Now This One I Get

Washburn to Detroit, LHPs French, Robles to Seattle.divbr //divdivUnlike a href="http://lefarkins.blogspot.com/2009/07/what.html"my snap assessment/a of the last major trade made by the Mariners (which a href="http://lefarkins.blogspot.com/2009/07/good-deal.html"Scott/a and I initially disagreed on) this one makes perfect sense for a selling club.  While the two pitchers coming Seattle's way are a href="http://ussmariner.com/2009/07/31/luke-french/"probably not/a as "stellar" as the a href="http://bats.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/31/washburn-traded-to-the-tigers/?hp"NYT blog suggests/a, it is an excellent return a href="http://ussmariner.com/2009/07/31/washburn-to-detroit/"according to Dave Cameron/a over at USS Mariner./divdivbr //divdivWhat the NYT did get right was that Washburn was traded at perhaps the peak of his value, which is excellent GM-ing in anybody's book./divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7163938-443653245453484167?l=lefarkins.blogspot.com'//div