MLB Trade Rumors publishes their Top 50 Free Agent Predictions article every year and this year, they are predicting the Mariners will sign 2 players inside their Top 50 free agents overall. And perhaps unsurprisingly, both are starting pitchers.
It’s also not too surprising that both players predicted to sign in Seattle are two of the names we have already covered this winter; Julio Teheran and Alex Wood. What is interesting is that the two starters fill different needs for the same rotation in 2020.
Teheran is a safe, reliable, innings-eating, back-end starter who is a good bet to make 30 starts, cover 160 innings, and give his team average or slightly below-average production at the end of the year.