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Worst Mariners trade ever

DerekJohnson
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Worst Mariners trade ever 19 votes

Trading Danny Tartabull for Mike Kingery, Scott Bankhead and Steve Shields
0%
Trading Jason Veritek and Derek Lowe for Heathcliff Slocumb
57%
DerekJohnsonBennyBeaverRoadDawg55YouKnowItTequillaHFNYForeskinWalletDawgHanseeHall78doogieBleachedAnusDawgFecalFeast 11 votes
Trading Phil Bradley for Glen Wilson and Mike Jackson
5%
alumni94 1 vote
Janet Reno
36%
RaceBannonCuntWafflegreenblooddnctheknowledgeEl_K1to392831weretaken 7 votes
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  • DerekJohnson
    DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 68,513 Founders Club
    Trading Jason Veritek and Derek Lowe for Heathcliff Slocumb
    https://12up.com/posts/remembering-red-sox-mariners-trade-jason-varitek-derek-lowe-heathcliff-slocumb-01e5xdy1pvrp


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  • DerekJohnson
    DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 68,513 Founders Club
    Trading Jason Veritek and Derek Lowe for Heathcliff Slocumb
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  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 114,099 Founders Club
    Janet Reno
    Junior
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  • greenblood
    greenblood Member Posts: 14,560
    Janet Reno
    I don't think it was the trading that killed them as much as the stupid contracts they offered to big name free agents.
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  • HanseeHall78
    HanseeHall78 Member Posts: 156
    Trading Jason Veritek and Derek Lowe for Heathcliff Slocumb
    #2 worst trade (behind Veritek and Lowe for Slocum): Omar Vizquel and Reggie Jefferson to Cleveland for Felix Fermin.

    Vizquel won nine straight AL Gold Gloves at SS, eight of them for Cleveland after being traded from the Mariners after the 1993 season.
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  • theknowledge
    theknowledge Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 5,647 Founders Club
    Janet Reno
    1991. Bill Swift, Dave Burba and Mike Jackson for Kevin Mitchell. Swift between 92-95 went 48-22 as a starter and led the NL in ERA in 93 and won 20 in 94. Dave Burba from 92-2001 went 103-75 as a starter and Mike Jackson was a damn good middle reliever with Seattle and for a decade after they gave him away. Burba in particular would have looked great in Seattle in 95 and 97 when the team was desperate for quality starting pitching. Kevin Mitchell played one unspectacular year in Seattle hitting .286 with 9 HR and 67 RBI in 99 games. That was a bad trade. Maybe not the worst but really bad.
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  • DerekJohnson
    DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 68,513 Founders Club
    Trading Jason Veritek and Derek Lowe for Heathcliff Slocumb
    theknowledge said:

    1991. Bill Swift, Dave Burba and Mike Jackson for Kevin Mitchell. Swift between 92-95 went 48-22 as a starter and led the NL in ERA in 93 and won 20 in 94. Dave Burba from 92-2001 went 103-75 as a starter and Mike Jackson was a damn good middle reliever with Seattle and for a decade after they gave him away. Burba in particular would have looked great in Seattle in 95 and 97 when the team was desperate for quality starting pitching. Kevin Mitchell played one unspectacular year in Seattle hitting .286 with 9 HR and 67 RBI in 99 games. That was a bad trade. Maybe not the worst but really bad.

    I always loved Action Jackson. He would pitch the 8th, record two outs in the ninth, and then Bill Plummer would pull him and bring in Mike Schooler, who would give up 2 runs but hold on for the save. I never understood why Jackson wasn't the closer.
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  • theknowledge
    theknowledge Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 5,647 Founders Club
    Janet Reno
    DerekJohnson said:

    theknowledge said:

    1991. Bill Swift, Dave Burba and Mike Jackson for Kevin Mitchell. Swift between 92-95 went 48-22 as a starter and led the NL in ERA in 93 and won 20 in 94. Dave Burba from 92-2001 went 103-75 as a starter and Mike Jackson was a damn good middle reliever with Seattle and for a decade after they gave him away. Burba in particular would have looked great in Seattle in 95 and 97 when the team was desperate for quality starting pitching. Kevin Mitchell played one unspectacular year in Seattle hitting .286 with 9 HR and 67 RBI in 99 games. That was a bad trade. Maybe not the worst but really bad.

