Then spun off Gohara and Yarborough for Segura. Feel any better?
I just want to see how the pieces fit. The Mariners scrapped nearly everything that wasn't the MOTO or their TOR arms and closer, and went to work rebuilding it with "options" and "possible solutions." I don't know how that congeals into a competitive whole yet - I just don't.
If Segura is last year's version, and Smyly is the version from 2-3 years ago, and the pen is more solid, and Paxton stays healthy and kills it, and Felix can at least pitch like a #2, and the MOTO repeats last year's glory, this team could be AMAZING. But hoping for the best is what got the Mariners to this point in the first place. DiPoto has planned for the downside by making sure he has a TON of replacement pieces that he home can provide a stoploss and stem the bleeding.
It still looks like a precarious construction to me. I'll have to step back and take a longer look at it as we head for Spring Training.