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Unless someone blows our socks off, sign Jason Vargas to an extension Camp!
At the begining of the year we thought:
Noesi would be a rotation staple (complete toast, at least for now)
Beaven would be a competent #4 (He may still be, but still requires lots of growth)
3 of the 5 or 6 super stud pitcher prospects (Walker, Hultzen, Paxton, Erasmo, Carraway or Wilhelmson [I still hold secret hope that he will return to the rotation some day]) would be pounding on the MLB door by the end of May!  Turns out the only one who is close is Erasmo and he is just coming off the DL
Millwood would picth well and be traded at the deadline (may still happen, although now we kind of NEED him just to finish out the year)
Finally Iwakuma was our backup to the backup to the backup plan that was a dice roll chance of getting a #3 out of mid air.  He may still work out but we still don't know, and again he is no longer a backup plan we are now relying on him.
With all of that all Jason has done this year is remind us that he is a very solid #2 - #3 pitcher.  And that we get extra value out of him because of SafeCo.  16th in the AL in ERA, so why do we do him the diservice of calling him a #4???  Yeah yeah yeah, he doesn't rank as high in FIP or xFip, but here in the real world you still get paid for your actual results.  Not the theoretical, turns out Vargas actually picthers half his games in SafeCo, and he actually has fantastic poise (call him the anti-Noesi ;) )
Anyway, like I said unless some one comes calling with one of their top prospects lets extend Varags for the under paid contract he is bound to end up with from someone and reap the benefits of a home grown player who actually BENEFITS from our home park ;)