    I always loved Action Jackson. He would pitch the 8th, record two outs in the ninth, and then Bill Plummer would pull him and bring in Mike Schooler, who would give up 2 runs but hold on for the save. I never understood why Jackson wasn't the closer.
    He was seen as a specialist. I think he got a chance to close later in his career but he was an elite set up man. Kinda like Jeff Nelson. Come in for three or four batters, look dominant and then hand it over to Wettland or Rivera. By 95 Swifts arm was on the outs but Burba in the rotation and Jackson in the pen would have been huge. I never will understand trading two proven major league arms and a good pitching prospect for a power hitter when you had Buhner, Griffey and Martinez already on the roster. All of them young or relatively young. What in the actual fuck? Mike Schooler. One decent year bought him two more on the big club well after everyone figured out he sucked. Those 80s and 90s Mariners were hard for a young baseball fan to swallow. Danny T is on your list. I’m pretty sure they shipped out Ivan Calderon the same year. He had some good years with the White Sox. It’s like a rabbit hole. I gotta go.
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  • ForeskinWalletDawg
    ForeskinWalletDawg Member Posts: 238
    Trading Jason Veritek and Derek Lowe for Heathcliff Slocumb
    theknowledge said:

    DerekJohnson said:

    theknowledge said:

    1991. Bill Swift, Dave Burba and Mike Jackson for Kevin Mitchell. Swift between 92-95 went 48-22 as a starter and led the NL in ERA in 93 and won 20 in 94. Dave Burba from 92-2001 went 103-75 as a starter and Mike Jackson was a damn good middle reliever with Seattle and for a decade after they gave him away. Burba in particular would have looked great in Seattle in 95 and 97 when the team was desperate for quality starting pitching. Kevin Mitchell played one unspectacular year in Seattle hitting .286 with 9 HR and 67 RBI in 99 games. That was a bad trade. Maybe not the worst but really bad.

    I always loved Action Jackson. He would pitch the 8th, record two outs in the ninth, and then Bill Plummer would pull him and bring in Mike Schooler, who would give up 2 runs but hold on for the save. I never understood why Jackson wasn't the closer.
    He was seen as a specialist. I think he got a chance to close later in his career but he was an elite set up man. Kinda like Jeff Nelson. Come in for three or four batters, look dominant and then hand it over to Wettland or Rivera. By 95 Swifts arm was on the outs but Burba in the rotation and Jackson in the pen would have been huge. I never will understand trading two proven major league arms and a good pitching prospect for a power hitter when you had Buhner, Griffey and Martinez already on the roster. All of them young or relatively young. What in the actual fuck? Mike Schooler. One decent year bought him two more on the big club well after everyone figured out he sucked. Those 80s and 90s Mariners were hard for a young baseball fan to swallow. Danny T is on your list. I’m pretty sure they shipped out Ivan Calderon the same year. He had some good years with the White Sox. It’s like a rabbit hole. I gotta go.






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  • 1to392831weretaken
    1to392831weretaken Member Posts: 7,696
    Janet Reno
    I once traded a day of sitting at home and drinking for going to see the Mariners. Huge mistake.
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  • dnc
    dnc Member Posts: 56,839
    Janet Reno
    This is the ultimate abundance category. All the above plus:

    Tino Martinez and Jeff Nelson for Sterling Hitchcock and Russ Davis
    Shin Soo Choo for Ben Broussard
    Mike Hampton and Mike Felder for Eric Anthony
    Rafael Soriano for Horacio Ramirez
    Cliff Lee for Justin Smoak, Blake Beaven and Josh Lueke
    Asdrubal Cabrera for Eduardo Perez


    But the top 2 worst M's trades IMO
    2. Adam Jones, Chris Tillman and some other pitching prospect for Erik Bedard
    1. David Ortiz (Arias) for Dave Hollins
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  • Joey
    Joey Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 7,281 Founders Club
    Seattle has a baseball team?
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  • PurpleThrobber
    PurpleThrobber Member Posts: 48,117 Standard Supporter
    Ken Phelps! Ken Phelps!

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  • BennyBeaver
    BennyBeaver Member Posts: 13,346
    Trading Jason Veritek and Derek Lowe for Heathcliff Slocumb
    HanseeHall78 said:

    #2 worst trade (behind Veritek and Lowe for Slocum): Omar Vizquel and Reggie Jefferson to Cleveland for Felix Fermin.

    Vizquel won nine straight AL Gold Gloves at SS, eight of them for Cleveland after being traded from the Mariners after the 1993 season.

    Plus this really alienated the Old Women for Little O knitting group. Key Mariner demographic.
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