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[h1]Mariners to go with six SP?[/h1]
The battle for the final spot in the Seattle Mariners rotation has all but ended, with Taijuan Walker appearing to have won the job. That said, the team may not stop at just five starting pitchers for 2015.
As Bob Dutton of the Tacoma News Tribune writes, "Club officials won't come out and say it, but signs point to the Mariners employing what amounts to a modified six-man rotation over the next six months in order to be ready to handle a seventh month. Yep, the Mariners are thinking postseason."
Dutton believes that because both Walker and James Paxton, should they both make 30 starts, would flirt with the danger zone for overwork: "Standards vary, but clubs tend to get antsy, in terms of injury risk, when a pitcher goes more than 40 innings beyond his previous season. Going more than 40 innings beyond their career high is another red flag."
By using Roenis Elias and, to a lesser extent, Jordan Pries and Danny Hultzen to lower the starts required by the first five members of the rotation, the Mariners could keep their staff from burning out before October.
Dude's only 24 too?!
How were his ST numbers?