It may have only been a brief 12-game stint for the Mariners right-hander, but Scribner proved that he was worth the $807,000 he signed for coming from the Oakland Athletics via a trade at the end of the 2015 season.
Mariners GM, Jerry Dipoto, had been familiar with Scribner’s game even before he himself settled down in Seattle.
As the GM for the Los Angeles Angels, Dipoto’s Angels faced Scribners Athletics nearly 70 times during Dipoto’s years with the Angels from the beginning of the 2012 season til his resignation from the team in July of 2015.