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Thursday, December 11, 2008

A big ol’ trade


This is way too complicated for 5:45 AM:

A blockbuster, 12-player, three-team swap Wednesday night landed the Mariners seven players, including strong-armed, fleet-footed center fielder Franklin Gutierrez from the Indians, but it cost Seattle right-handed closer J.J. Putz, who was traded to the Mets . . .

. . . Besides Gutierrez, the Mariners received from the Mets: right-handed pitchers Aaron Heilman and Maikel Cleto, left-handed-hitting first baseman Mike Carp, left-handed pitcher Jason Vargas and outfielders Endy Chavez and Ezequiel Carrera. Seattle sent right-handed pitcher Sean Green and outfielder Jeremy Reed to the Mets and infielder Luis Valbuena to the Indians, who also received pitcher Joe Smith from the Mets.

It will be interesting to see how Putz takes to pitching in the eighth instead of the ninth. Maybe not as interesting as it would have been last year -- Putz struggled mightily in 2008 and thus can't exactly throw any "I'm a big bad closer" stuff around -- but interesting all the same.
Posted by Craig Calcaterra at 5:46am (6) Comments

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