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With the MLB trade deadline looming and the Seattle Mariners on the cusp of a playoff birth -- despite being in the midst of a "rebuilding" season -- here are 6 players they should consider unloading to stay the course and look towards long-term success.

Recently, a young fan of the Seattle Mariners suffered a fate that all of us have dreaded experiencing -- even if in the back of our minds -- when attending a baseball game. Being hit in the face by a foul ball!

Seattle Mariners outfielder Mitch Haniger cranked both his 9th and 10th home runs of the 2021 season to pull into a tie for the American League lead in round-trippers but it wasn't enough as the M's bullpen couldn't hold on to a 4-1 lead late in the game at Chavez Ravine against the defending World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers.

The Seattle Mariners finally got some offense out of their much-maligned 5-9 batters and got another sterling performance from the arms in the bullpen en route to a 7-4 series-opening victory over the Los Angeles Angels at T-Mobile Park tonight (April 30).

While not even 20 games into the 2021 season, this year's Seattle Mariners squad is already making their case to be dubbed the "Cardiac Kids".

On Jackie Robinson Day, which celebrated the 74th anniversary of the breaking of the color barrier in Major League Baseball, the Seattle Mariners, fittingly, defeated the Baltimore Orioles 4-2 in the first game of a twin bill en route to a sweep and a 3-1 series win that vaulted the M's (8-5) into first place in the American League West.

In just their fourth game in Cactus League play at the Peoria Sports Complex in Arizona, the Seattle Mariners are already showing some promising power in the batting line-up.

Major League Baseball conducted Rounds 2 -5 of their annual amateur selections yesterday (June 11) and the Seattle Mariners used their selection in the 5th Round to pick a pitcher with some ties to the Yakima Valley.

The Seattle Mariners accomplished a bit of team history today - and vaulted themselves back in to the the AL pennant race - by beating the defending champion Houston Astros today.

The most surprising team, thus far, as it relates to the 2018 MLB season, is clearly the Seattle Mariners. Today they were rewarded with that by getting three of their players tabbed to the AL All-Star team.