Around this time last year, a trade for Nolan Arenado might have made sense for the Seattle Mariners. They had yet to execute their plan to have Jorge Polanco play third base, and even that one didn't work out the way they intended.
But this winter? Nah. No way. Arenado never made much sense for Seattle. The reasons felt self-explanatory, and one feels safe hazarding a guess that most Mariners fans could intuit what they were. Hence why calls for the team to revisit Arenado's were never coming from inside the house, so to speak.
Nolan Arenado-to-the-Mariners speculation can finally go away after Diamondbacks trade
There was, however, that one guy.