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Felix and Kuma have been well managed this year. McClendon seems to generally pull the plug at 7 innings or 100 pitches, whichever is more. I took a gander at the baseball reference game logs expecting to find poor outings following high pitch count games and didn't find them.
Felix has only reached a 110+ pitch count three times, and had an excellent outing the next turn each time.
Iwakuma has never reached 100 pitches in any start.
It seems like pitcher safety is the Mariners' no. 1 priority. And thats as it should be, unless we are in the playoffs or something.