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He may not be a grandmaster among grandmasters...but he's a more-than-solid GM...in four years he's taken the Mariners from among the worst farm systems in the league (and with not much in the MLB chest to trade to get any) to one of the best despite having already graduated a number of his best prospects over the last few years. He has demonstrated an ability to be flexible and change plans quickly when things didn't go his way, and he's batting at leas t.650 on his transactions working out as well as he planned. We can win our next pennant with Zduriencik. No doubt about that to me.