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Leone & Smith should be on the big league club if they earned it, and it most certainly looks like they have. I think the larger fear is a return to Carter Capps ineffectiveness due to such a pronounced lack of experience working their pitches in the minor league game. So, if the SSS jumps up and bites them, the wrong lessons are learned, because failure or success is over magnified.
If a batter needs a certain number of at bats at the minor league level to prepare for major league competition, it seems to me relief pitchers do as well. I say, stretch them out in Tacoma, pitch lots of innings in long relief. Or follow the Mariano Rivera blueprint: the best relievers are failed starters.
But again, promoting experienced mediocrity over excellence sends the wrong message to the players in the organization. Youth must be served.