The Mariners decided they needed another outfielder, as they are likely to trade away Jesse Winker, so they traded a good reliever with a few years of team control and a prospect for one year of Teoscar Hernandez from the Blue Jays.
Meanwhile, the end-of-season awards process continues to discredit itself. Justin Verlander and Sandy Alcantara were each unanimously selected as their respective league’s Cy Young winner. Each of them had perfectly reasonable cases to win the award, but so did Shohei Ohtani and Kevin Gausman on the AL side and Aaron Nola and Carlos Rodon on the NL side, three of whom weren’t even selected as finalists for the award, and with Gausman finishing tied for ninth on the AL side and only garnering one fifth place vote.