Darrin Beene is entering his seventh year at The News Tribune, having covered the Tacoma Rainiers in 2005 and Major League Baseball for two years before that. Beene, a former assistant sports editor at The News Tribune, also worked for the Los Angeles Daily News and Los Angeles Times. He lives in the South Sound with his wife and two children.
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The breakdown of the Eduardo Perez trade from the Mariners perspective is pretty simple. One, they needed help against lefties (Seattle is just 7-16 vs. left-handers this year) and two, shortstop is the deepest position in the minors so losing Asdrubal Cabrera was not that big of a hit.
Perez mashes – check out that .330 average with eight homers vs. lefties. That's a huge upgrade at the DH position, where he will see the majority of the time. Carl Everett, despite being a switch-hitter, is batting .169 vs. southpaws this year.
The odd man out in all of this is Mike Morse, who has looked good in his limited appearances this season. Morse, though, is young and needs to play, which he will do at Triple-A Tacoma.
Here's Mariners GM Bill Bavasi talking about the trade.
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