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For the Mariners:

King Felix vs. Mike Fiers
James Paxton vs. Doug Fister
Miranda vs. (I think) Alcantera
Walker vs. Cotton
Iwakuma vs. Manaea
King Felix vs. Mengden

The Astros roughed Felix up his last time out, but he has since adjusted his pre-start routine and made a tweak to his pitch sequencing at Stottlemyre's urging.

The Mariners miss Sonny Gray - he has had a terribe year, but I am, nonetheless, happy to see that, since he is well capable of locking us down.  Manaea/Iwakuma is the start I'd worry about most against the As.  And, because God seems to think James Paxton needs to learn humility, I worry about all of his starts, no matter how dominant he appears, since his BABIP is like .971.

Paxton would get the ball in a wildcard game or play-in game.  If we have to play a play-in game to get to the WC, Paxton would go, then we'd be in deep doodoo, because we would have no choice but to either throw Walker on 3 days rest or start Miranda in the WC game the next day.  Gyaaahhh.

If we got to the WC game directly, we'd be able to use Paxton after the off day...get another off day, and then skip right to King Felix to start the ALDS (rotation would go Felix, Iwakuma, Paxton with the extra off-day during the ALDS)

Meanwhile, Baltimore is stacked up thusly:

Gausman vs. Sanchez
Tillman vs. Liriano
Gallardo vs. Stroman
Miley vs. Pineda
Bundy vs. ? (Severino is in this slot but he only pitched 1 innings last time...and not, apparently due to injury or severe ineffectiveness)
Gausman vs. Cessa

That Yankee series looks very favorable to the Orioles.  :(  And they have been able to line up the top of their rotation for the Jays series as well.