As the MLB Trade Deadline approaches, the Seattle Mariners have emerged as front-runners to acquire Arizona Diamondbacks’ third baseman Eugenio Suarez, heightening the drama around one of the season’s hottest trade targets.

The Seattle Mariners enter play on Wednesday at 57-51 and in second place in the American League West. They are four back of the Houston Astros in that race, an

The opportunity to do something at the trade deadline is there, and the Mariners appear determined to seize it. But the M's aren't desperate, either.