Nori Aoki signed with Mariners in part to win a World Series, but mainly to get good coffee

We always appreciate when athletes are honest about why they sign with a certain team. Usually it's because the team offered the most money or the team plays in a warm climate, but Nori Aoki kept it realer than most when discussing why he chose to sign with the Mariners

Aoki says he came to Seattle "for the coffee and also to win a World Series."

— Bob Dutton (@TNT_Mariners) December 4, 2015

This piece of honesty from Aoki shows Seattle may have found an inefficiency in the way teams recruit free agents. Someday in the near future, coffee will replace cold hard cash as the currency that drives how free agents determine their next landing spot, and when that happens the Mariners will be the new Yankees.