The other day, I was texting Jordan Schusterman of Céspedes Family BBQ, and we were talking about how, despite being an intensely imperfect team, the Mariners weren’t far off from being a playoff team in 2020. That led us to talk about how the Mariners pulled off what is perhaps the preeminent fleece jobs of the 2010s in trading Robinson Canó and Edwin Díaz to the Mets in exchange for a haul of mostly-prospects. Although public knowledge at this point, a lesser-known fact is that the trade was initially even more favorable for the Mariners, and that’s had quite the ripple effect.
The Mariners’ fleece job of the Mets was almost fleecier
