..I don't think acquiring Washburn would push out Snell, Fister etc. It might for a short time but the Mariners have an entire rotation behind Felix that is unlikely in the extreme to be able to pitch consistently for 140 innings, let alone 200 innings.
RRS hasn't thrown more than 120 innings in any one season in quite some time.
Ian Snell may or may not be effective enough to warrant that kind of playing time even though his arm can clearly take it.
Brandon Morrow SHOULDN'T pitch more than 100 innings next year given that he has never done that since college and it's a terrible idea to double somoene's workload in one season.
Silva may or may not ever be effective enough to return ot the rotation.
Vargas, Olson and Jakubauskas have all essentially proved they can't handle that job at the big league level.
Doug Fister...he probably has enough arm to go 200, but banking on him to do so is goofy given his inconsistent results to date.
There's a REASON that my planned rosters in recent comprehensive off-season planning posts have all included not one but TWO rotation spots that are shared by two starters. In one such plan, I bought Harden or Sheets and Bedard for my SP2 and handed SP3 to Morrow AND RR-S, SP4 to Ian Snell and SP5 to Doug Fister. Why can't you sign a Jarrod Washburn, have him take SP3, and make Morrow beat out RRS for SP5?
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