Player decisions this past off-season

[D-train]

This was the plan for the INF this season along with having an OFer in Raley play 1B.

[Hy Feiber]

1. Brought back Mitch Garver, hoping for a "bounce back" that is obviously never going to happen.

2. Took a pass on Pete Alonso who would have been easy to sign. Even if he wasn't off to a hot start and just hitting at his average standards, him in the lineup would probably have us close to .500 right now.

3. Turned down Triston Casas and Masataka Yoshida for Luis Castillo. This would be okay if the Mariners had signed Alonso, but since they didn't, this might well be a bad no-trade although we'd have to see how the season progresses on this.

4. Decided that Ryan Bliss was our everyday second baseman. The ceiling for Bliss is probably that he'll be a similar player to Dylan Moore, which is kind of a compliment but not really much of one.

5. Didn't seek out an alternative for J.P. Crawford, who has lost his bat speed and isn't ever going to get it back.

6. Signed Donovan Solano as our big free-agent pickup. While Solano has been a decent hitter, he's 37 and is looking like yet another one-year-too-late pickup.

7. Signed Jorge Polanco after previously deciding that he wasn't good enough to be on the team. This might actually work out, which will unfortunately convince ownership that their approach is the right one.

8. Signed Rowdy Tellez who had almost nothing left in the tank and apparently used up the rest of it in spring training.

Man, even the one thing that has worked out so far (Polanco) might still blow up on us, and it's doubtful that any of these dumb decisions will work out.

About Garver, were he a Japanese businessman, he would’ve done the honorable thing by now, committed hara kiri.

I wonder how it would feel, getting 24 million bucks for nothing?

[Michael K.]

Alonzo is off to a good start, he's got as many doubles as strikeouts, five, pretty amazing

If you watch the Mariners? That is more than amazing, it's impossible!

[Michael K.]

Yeah, bringing in guys to bridge with short term deals would been nice. But I don't see what that has to do with Alonzo or bregman, that's a different situation. Probably trades would made more sense if you're interested in a couple years of control

The Mariners way. Hold on to our own because they will be the future. Started with Gil Meche and Joel Pineiro and then it was a long list of others!

[Seattle or Bust]

1. Brought back Mitch Garver, hoping for a "bounce back" that is obviously never going to happen.

2. Took a pass on Pete Alonso who would have been easy to sign. Even if he wasn't off to a hot start and just hitting at his average standards, him in the lineup would probably have us close to .500 right now.

3. Turned down Triston Casas and Masataka Yoshida for Luis Castillo. This would be okay if the Mariners had signed Alonso, but since they didn't, this might well be a bad no-trade although we'd have to see how the season progresses on this.

4. Decided that Ryan Bliss was our everyday second baseman. The ceiling for Bliss is probably that he'll be a similar player to Dylan Moore, which is kind of a compliment but not really much of one.

5. Didn't seek out an alternative for J.P. Crawford, who has lost his bat speed and isn't ever going to get it back.

6. Signed Donovan Solano as our big free-agent pickup. While Solano has been a decent hitter, he's 37 and is looking like yet another one-year-too-late pickup.

7. Signed Jorge Polanco after previously deciding that he wasn't good enough to be on the team. This might actually work out, which will unfortunately convince ownership that their approach is the right one.

8. Signed Rowdy Tellez who had almost nothing left in the tank and apparently used up the rest of it in spring training.

Man, even the one thing that has worked out so far (Polanco) might still blow up on us, and it's doubtful that any of these dumb decisions will work out.

About Garver, were he a Japanese businessman, he would’ve done the honorable thing by now, committed hara kiri.

I wonder how it would feel, getting 24 million bucks for nothing?

"The hardest season of my career." "Fans are so mean."

Then quit.

[DavidGee24]

Alonzo is off to a good start, he's got as many doubles as strikeouts, five, pretty amazing

If you watch the Mariners? That is more than amazing, it's impossible!

Of course there's no guarantee that Alonso would have gotten off to a hot start in a Mariner uniform, but over the course of a season he's a 30-45 home run guy who'll likely have an OPS in the .800s. At the very least, imagine giving Rowdy's 23 plate appearances to Alonso and how much the games would change if that happened.

[DavidGee24]

This was the plan for the INF this season along with having an OFer in Raley play 1B.

It's just mind-blowing that a team with a World Championship-caliber pitching staff (accounting for the return of Brash and Taylor) would put together an infield like this ON PURPOSE.

[D-train]

Alonzo is off to a good start, he's got as many doubles as strikeouts, five, pretty amazing

If you watch the Mariners? That is more than amazing, it's impossible!

Of course there's no guarantee that Alonso would have gotten off to a hot start in a Mariner uniform, but over the course of a season he's a 30-45 home run guy who'll likely have an OPS in the .800s. At the very least, imagine giving Rowdy's 23 plate appearances to Alonso and how much the games would change if that happened.

Rowdy and Solano both

[bpj]

If you watch the Mariners? That is more than amazing, it's impossible!

Of course there's no guarantee that Alonso would have gotten off to a hot start in a Mariner uniform, but over the course of a season he's a 30-45 home run guy who'll likely have an OPS in the .800s. At the very least, imagine giving Rowdy's 23 plate appearances to Alonso and how much the games would change if that happened.

Rowdy and Solano both

And they didn't even add Tellez until late February as an afterthought.

They seemed perfectly happy to run Luke Raley out there, even though that eliminated their depth in the outfield.

Such buffoonery with this org.

What did they think would happen when an injury hit the outfield or rotation?

[D-train]

Then with the rotation when they actually had a good depth piece in Logan Evans they went with a s*** show horrific version of Luis Castillo