wazzu31
Never go full Husky
I think with Fister it was a "strike while the iron is hot" type of thing. He was pitching really well, the Mariners had a ton of pitching set to come up over the next few years and maybe they thought that, as good as he was before he was traded was as good as he was ever going to get, so they better trade him while he still had that much value. I don't know. I also don't know why they wouldn't trade Vargas at that time either. Maybe what I'm saying is a bunch of crap, but I'm just trying to look at it from their POV to figure out why they would make that trade at that time.
I can see your point, but if anyone in the front office were to ever say that shit, every Mariners fan has one quick response to put them in their place. "If there is so much pitching on the way, and you are a cheap ass organization, then why is just under a 1/3 of your payroll going to 1 starting pitcher"