People dont understand how terribly imbalanced this team is, and this in part has led to issues itself. Honestly if Seattle made a good offer for EE, I would trade him in a heart beat for a prospect.
EE isn't going to dictate whether or not we climb back into the race here. Its going to be Tulo, Martin, Travis's return and so on. EE is struggling big time, plus a free agent to boot. At this point he would be left accepting a qualifying offer from us. He has barely been above average, and for a DH that is not good enough. We can easily place Bautista in that role half the time, get him off the field, bring in Travis to DH some times as he heals and becomes a regular again and so on...
I would even move Dickey if I got an offer.