toddpedlar
Iron Dramatist
It is also worth noting that Jack may be a UFA next year. So for 5 prospects the Mariners got a rent-a-player that is on the downside of his career and a RHP that asked the Pirates to send him to AAA because he could not take the pressure of MLB.
This is why I don't engage in such discussions often.... there's always an answer when obviously hyperbolic statements (e.g. "Pirates GM gets away with Armed Robbery") are made