The Farther They Go, The Fresher The Mariners Bullpen Arms Become

More fresh arms mean the Mariners can game plan better.

If it wasn’t already clear, having fresh and available relievers ready to go for high leverage situations is extremely important. The starter’s ability to consistently provide a quality start has been beneficial to the structure of the bullpen. Typically during the season, there is some shuffling between AAA or even AA to get fresh relievers on the major league club.

However, recently it has been noticed that there has been a significant lack of roster moves that involve pitchers. Outside of Paul Sewald going on the Paternity List (congrats Paul!!), there have been zero roster moves involving a pitcher recently.

The continued health and performance of the pitching staff will help keep the Mariners alive in the Wild Card hunt. From here, the next challenge for the Mariners is getting their offense to provide some run support. Now that the team has proven that it can stay healthy (for the most part) it will be interesting to see what potential reinforcements are going to come when the rosters are expanded in September.

Will the Mariners bring up more hitters for bench depth? Or will they bolster their bullpen with more fresh and ready arms? Hopefully, the Mariners can find a way to break the 20 year playoff drought and bring playoff baseball back to Seattle!