You think Toronto's baseball team has been a disappointment? What about a team that won 116 regular season games three years ago and over 90 wins each of the last two, and now sits at 18 and 31 (3.5 games worse than the Jays).
The M's replaced a young Carlos Guillen with an old Rich Aurilia and have lost on the deal. 2003 bullpen linchpin Rafael Soriano had dead arm to start the year and is now injured. Defensive anchor Mike Cameron departed in the off-season and young starters Gil Meche and Joel Pineiro have struggled. Edgar Martinez might finally be nearing the end of his shelf-life and there isn't much on the farm that will jump-start the offence.
Seattle has the worst slugging percentage in the American League and are 13th in runs scored.
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