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Larry Stone: Soto Mojo? Here's how Mariners can go from baseball sensation to World Series contender

For starters, know this: It would be supremely painful. That is the only part of this whole exercise that isn't debatable.

You don't trade for a generational player such as Juan Soto at age 23 without wincing, intensely debating if it's really worth it, wondering if you've gone crazy, wincing again, and only then pulling the trigger. The offer would have to be massive, perhaps unprecedented — so much so that at some point you'd be left wondering, as an organization, if you're giving up so much it defeats the whole purpose of acquiring him.

And yet I still think the Mariners should jump into the Soto Sweepstakes.

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