Feelings about the Mariners’ rotation right now range from significant trepidation to torches and pitchforks right-side-up tridents. Last year was a disaster of historic proportions (remember the three weeks where Yovani Gallardo was the de facto No. 1 pitcher? The White Sox remember), and the design of this year’s rotation doesn’t feel dramatically different. With over a month of transactional inactivity on the 40-man roster, the entire rotation is getting a tacit vote of confidence from Jerry Dipoto and the front office, to the chagrin of many fans. Through that support, no player on the Mariners, or perhaps in all of baseball, should feel more emboldened by this winter’s inactivity than Marco Gonzales.
Marco Gonzales lowered his arm slot and raised his ceiling
