Buyers or sellers?
What label will be attached to the Mariners in the 17 days leading up to the Aug. 1 Major League Baseball trade deadline?
As they prepare to return from the All-Star break Friday night against the Houston Astros at Safeco Field, the Mariners are neither. Seattle is good enough to be just over .500 and with some postseason hope, but still not quite good enough to easily say, ‘We’re going for it.”
In May the Mariners seemed destined to be buyers. They were 10 games over .500 and atop the AL West standings.