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The Seattle Times
The Seattle Times
Texas is on pace to win 106 games. Houston is on pace to win 97. But if you’re part of the struggling Mariners’ front office, you might be equally concerned with a situation in Anaheim right now — a situation spelled O-H-T-A-N-I. You know it’s on the minds of Seattle baseball fans as the M’s are grinding through this sub-.500 season. The best baseball player in the world — Angels pitcher/slugger Shohei Ohtani — is set to hit free agency next season, when upward of $600 million could await. Nobody can know the Japanese phenom’s true thoughts except Shohei himself. But before the season began, o…