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YEAH! WHATS UP! So I'm not sure how i'm going to do this update.


As promised here is a listing of the mariners pitching situation..... not everything has comments on it ... i'll be going back and updating it on sunday ... so come back and check it...


Seattle Mariners ... as we all know, here are the possible Starting Pitchers

Felix Hernandez - RHP - 22 - He can't become a free agent until 2011... the team should lock him up ASAP.. which i'm sure they trying to do. he's so young and so awesome.

Erik Bedard - LHP - 30 - He's in the last year of his contract. The question is weather to keep him and sign him long term or trade him. doubtful we will get 1/2 of what we gave up for him but it could help in the proccess of reloading the Mariners farm system.

Carlos Silva - RHP 30 - sinker ball pitcher that has just completely gone south for the past two years. Since coming to the mariners he's maintained a WHIP of 1.6 and an ERA of 6.77 he has mysteriously come down with an injury the last month. i suspect we won't see him for probley another month. in which he will most likely move to the bullpen. where he may still find the ability to be successful in small douses.

Jarrod Washburn - LHP - 35 - Ive talked him up and down for all season. he won't maintain it, he's not a cy young pitcher. he's a solid #3 guy thats pitching like it with great defense behind him. don't get me wrong i'm not trying to discredit the guy at all. I just don't think he's "turned a corner" no fly ball pitcher gets away with only giving up 5 Hrs in 7 starts and an average of 6 innings a game. it just dosn't happen. it's going to go back up it's just simple statistics. unless of course he's on HGH.......ala Roger Clemens

Ryan Rowling-Smith - LHP - 26 - Mr.Aussie and fellow blogger has been quiet talked about since the move of Morrow back to the bull pen. in which has lead to some exciment but also doubt on weather or not he can make an impact and how largely on this rotation. Not just for this season but for the future. Of course he is still out and is expected to be out for another couple of weeks. Which kind of scares me because it just keeps getting moved back. I hope he gets well soon.

Chris Jakubauskas - RHP - 30 - he has no real quality pitch. There are times he shows his curve ball has the ability to be a better than average major league pitch but besides that(which comes and goes) his ability to throw strikes and keep his pitches in the zone are what keeps him a viable #5 pitcher.

Garret Olson - LHP - 26 - Olson has an average fastball for a left-hander at 89-92 MPH, though it touched a notch higher than that late in the season. It has a ton of life and he does a good job of keeping it low in the zone. Opponents at all levels had trouble lifting it for extra base hits. Olson is best known for his control of all hit pitches. just like Jakubauskas he should be a mid to later rotation guy.

Jason Vargas - LHP - 26 - Another solid Lefty that needs to work on the way ge aproaches right handed hitters. he finished #8 in the rookie-of-the-year voting in 2005 with florida. He seems like he has regressed in the last few years which is why he was included in the trade for JJ Putz. He has the talent but weather it calculates



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Andrew Baldwin - RHP - 27 - Aquired from Philly in the Jamie Moyer trade. I don't know if he'll be of any use. He's spent alot of time in the minors but so far this year he is pitching very well with a 3.43 ERA and a WHIP of 1.22 averaging only 5 innings

Gaby Hernandez - RHP - 24 - averaging 5 innings himself with a WHIP of 1.34 he was rated the best curve ball in 2007 within the florida marlins orginization. He was aquired for Arthur Rhodes at the trading deadline last year. although he was once a touted prospect his skills are regressing and it's been question if he'll ever turn into the pitcher people thought he could become. He has a high ceiling and could at best become a good #3 starter within a rotation, dosn't have ace written on him but he has very good stuff to take to the majors.

Josh Hall - RHP - 29 - he may at one point have been a prospect, now he has just become another arm low risk high reward if he should somehow cultivate while in tacoma.

Luis Munoz - RHP - 27 - Claimed off waviers mid way through 08 from pittsburgh, he started 2009 off in west tennesse he pitched pretty well and got permoted to tacoma. However, since pitching for the rainiers he hasn't pitched very well at all, i'm curious if they will send him back down. Not someone


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A Really great article on why you can't depend on prospects.

Washington Post Prospects

Seattle Mariners scouting Roster