blstoker
Bill Bergen for HoF!
The trade should've got everyone in position of power fired on the spot, Jack for doing it, Howard and Chuck for allowing it to happen, any scout who was in Jack's ear saying ya, these guys have potential enough to justify it.
Fister hasn't "blossomed in Detroit" He was fucking blossoming and arguably the Mariners best pitcher over Felix. Not even hindsight, looking strictly at the time what the hell was he thinking? Fister was under team control for a minimum of 4 years. There was not one positive aspect about that trade nor was there anything down the road, unless god reached down and turned Wells and Martinez into all star caliber players, that could made it even a compatible trade.
I'm happy that Furbush went from a horrible reliever to an average reliever, but to say anything positive about that trade means you are Jack Z or someone in the Mariners organization trying to save face.
Not even close to being anyone in the organization, I just don't think it's a sky is falling move. I wish Fister were still here, he would easily have been a better option in our rotation than Harang, Bonderman or Maurer this year (or Millwood, Beaven or Noesi last year). That doesn't mean that the team got nothing. True, Furbush didn't pan out as a starter like the team hoped he would be, but he has been more than solid as the LH out of the pen.
I actually didn't like the trade at the time, and yes, it is clearly a lose when concidering how the players involved have performed, but it isn't like Furbush has been so bad that he shouldn't even be in the big leagues.
Also, if we're talking trades that we don't like, I don't like the Vargas trade. I'm sure to be in the minority with Morales batting .280 and 14 HRs, but with the problems the M's now have in the pitching staff, the offensive moves haven't produced enough to save a pitching staff that is allowing 0.5 more runs a game (the offense is scoring 0.1 more runs per game than last year). I'd much rather have Vargas than Saunders, or at least trade one of the before mentioned RHs for Vargas' LH.