Which players on the Seattle Mariners would be beneficial for the Colorado Rockies?

The Seattle Mariners have had a firesale of their players of late so, today, we will look at some of their players that could be fits on the Colorado Rockies.

The Seattle Mariners had an interesting 2018 season in which for much of the season, like the Rockies, they had a record well above .500 but they had a negative run differential.

While the Rockies finished with a positive run differential, the Mariners won 89 games with a negative run differential. In fact, by their run differential, they should have gone 77-85. Even with their 89 wins, they still finished 8 games back of the Oakland Athletics for the second Wild Card and in third place in the AL West.

Finishing in third place is part of the reason why the Mariners have decided to retool their team, as they don’t really see themselves as having a shot in their division, particularly with the Houston Astros.

Mariners general manager Jerry Dipoto (who used to be a reliever for the Rockies in the late 90s and later was in the Rockies front office) has been known to wheel and deal a lot on the trade market and between the day after the World Series and the publication of this article, which is 36 days (or five weeks and a day), he has made a lot of trades.

DiPoto has traded the players that played the most games at catcher (Mike Zunino), shortstop (Jean Segura, in a deal agreed upon in principle late Sunday night), center fielder (Guillermo Heredia), the team’s closer (Edwin Diaz), one of the team’s setup men (Alex Colome), arguably the team’s ace (James Paxton), and the biggest contract in team history (Robinson Cano).

DiPoto will almost definitely be making more trades in the coming weeks, especially with the Winter Meetings coming next week, so we will examine some Mariners that could make sense for the Rockies.