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Anyone else starting to feel like this is an unfortunate season for the Mariners to be stuck in the AL West? There are only 3 AL teams 5+ games over .500 right now... Oakland (+13), Detroit (+12), and Anaheim (+5). Those three teams are also the only teams scoring over ten runs more than they've allowed... at +98, +49, and +43 respectively. Of the NINE-count-em-NINE AL teams less than 5 games from .500... only the Mariners and Blue Jays have significant positive run differentials. The only other positive team is the Royals, at plus-blinkin-ONE. Baltimore is the only other near-.500 team not hanging out around -10 of worse.
Maybe the moral of the story is that we're in it, and that there's a huge amount of hope with Paxton/Walker/Montero/Franklin at various points on the periphery of helping. But I would really prefer that we have a better line at the first wild card, and not be staring up quite so forlornly at the Angels' huge lead on second. The early-season injuries could really come back to haunt us this year.