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...weird.  I had thought that Shawn Camp came into camp and looked like...Shawn Camp.  He got Dr. D's rubber stamp of reliability just the other day, and I think if anybody was asked about the weakness of this team, it would be the bullpen's likely inconsistency.  Delabar hasn't been able to nail it down, Kuo is gone now, most of the non-roster non-invitees have been moved over to minor league camp.  I think this means that Ramirez, Iwakuma, Milwood, Furbush, and Noesi have all made the team, and of course, not all of them can start, so they're pushing into the bullpen pretty hard now.

3 games worth.
3/3 v. Oak -- he was throwing 90+, but was wild
3/6 v. Reds -- down to 89ish, but less wild
3/9 v. Dbacks -- again 89ish but all the fastballs were strikes (only threw 8 pitches)
 
I have nothing against Luetge, but I don't see the need for him in light of Furbush, Robles, Butler and Moran, all of whom are headed toward LH bullpen roles.

They're not in a position to unceremoniously dump Iwakuma, though they can put him in the pen for awhile (apparently).
Obviously they love Erasmo and Noesi coming in with 93+ ammo.
They love Capt. Millwood as "veteran presence."
Beavan has done too well to have disqualified himself.
So that's 5 guys for 3 spots.  Two of them go to the pen.
If you want Furbush as a second lefty, and Ramirez and Iwakuma make the team as relievers, then no room for Camp.
Seems like essentially he lost out to Erasmo.

Beavan might re-located his 95 mph stuff in the pen.
Erasmo is giving you too much to send him down, same with Noesi, and Iwakuma is doing what you asked him to do.
On most teams the best pitchers are the starters.  If you have Felix, you don't make him a closer you make him a Cy Young winning starter.
I'm starting to wonder if the Ms are planning on making Future Felix a closer, though.  I mean, if you wanted a bullpen full of killers, you'd take some of your excess starters and move them over, right?  I mean, if they had good stuff.
Noesi and Erasmo are both throwing 94 as starters.  What can they do in the pen?
As this HBT article discusses, one of the best bullpens ever - if not THE best - is the 2003 Dodgers.
Gagne was a converted starter, Quantrill was a former swingman-starter who was deadly in the pen until he was overused, Shuey was a #2 pick OVERALL and minor league starter who was moved to the pen almost immediately a la Papelbon, Martin was a starter-made-closer, and Mota started for a year before HE was made a closer.
Talk about an All-Star, all-money bullpen.
We're currently aiming Robles (former starter), Snow (swingman), potentially Beavan, Noesi and Erasmo at the pen, all starters.  Could Paxton wind up as a closer instead of a 200 inning starter?  I would think (and hope) not, but if Hultzen and Walker both pass him up for starter slots and we have the need, we might make the same decision that the Red Sox did with Papelbon.
I've been thinking the Mariners are gonna have to find some way to deal with all this depth, pitching and hitting wise. 
What if their answer is to put a whole armada of bat-first players on the field and supplement their lack of gloves with a fist-full of Ks and utter lack of hits because they're putting 10 or 15 million dollar (WAR) starters in the pen as swing and set-up men once they've stuffed the rotation?
It's an interesting idea.  Get a couple of key gloves and let the rest of the bats do the talking around the absolute silence of pitchers playing catch with their battery mates.
Isn't that the Yankees, Bo Sox and Phillies plan when they can manage it?
~G

Baker has confirmed: Noesi, Beavan and Milwood round out the rotation, with Iwakuma and Ramirez in the bullpen.

But it's Iwakuma.  So does that make him this year's Shiggy Hasegawa?  Because I would think if Beavan struggles that Ramirez is the first guy outta the pen.
Maybe we're just making it really easy to bring up the kids in a couple of months.  We'll see how the offense does supporting these 5 in the meantime.
~G