What's next for Bryan Woo?
The team should make two moves to perserve the rookie righthander's innings for the stretch run.
By Trevor Pedro

Mariners’ brass has gone on record about their desire to protect rookie Bryan Woo’s workload. Mainly because he’s never thrown more than 44 professional innings in a season until this year; he’s now at 70 innings with a little less than a month left. Manager Scott Servais skipped Woo this weekend for a traditional bullpen day, and there is a chance that won’t be the first time we’ll see the team empty the pen.
Bullpen days might be great for young starters like Woo, but it puts a tremendous strain on relievers. It also has lasting effects on the manager’s late-game decision-making, like we saw yesterday in Tampa when Servais was forced to burn both recently called-up Eduard Bazardo and Justin Leone for four innings. While that strategy likely recharged a lately overtaxed bullpen, the team should make a couple of moves to keep pace in the playoff chase.