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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.