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A list of current Mariners who are free agents at the end of the season:

David Aardsma: Currently lighting it up in the closing role. Legit sale piece. (Update: Aardsma is not a free agent at year's end. He is, however, still possible trade bait.)

Miguel Batista: Owed money and been merely average out of the pen.

Erik Bedard: Started off excellent, petered out a bit and currently is about to hit the one month mark on the disabled list.

Adrian Beltre: Even with his offense as horrid as it has been, his defense was still stellar and on pace for about 2.5 to 3 wins. He might have still fetched some interest at the deadline. And now he's on the shelf for two months.

Russell Branyan: Awesome. Legit sale piece.

Endy Chavez: Outstanding defense and expected level of offense would have made him a possible package piece to a team valuing outfield defense. Out for the year.

Ken Griffey Jr.: hahaha.

Mike Sweeney: hahaha.

Jarrod Washburn: Shiny ERA! Shiny ERA! Get him quick, other teams. Seriously, he's owed quite a bit of money still and his numbers are starting to slip. Compounding that are some balky back and knee issues. Fantastic.

Losing Beltre and the extended absence of Bedard makes this team much more unlikely to contend, even in the weak AL West. And if this team tanks over this difficult stretch of schedule and the front office decides to sell off their short term assets, they are now left with just a few pieces, Aardsma and Branyan, that might fetch much of anything somewhat valuable back in return.

Buy or sell was an interesting discussion a few weeks ago. Now it looks like the team is unlikely to be in position to do either. Well played, Scrappy. Well played.

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Maybe we could possibly maybe trade Lopez too?

But, meh.

Our only hope is that Bedard actually comes back to start against Boston and pitches very well in July.

I am totally for trading Branyan now if these next couple weeks don’t go so well.

by OlSalty on Jun 27, 2009 6:56 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

If were to try and buy what prospects do have

that would fetch something useful for the big club?

"If your good at something never do it for free." - The Joker

by houseofprime on Jun 27, 2009 6:58 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

So it is

I don’t know how we got to June without me knowing that.

by Jeff on Jun 27, 2009 7:01 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

So knowing that, do you still trade him?

I say we’d need to get something pretty slick back, but I’d love to see Jacky Z sell him high. I love him and the value he’s given us is immense (Fabian Williamson?). I’ll really think he’s a good relief pitcher. But he’s not this good. He’s just not.

by DAMellen on Jun 28, 2009 12:31 AM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

If we're out of the race I definitely sell high

Aardsma is well ahead of his peripherals and we don’t need him down the road.

by Jeff on Jun 28, 2009 12:57 AM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

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