Passionate Tales of a Blue Kitten

So, one of the things in Mariners fandom is that the front office is so good at keeping secrets that you generally don't hear about trades until they happen AND, if you hear about something, there's a good chance it's really going to happen. The Pineda/Montero trade is an awesome example of it as very little time passed from the first hint until all the details were known. (As beth_shulman pointed out, it's REALLY amazing that word didn't leak on the New York side.)

( The Pineda/Montero timeline. )

Of course, an alternative interpretation is this trade is taking a really long time, as it still isn't official!