If someone has only published one scientific article back in 2011 since receiving their doctorate in 2009 , then no academic would consider that person a practicing neuroscientist . He ' s just a philosopher . <| sep |> I ' m sure most Amish people know what electricity is they chose not to use it . <| sep |> Yeah this is how websites and forums die . Such a blatant abuse of power and violation of trust and ethics that it ' s quite literally impossible to overstate this breech . Holy fuck ! !<| sep |> It ' s interesting that the Diamondbacks are finally getting Taijuan after that Upton veto someone in their player development system must really like him down there . As for how this trade shakes out . there ' s a lot of uncertainty on both ends of the deal . The Mariners just traded off a down , but certainly not out former blue chip pitching prospect who ' s had good but not great peripherals over his first two years in the bigs in an offseason market where pitching is HIGHLY sought after . And the return they got kinda mirrors the point at which they ' re selling on Taijuan we ' re getting back some odd pieces . Before I talk about the pieces we ' re getting though , let ' s talk about Taijuan Walker and Ketal Marte . Walker entering age 24 season , 4 years of arbitration left on contract , former top 10 prospect in baseball in ' 14 . Walker ' s potential has still yet to be tapped . And unlike positional players , pitchers tend to peak earlier in their careers , primarily within the first few years of their debut . Since Walker has more or less pitched like a middleback end of the rotation pitcher over his two full seasons as a starter , there ' s reason to believe he may never reach the potential star player gurus believed he could become . All of that said , if Walker can get his HR issues in check , his peripherals speak to a significantly better pitcher than we ' ve seen thus far . His new home park probably will not help in that department . Perhaps the most interesting part about this deal is that the Mariners significantly weakened the back end of their rotation in moving Walker and got nothing in return that they can point to in terms of rotational help at the big league level . As things stand right now , Felix , Kuma , and Paxton are the only mainstays in that rotation . We can assume guys like Karns and Miranda will get significant work and I think it ' s safe to say that the Mariners will be vigilant in signing or trading for at least one , if not two pitchers with ML experience . Marte entering age 23 season , 2 years of prearb and 3 years of arbitration left on contract , was an intriguing prospect but never a top one . Marte ' s a bit of a mixed bag as well . A lot of people saw the 1 . 5 to 2 WAR season over ~ 250 PA ' s in ' 15 and assumed he would be a mainstay at shortstop for the M ' s for years to come . Those expectations were far from met in Marte ' s incredibly underwhelming full season performance in ' 16 where he managed to be below average in the field and at the plate and turned in a sub 0 fWAR year . His bat will almost assuredly get better next season , and his glove may or may not follow but Marte looks to be a below average shortstop at least for the here and now . With nobody else in the system to step up at the SS position , the M ' s needed to get one in return . and so they did . The Mariners got themselves Jean Segura entering age 27 season , 2 years of arbitration left on contract made $ 2 . 6 M in ' 16 , expect that to jump significantly in ' 17 due to his break out season , was a top ~ 50 prospect back in ' 12 . the 2017 Seattle Mariners new starting shortstop after our program chewed up and spit out Ketel Marte , Brad Miller , Nick Franklin , and Chris Taylor is someone who was the 4 th worst shorstop in all of baseball out of 40 from ' 14 to ' 15 among players to have 500 PA ' s at the position . Granted , he was 24 and 25 years of age over those two seasons , but those seasons certainly haven ' t been erased from the recordbooks . Segura is an unknown who has elite potential , and it ' s tbd whether or not the Mariners can keep him at elite levels here in the PNW but damn if that elite potential of his isn ' t juicy . Last year , Segura ' s bat was a notch or two below Kyle Seager ' s while he terrorized the basepaths and played average defense at the premiere defensive position . Theoretically , if the Mariners had replaced Walker and Marte ' s seasons with Segura ' s and a below average replacement for Walker the M ' s could have been in a much tighter race for the Wild Card . There ' s a lot to be said here about how it ' s highly unlikely that Segura repeats his ' 16 performance his BABIP was wildly high , as were his power numbers when compared to his career averages . but Segura is in his peak years , so to speak . The likelihood is that we ' re going to get a toned down version of Segura ' s ' 16 , that is hopefully closer to ' 16 than ' 15 or ' 14 . And the question becomes how big of an upgrade over Ketel or over some of the other trade options out there is Segura ? To be determined , what an awful phrase . Mitch Haniger entering age 26 season , 6 years of team control , never much of a top prospect . Haniger ' s a bit of a tossin here who has decent defensive skills matched with some interesting potential bat skills . Most likely a 4 th 5 th OF type , but there ' s an outside chance that he might be able to hit enough to warrant a team to take a longer look at him in the outfield . Don ' t be surprised if the M ' s find him a decent amount of PA ' s in ' 17 with hopes that his bat comes around at the big league level . Zac Curtis entering age 24 season , 6 years of team control , not much of a prospect . Curtis looks like a tossin , but he ' s actually one of the more interesting pieces exchanging hands here , in my opinion . Curtis offers an exciting array of possibilities as a lefthanded relief pitcher who has posted gaudy KBB rates throughout his minor league career . He doesn ' t blow away batters with heat , but Curtis ' fastballslider combination look potentially lethal moving forward as a reliever . Of note , he actually has been more effective against righties over the last two seasons in the minors might be interesting to see if the team tries to mold him into a LOOGY role , or if they take what he has to offer and use him as just a solid potential reliever .