The Miami Marlins didn’t wait for the Winter Meetings to begin cleansing their payroll of onerous contracts. All-Star second baseman Dee Gordon is headed to the Seattle Mariners, as first reported by The Athletic’s Ken Rosenthal. The trade is now official:
But there’s a twist: Sirius XM’s Jim Bowden hears that the Mariners expect to convert Gordon into a center fielder. Across seven MLB seasons, he has never played a defensive inning anywhere but the middle infield.
Jarrod Dyson primarily manned that position for them in 2017.