On the day of the trade deadline, there are teams that buy and teams that sell. Those teams that believe themselves to be playoff contenders look to acquire the missing pieces they think will get them there, and those teams who have accepted that they are not playoff contenders know who they have that others will want, and what they might be able to get for them. For a team like the Mariners, this is the last opportunity to profit off of the good year somebody like Mike Leake, who won’t be with us when we contend again anyway, has had.
Mariners Stretch Losing Streak to One
