That’s right, the Mariners dumped relief pitcher Julio Mateo on the Philadelphia Phillies for solid prospect minor-league role player warm body… you know, who cares? They took out the garbage.

If you recall, Mateo was arrested in New York back in May:

Mateo, 29, was arrested after turning himself in to police Saturday evening. Police say around 2:30 that morning, the reliever returned to the team’s hotel, where an argument ensued with his wife, Aurea. The criminal complaint says Mateo punched her in the eye, choked her and bit her lip, resulting in a cut that took five stitches to close. Three children, including the couple’s month-old son, were in the next room.

And then later we found out that on April 28:

Police were called to Mateo’s Dexter Avenue North apartment on the morning of April 28 after a dispatcher reported hearing a heated argument and two hang-up calls to 911. When two officers arrived, they found Mateo’s wife, Aurea Mateo, and her sister crying in the hallway near two broken phones. Police said Mateo’s wife put her hand on her neck and stuck out her tongue, as if she was being choked.

He’s not exactly the cute cuddly guy the Mariners like to run out there for all the children to look up to and the teenage girls to swoon over. Heck, he’s not even the cuddly sort of convict those women who write letters to prisoners swoon over. The fact the Mariners got a living, sentient lifeform (pending routine medical exam) is the shock of the day (today, of course, being the trade deadline).

Adios, Julio. And good riddance.