Mariners acquire Craig Wilson

by BoUW on Jul 10, 2008 5:12 PM PDT Comment 55 comments

Per Yahoo, two minutes ago:

"PITTSBURGH (AP)—On a busy day in the Pirates’ minor league system, the team traded former starting outfielder Craig Wilson to the Seattle Mariners for a player to be named on Thursday.

Wilson was hitting .230 with 10 homers and 27 RBIs at Triple-A Indianapolis."

Source: http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_ylt=ApZPs5q.ZLYFLtklQwepj8Yn0bYF?slug=ap-pirates-marinerstrade&prov=ap&type=lgns

Sexson replacement? Wilson is at least a better defender at first than Richie was.

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Wait, what the fuck?

by Aaron Campeau on Jul 10, 2008 5:13 PM PDT reply actions

Wait, what?

When the hell did this happen?

by BrianL on Jul 10, 2008 5:18 PM PDT reply actions

I'm guessing this is more likely to fill the hole at AAA from today's transactions

than anything related to the ML team.

by Jed MC on Jul 10, 2008 5:20 PM PDT reply actions

He'd damn well better be on the ML roster.

by Aaron Campeau on Jul 10, 2008 5:22 PM PDT up reply actions

I don't know much about Wilson

can he contribute?

by BrianL on Jul 10, 2008 5:23 PM PDT up reply actions

Upon review of his MILB numbers, probably not.

I had no idea how bad he became. Dammit. I do remember his mullet fondly,

by Aaron Campeau on Jul 10, 2008 5:25 PM PDT up reply actions

Ha, me too.

by Kirsten Schlewitz on Jul 11, 2008 7:41 AM PDT up reply actions

Probably.

Nothing to write home about. Looks like he fell off a cliff after 2006.

by BrianL on Jul 10, 2008 5:22 PM PDT up reply actions

I remember wanting to trade Pineiro's corpse for him before he had injury problems.

I was told I was nuts.

by JI on Jul 10, 2008 5:26 PM PDT up reply actions

Why an outfielder?

Tacoma has several already.

by Gomez on Jul 10, 2008 6:13 PM PDT up reply actions

Sounds sounds redundant.

I fucking hate you Mariners

by kentroyals5 on Jul 10, 2008 5:26 PM PDT reply actions

Yeah, no kidding.

Those are pretty much Richie’s stats, but in Triple A. Sure he’s probably better at fielding, but is it really going to make much (or any) of a difference?

by LantermanC on Jul 10, 2008 5:53 PM PDT up reply actions

He may have been brought aboard to take LaHair's spot in AAA.

by BrianL on Jul 10, 2008 6:02 PM PDT up reply actions

I wouldn't be surprised to see Vidro released once LeHair is healthy.

But I would like a Wlad —> LF, Ibanez --> DH move much more.

by JI on Jul 10, 2008 6:03 PM PDT up reply actions

I hope they'll come to their senses

And either move Ichiro back to CF or move him to LF and put Wlad in right. I don’t like the idea of Wladdy in left with his pretty suspect defense.

by OlSalty on Jul 10, 2008 6:42 PM PDT up reply actions

I have a feling WLAD is not a part of the M's outfield of the future

Michael Saunders. Greg Halman. And Ichiro probably stays in RF.

2009 will probably be a year of placeholder OFs, but I suspect the aforementioned two will come up in the next year or two.

by Gomez on Jul 10, 2008 6:57 PM PDT up reply actions

by Devin on Jul 10, 2008 6:25 PM PDT reply actions

Dammit, I wanted

(Finally found that photo in a pile of old photos in the garage…)

My layout.spellcheckDefault goes to 11

by PositivePaul on Jul 10, 2008 9:45 PM PDT reply actions

by PositivePaul on Jul 11, 2008 9:56 AM PDT up reply actions

Spider Griffey?

"Holy Shit, It's Steve Perry lead singer of Journey". "ha, FORMER Lead Singer."

by RafaelCarmona22 on Jul 11, 2008 4:50 AM PDT up reply actions

hmmm

how much you wanna bet that if the Mariners were in a war, they’d trade for France?

--Dave
Addicted to Quack, SBN's Oregon Ducks blog

by David Piper on Jul 10, 2008 9:56 PM PDT reply actions

If it weren't for France we wouldn't exist

They may be smelly stupid French bastards but we have to love them

Determined, Jonesing Commentor

by Corco on Jul 10, 2008 10:36 PM PDT up reply actions

Quinn’s 45 career home runs surpassed fellow Royals alumnus Jamie Quirk’s total of 43, giving him the most home runs all time for a player who’s last name begins with a “Q”.

How the hell did he get his own commercial?

See what JI started by dropping the periods?

by JI on Jul 10, 2008 11:59 PM PDT up reply actions