SEATTLE — The Seattle Rays?
The Tampa Bay Mariners?
(Don’t laugh at that last one, as it almost happened in the early 1990s when then-Mariners owner Jeff Smulyan threatened to move the team to St. Petersburg, Fla.)
Tampa Bay and Seattle, which wrap up a three-game series Sunday at Safeco Field, might be in opposite corners of the country, but there seems to be a baseball pipeline between the teams.
“We’ve done a lot of trades with Tampa and they’ve got a lot of guys, a lot of ex-Mariners, over there and we’ve got a lot of ex-Rays,” Seattle manager Scott Servais said.