12/12/13: The Seattle Mariners sign 2B Robinson Canó to a ten-year, $240 million contract.
12/3/18: The Seattle Mariners trade 2B Robinson Canó and RP Edwin ` to the New York Mets for OF Jarred Kelenic, OF Jay Bruce, SP Justin Dunn, RP Anthony Swarzak, and RP Gerson Bautista.
5/20/19: The Seattle Mariners trade RP Anthony Swarzak to the Atlanta Braves for RP Jesse Biddle and RP Arodys Vizcaino.
6/2/19: The Seattle Mariners trade OF Jay Bruce to the Philadelphia Phillies for UTIL Jake Scheiner.
6/28/19: The Texas Rangers claim RP Jesse Biddle off waivers from the Seattle Mariners.
10/31/19: RP Arodys Vizcaino elects free agency.
3/3/21: The Seattle Mariners release Gerson Bautista.
3/14/22: The Seattle Mariners trade OF Jake Fraley, SP Brandon Williamson, RP Justin Dunn, and SP Connor Phillips to the Cincinnati Reds for OF Jesse Winker and 3B Eugenio Suárez.
12/2/22: The Seattle Mariners trade OF Jesse Winker and INF Abraham Toro to the Milwaukee Brewers for 2B Kolten Wong.
8/3/23: The Seattle Mariners release 2B Kolten Wong.
11/22/23: The Seattle Mariners trade 3B Eugenio Suárez to the Arizona Diamondbacks for RP Carlos Vargas and C Seby Zavala.
12/3/23: The Seattle Mariners trade LF Jarred Kelenic, 1B Evan White, and SP Marco Gonzales to the Atlanta Braves for RP Cole Phillips and RP Jackson Kowar.
In nine days, it’ll be exactly one decade since Jack Zduriencik shocked the world and did the impossible: persuaded a star free agent to sign with Seattle. It’s exactly half a decade since that particular dream died, with Zduriencik on his way to hosting a morning radio show and the Mariners facing the back half of that contract without tasting one ounce of success. Working with Mets GM and former Canó agent Brodie Van Wangenen, new M’s general manager Jerry Dipoto managed to slither out from beneath that financial obligation and pick up a top prospect in the bargain. All it cost was one of the best closers in baseball.
The Canó trade tree is a Choose Your Own Adventure book for the damned, full of desiccated limbs ready to snap under the slightest weight. All the Mariners have left to show for Canó, by adding Fraley and Williamson, are three middle reliever candidates and a replacement-level backup catcher. Those, and of course millions of dollars. Seattle allowed the Mets to buy Díaz as part of the deal in exchange for absorbing the majority of Canó’s remaining contract.
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