The News Tribune · Feb 2, 2018
Maybe the Mariners’ starting rotation won’t be as bad as you think it will
There’s just no way that can happen again.
No way the Seattle Mariners will have to go so deep into their farm system and so far into other team’s rotations just to find pitchers who can start games.
“I never imagined I’d have to go through a season where I used 40 pitchers,” Mariners manager Scott Servais said. “That has made me a better person and manger.
“The adversity and things we went through last year I would not wish upon anybody, and we will not go through it again.”
Only one other team in baseball history has used 40 pitchers in a season (the 2014 Texas Rangers).
And no other team in Mariners history used 17 starters like the 2017 team did.