Over the past few years, the Chicago Cubs have been signing pitchers with injury issues to low-cost deals with team options, hoping to strike it rich and hit on a future rotation member for cheap: names inked by the Cubs have included Drew Smyly, former Mariners first-rounder Danny Hultzen, and now the newest member of the Mariners organization, Kendall Graveman.
Graveman is familiar to Mariners fans as a member of the Oakland Athletics starting in 2015, when he came to the A’s as part of the widely-panned Josh Donaldson trade.