I don't get it. I have a hard time imagining that Dipoto expects Gallardo to be in the rotation in April.* He was just trading to clear a spot for Dyson, which then makes one wonder why they picked up Smith's option at all. I suppose they thought they could actually get something for him. As it turned out, this looks like an x-million dollar mistake, x being equal to whatever the difference is between Smith's salary and Gallardo's minus the cash Baltimore sent along. Say that is $2 million. Apparently not the end of the world for the big-market Mariners!
But even if your goal was to get Dyson all along that means you were planning on an outfield where you've got two guys you know can't hit plus two guys who never have. Boy, that's a gamble. All those referenced outfields of KC and St. Louis actually had some guys who could hit. The '85 Cardinals were the closest analog, I think, with McGee, Coleman and Van Slyke. Those guys took away a couple of gappers every night, it seemed. This was before Van Slyke became a hitter so the style's similar, except that McGee hit .350. Throw in Ozzie Smith at SS, three starters who went for 250 innings and you have the run prevention model to die for.
Unfortunately, we don't have Ozzie or the pitchers.
On the other hand, we've got Seager-Segura-Cano-Valencia, one of the best offensive infields in history, with a probably 20-homer guy behind the plate.
* Sure does make you wonder whose bed Nate Karns was sleeping in.