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Even a die-hard Mariners fan may want to buy a baseball program this year. Between the trades made at last season’s trade deadline, Mariner free agents that were not re-signed, and the pitchers the team picked up at the beginning of the year, there have been a lot of changes. Most projection systems place them at the bottom of the American League West with win totals in the 60s. Improving on that total will fall to the three new pitchers likely to make the starting rotation: Justus Sheffield, Kendall Gravemen and Taijuan Walker.

Justus Sheffield, part of the James Paxton trade, should make the...