By Blaidd Drwg
It appears that Ian Snell‘s up and down career with the Mariners has come to a close as the M’s have DFA’ed him, which means they have 10 days to waive, trade or option him to the minors. If I am not mistaken, he has enough service time to refuse the demotion and become a free agent.
What do you want to bet he ends up with the Royals in the next week and a half? They seem to enjoy picking up the chaff that is cut loose from the M’s (although the Royals currently have a better record than the M’s), and Snell might actually improve their rotation.
FlatbreadGarden 
I get the impression that the M’s would *prefer* that he go the free agent route.
No real loss, as he cost the M’s almost nothing:
ESPN- August 1, 2009: “The Pittsburgh Pirates have dealt shortstop Jack Wilson and right-handed pitcher Ian Snell to the Seattle Mariners for shortstop Ronny Cedeno, first baseman Jeff Clement, and right-handed pitching prospects Aaron Pribanic, Brett Lorin and Nathan Adcock, the Pirates announced Wednesday.”
I’d be interested in looking at the career WAR of the players involved. Other than Jack Wilson it’s gotta be near zero.
Cedeno: -1
Wilson: +13.8
Snell: +7.2
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I was actually going to put together a follow up post about the trade. Basically, it turned out to be a disaster for both teams. I looks at WAR since the trade and it worked out as –
Snell -0.5
Wilson +0.2
Clement -1.1
Cedeno +0.2
I doubt that the Pirates will get anything from the “pitching prospects” they got in the deal, so this one is basically a wash. It did cost the M’s a couple million in salary, but nothing significant. I am going to do a post on Jeff Clement soon though.
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The larger career WAR figures that I gave were accumulated over a period of years. These are all about 1 WAR players, best case.
I think as much as anything this trade was Z taking the detritus of the Bavasi era that he didn’t like and flipping it for other stuff to look at.
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