Mariners set starting rotation
Posted on February 24th, 2008 - 11:45 am by BaseballTalkOnline
Everyone knew that the Mariners rotation would be headlined by Erik Bedard and Felix Hernandez, but the question marks surrounded the rest of the Mariners rotation. Ask no more, John McLaren has given us the answers.
After their co-aces, the Mariners will go with Carlos Silva, Jarrod Washburn and Miguel Batista in that order. Batista is fifth only because Washburn is left handed and McLaren didn’t want to pitch their two left handers back to back. McLaren said that he could skip Washburn in the rotation just as easily as skipping Batista. Just because Batista is slotted as the fifth starter doesn’t mean he will be treated as one.
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