for Leon Landry and Logan Bawcom.
The Morse/ Langerhans deal was initially lauded by many, even suggested by DC before it happened.
Silva for Bradley still looks plus to me.
Cleto for Brendan Ryan?
Jack Wilson for Luis Caballero could still pay dividends.
Did anyone know Fister was about to leap another plateau in about a week? Maybe Detroits scouting saw something and their coaching was able to help Fister implement it. Even that is on the coaching and scouting, not the GM except that he presumably hired many of the scouts and coaches. I get not liking the Fister deal at the time, though. It didn't look all that good to me then to the point where I thought I needed to wait and see. That did only make things look worse. But that's the big bad move.
Morrow deal was bad, but not looking as bad as it did then.
Carp trade was necessitated by preferring other options while Carp had a lack of options remaining.
Bedard and Fields for Chiang and Robinson looks pretty bad, though it didn't much affect either team.
The Washburn return looked decent at the time but didn't work out.
Delebar for Thames not so good but Thames later traded for Ty Kelly which does look good.
Many deals that are kind of "whatever" to look at otherwise where the affect on either team is minimal. Still waiting for actual impact for either team from the Pineda/Montero deal, though it's not looking good for the Mariners at this point. All 4 players involved have a chance to be positive in the future, just seems Pineda's is the biggest chance if not Campos.
The overall trade history doesn't look as bad as many make it out to be. Looks to me an overall plus with more minor upgrades that get ignored in focusing on a couple major downgrades.