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Posted: **Wed Mar 12, 2008 7:38 pm**

and so he faced the final curtain:

http://www.rotoworld.com/content/player ... LB&id=3428

Mariners released LHP Horacio Ramirez.

Today was the last day a team can release a player on a nonguaranteed deal and still be on the hook for just one-sixth of his salary. Beginning tomorrow, it will be a quarter. GM Bill Bavasi's latest roster-management mistake cost the Mariners about $460,000 and prevented Ramirez from getting an opportunity to begin the spring with a team that may have wanted him. He should have been non-tendered in December, but the Mariners only ruled him out of their plans after the Erik Bedard trade.

Thus ends the final chapter of one of the worst trades in Mariners history.

Posted: **Wed Mar 12, 2008 9:13 pm**

Heh. Loved this quote from Bavasi (having clicked the link from Rotoworld):

"We did not believe Horacio was going to break camp with us,'' Mariners GM Bill Bavasi said in a release. "We felt it would be in everyone's best interest to give him time to catch on with another club.''

Everyone, that is, except Ramirez, who is out $2 million.

But it's obviously a good move, even if the $460k that Bavasi flushed down the toilet is a sunk cost.

(I originally wrote that as "suck cost"... Freudian typo, I guess.)

Posted: **Tue Mar 25, 2008 4:09 pm**

well... let the numbers spoke for themselves...

Posted: **Thu Mar 27, 2008 3:18 am**

Didn't we give up Soriano for him? God that trade pissed me off. And then we go and keep the guy for one season. Sheesh.

Posted: **Thu Mar 27, 2008 10:31 pm**

mcorrie1121 wrote:Didn't we give up Soriano for him? God that trade pissed me off. And then we go and keep the guy for one season. Sheesh.

It could have been worse: we could have kept him for two seasons.

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