Josh Naylor's cousin is Athletics center fielder Denzel Clarke, and his younger brother plays for their Single-A affiliate south of Sacramento.

Josh Naylor smashed his first home run since joining the Seattle Mariners, giving Seattle a crucial lift in their AL West playoff chase.

Jerry Dipoto has a longstanding reputation for jump-starting the Trade Deadline market, and the Mariners’ president of baseball operations indeed sparked this year’s traction, with the first major domino falling to Seattle on Thursday night.