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About a year ago, I looked up the reactions to the M's trading for Randy in '89. It was funny, because apparently none of the players liked it-Langston was a popular guy. Jim Presley said “This is a sad day for Mariner baseball" and Harold Reynolds said “This crushes me." But Johnson was already pretty cocky about what he could do in MLB. I think if anything, he's been slightly underrated, maybe because of that whole neglected West Coast player issue.