by Chris Sumner The Arizona Diamondbacks are a team that has been in an area between rebuilding and competing for a title. The grey area started in 2016, the fans thought the rebuild was over. Then A. J. Pollock broke his arm in spring training. Shelby Miller ended up under performing, and we had just traded the first pick in the draft a few years earlier, Dansby Swanson. It was the start of a new era of baseball in Phoenix for the fans of the Arizona Diamondbacks, or so we t

By: Manny Soloway (@_MLBNEWS18) The Seattle Mariners are full rebuild mode this year after trading away Robinson Cano, Edwin Diaz, James Paxton, Jean Segura, and some talented relievers. A lot of people are probably surprised by this. The Mariners won 89 games last year. They, for some time, were in serious contention for a playoff berth. In the end, though, the Mariners were only able to get to 3rd in a tough AL West, which included the Athletics and the Astros. The Mariners

Add the Mariners to the growing list of extreme all-or-nothing teams, which increases the odds that we’ll be seeing the same teams next October. The Seattle Mariners won 89 games last year, but that wasn’t enough to break the worst postseason drought in North American sports. If you consider the first clause of that sentence with the second clause — how sentences work, usually — you might be surprised that the Mariners are undergoing a dramatic teardown and rebuilding process