Even Jerry Dipoto has limits to his creativity when it comes to making seemingly impossible trades as Mariners general manager.
Unfortunately for Dipoto and the Mariners, those restraints may be just too much to overcome in the next nine days leading up to the Major League Baseball trade deadline.
If he were to somehow swing a trade to move a player whose speed is his biggest asset but is currently on the injured list with a quad strain, well, he could trade a fleet of snow plows to the city of Phoenix.
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Tuesday afternoon, the Mariners placed second baseman Dee Gordon, one of a handful of veterans Dipoto was hoping to trade before the July 31 deadline, on the 10-day injured list with a left quad strain.