I'm not "running the numbers"...I'm looking at the hand the Mariners are currently dealt and finding it hard to believe adding Branyan makes enough of a difference to change the bidding for free agents (who avoid this club even when we ARE considered a potential contender because the location is bad and the market is not impressive) to accept the use of players who have at least the potential to be useful down the road to acquire said player.
You're acting as though Branyan is a full time slugger...he's not. He can't stay healthy...never will stay healthy now that he's 34 and getting older looking looking every day at the plate, and he's unlikely to help us much at all when it comes to attracting free agents since he's still viewed as a marginal first baseman by the baseball community (see the global refusal to offer him a 2-year guaranteed contract or any significant money).
I wouldn't have had a problem with the Mariners trading for someone who could actually help us full time in 2011...Branyan is not that guy...he's just a waste of time that could be spent on developing something better.
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