The Winter Meetings begin Sunday in Orlando, Fla., and prospects are certain to be on the shopping list for some clubs.
Which team will get the best holiday-season deal? Who has the prospect capital to make that kind of deal happen?
MLB Pipeline’s insiders tackled that question while previewing the upcoming meetings on this week’s Pipeline Podcast , as Jim Callis and Jonathan Mayo identified 10 teams with the prospects to swing big deals in Orlando. Callis and Mayo then assigned each club a "Trade Probability Grade," a hypothetical metric meant to mimic the 20-80 grading system used by scouts to evaluate the tools of baseball's best prospects, with an eye toward ranking the clubs best situated to swing a deal.
Mariners
Trade Probability Grade: 65 (Mayo)
They currently have eight

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