Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Bait the Fish

The Mariners have given up on 2009.

The season started well enough. The games of April had that electricity that makes one want to watch baseball. Now at the end of May, the M's have fallen back toward initial expectations for the year - which were not high. At this point, the Mariners are lucky to have a pair of starting pitchers to dangle as trade bait.

What can we expect in exchange for Jarrod Washburn and Erik Bedard? Bats, please!

I'd trade them both for Hanley Ramirez. I'd even toss Yuniesky Betancourt into that deal. Any truth to the Matt Cain for Dan Uggla deal? Are the Marlins looking for starting pitching? Any way to pry away their prized shortstop?

Just a thought.

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