The only thing that may have been more prolific than Jay Bruce's ability to mash dingers over the last week has been the ability of his name to pop-up in trade rumors with the August 1st deadline barreling down on us all. The latest team to be reportedly interested in the Cincinnati Reds RF: the Seattle Mariners, according to Jerry Crasnick of ESPN (and formerly of the Cincinnati Post.)
On paper, Bruce's thunderbat wouldn't provide a great boost to the Seattle outfield production, since their outfield's collective 111 wRC+ ranks as the 7th best in all of baseball.