SEATTLE — The tanking team vs. the sinking team.
It's difficult to know which position feels more hopeless at the moment.
With their 4-2 win on a sunny Wednesday afternoon, the Oakland A's, who decided to go into a massive rebuild this offseason, trading away their two best position players and two top pitchers with more trades coming at the deadline to reduce payroll, put the Mariners, a team supposedly with designs on the postseason, into last place in the American League West by taking two of three games.
