 The Seattle Mariners selected Grant Jackson from the New York Yankees with their eleventh pick in the 1976 Major League Baseball expansion draft.A month later, they traded Jackson to the Pirates for Reynolds and Jimmy Sexton.Reynolds immediately became the starting shortstop in Seattle, where his light hitting usually had him at or near the bottom of the Seattle batting order, however, his lack of strikeouts and ability to move runners over landed him in the second spot in the batting order early in the season.