Last week, in maybe one of the last major pieces of national press the 2019 Mariners will receive before they regress to the .500 team predicted by most major outlets at the outset of the season, ESPN ran a lengthy article about the Mariners post-rebuild/stepback/stepbuild, which included a small bit on Connor Sadzeck, someone whose name had—and I’m only guessing here—most likely not been in a feature story on ESPN dot com up until this point.
Sadzeck’s name came up, in part, because of the unspoken question that hung over the Mariners while the offense was busy winning games and the bullpen was busy losing them: would the Mariners consider signing Craig Kimbrel, or making some other splashy move to prop up their poor pitching staff?