Worst Mariners trade ever

Worst Mariners trade ever

  • Trading Danny Tartabull for Mike Kingery, Scott Bankhead and Steve Shields

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Trading Jason Veritek and Derek Lowe for Heathcliff Slocumb

    Votes: 11 57.9%

  • Trading Phil Bradley for Glen Wilson and Mike Jackson

    Votes: 1 5.3%

  • Janet Reno

    Votes: 7 36.8%
  • Total voters
    19
I'd say trading Adam Jones and Chris Tillman for Erik Bedard was really up there. Maybe the worst.
 
I don't think it was the trading that killed them as much as the stupid contracts they offered to big name free agents.
 
#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.
 
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.
 
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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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.
 
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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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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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.
 
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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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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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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Cleanup - aisle 6?
 
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
 
#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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Plus this really alienated the Old Women for Little O knitting group. Key Mariner demographic.
 
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