Ask any Mariner fan and they’ll tell you that starting pitching is the team’s biggest need. Getting better at the position is easier said than done. Considering that the Mariners don’t have the prospect capital to acquire a pitcher of significant value through trade, they have to enter the fray of the highly competitive free agent market.
Thankfully, this offseason has a relatively wide ranger of starting pitchers, especially at the top. Not only will teams be vying for Corbin, but J.A. Happ, Dallas Keuchel, Charlie Morton, Nathan Eovaldi, and Aníbal Sánchez, among others, will garner quite a bit of attention.