As the trade rumors surrounding him began intensifying at the Winter Meetings, Luis Castillo was so far off the grid that he didn’t hear about them immediately.

The Mariners reassigned Castillo to minor-league camp Monday. After spending the past two seasons in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball, Castillo returned stateside over the winter, joining the ...

Now, I don't want to sound fatalistic: I'm not saying that Castillo is all of a sudden going to bottom out for the Seattle Mariners. He's still going to be good, and he'll have games where he ...