The only people I have heard really pushing the sell, sell, sell button are the talk show hosts who are need to fill air time. Bedard, Washburn and Branyan all are interesting acquisitions for deadline rumors.
Whether we want to admit it or not, teams don't look at the standings:
1)Themselves 4 games out of first place.
2) Two teams ahead of them
3) 5.5 back of the Wildcard
4) 70 games left in the season
These teams don't say "Yup, we have them right where we want them". While the Mariners aren't in a great spot they are in a great position to run down Anaheim should they slip up.
Most of the trade talk I have heard from local radio focuses on the great moves Jack Z. made this offseason. They feel that Zuriencik will pull yet another rabit out of this hat. In order to do this the club must find a team willing to part with players that are worth what we are giving up.
After coming into an organization that lacked depth, Zduriencik has been stocking up on players who might be able to help a major league team and he's been getting them for very little. The trade no one seems to be talking about that I thought was brilliant was the Langerhans for Morse deal. Z literally turned a piece with no future into an everyday leftfielder. That is robbery.
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