The 2018 MLB Winter Meetings get under way Sunday in Las Vegas, but GM Jerry Dipoto didn't wait to get started. The Mariners have already made five major moves. That doesn't mean there aren't more to come.
LAS VEGAS — Could it happen again?
Ten years ago, the last time the Major League Baseball Winter Meetings were held in Las Vegas, the Mariners were part of one of the biggest trades in the history of the four-day festival of speculation, rumors and occasional meetings.
Then-general manager Jack Zduriencik, who had just been hired, was in the midst of culling payroll under the orders of Howard Lincoln, the Chief Executive Officer of Nintendo America, which had previously owned the team.