Seattle Mariners Named "Buyers" if Trade Deadline Were Today
Aside from a few injuries to some key members of the starting rotation, everything has gone exceedingly well for the Seattle Mariners to this point in the season.
They enter Monday with a 26-19 record, the best in the American League West, but only five games ahead of the fourth-place Athletics. Seemingly every team in the division, but the Los Angeles Angels, still has a chance at taking it, and the Mariners will need to buckle down until the 2025 MLB trade deadline.
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With a little over two months to go until that date, it gives Seattle time to figure out where their true strengths and weaknesses lie, and what they should focus on improving through pilfering the bottom dwellers of MLB.
A recent article from Tim Kelly of Bleacher Report had something else in mind. What if the trade deadline were today? To this point in the year, if it were today, Kelly says the Mariners would be big time buyers.
"While Jorge Polanco has had a tremendous season at DH," writes Kelly, "the Mariners still have glaring holes in their lineup at both first and third base. As always, president of baseball operations Jerry Dipoto will enter trade season looking to add thump to the lineup. Just as we said at this time a year ago, Julio Rodríguez also needs to provide more at the plate. Elsewhere, Andrés Muñoz has probably been the best closer in baseball this season. But the Mariners would benefit from adding another trustworthy arm to Dan Wilson's bullpen."
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For more context, Seattle has received a .601 OPS from first base and a .686 OPS from the hot corner. Those marks rank 28th and 16th, respectively, and have dragged down their team OPS of .728.
The bullpen has been a solid unit to this point, posting a 3.48 ERA across 173 1/3 innings. That is good enough for 11th in MLB. While there is room for improvement, it may not be worth selling prospects for what would be a negligible improvement at best.
Regardless of it would be hitting, bullpen help, or both, Seattle would certainly be buyers if the 2025 MLB trade deadline were today, and may still be when it arrives in just over two months.
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