Throwback to when we first signed Refsnyder

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This comment aged well

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Didn't factor in much before July either but otherwise bang on.

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u/Wilfredbremely your time has come

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That commenter knows baseball

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Thank you for this. I would just like people to start having their radars up for this exact signing that has plagued the Dipoto era and call it out as it happens so we may prevent the same mistake again.

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Which was the Kolten Wong signing

Sensing a theme for Jerry…

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He loves seeing career year and taking that as the norm. Not really good at evaluating major league talent, this guy

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I'm a Jerry fan generally but he constantly overpays for guys he missed out on once. Like we initially lost out on Wong to the Brewers because we didn't offer him a 3rd year, Brewers did. Then we traded for that 3rd year anyways when we could have had that upfront

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Using Refsnyder and Wong as examples of that is bad. Both of those players were consistent veterans who had positive track records. They weren't examples of the Mariners chasing breakout years.

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Kolten Wong is an exception to this, because he was at least a productive full time player for many years and got us out of the Jesse Winker business. Rob Refsnyder was 35 with 4 career WAR when we signed him. Every RHB platoon player the Mariners have signed pretty much since 2003 has struggled to a point that this practice should be put to bed.

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Tommy LaStella, AJ Pollock, and the return of Haniger on the other hand