MINNEAPOLIS — The dream of the postseason is done for the Mariners, erased by a nightmarish run of mostly bad, inconsistent baseball that stretched from April till July with only a few hints of success.
Though not mathematically eliminated from contention, common sense and logic point to the Mariners moving forward with thoughts of 2016 as they play out the string of 59 remaining games this season.
It became that much more apparent when they made two more trades just before baseball’s 1 p.m. (PDT) non-waiver trade deadline, giving up their best reliever and a member of their starting rotation in deals to bring back young players under club control.