While Lucas French could make more of an immediate impact for the Mariners, many thought Mauricio Robles as the guy with the greatest long term potential between the two players that were traded for Jarod Washburn.  What’s interesting is Baseball America came out with a top ten traded prospect list and neither guy showed up on the list.  Robles did show up as an honorable mention (so he’s in the 11-15 range).  Everyone is worried that this is a John Smoltz for Doyle Alexander redux but my bet is, we didn’t get a Doyle Alexander and Robles isn’t the next John Smoltz.

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