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But if he has another 2 inning, 7 ER performance they might. Or put him on the 15-day DL, then let him "rehab" in the minors for a bit.
Noesi has insanely good walk rates up until AAA. In AAA that went away (again, small sample) and he got hit a lot. That's continued in the bigs, both in the pen and now the rotation - he's getting hit a lot and walking too many.
AAA & the bigs: ~ 110 IP, doubled walk rate to 3.5, lost 1.5 Ks per, hits climbed over 10 per, WHIP over 1.50.
He's doing something wrong. If he doesn't find it in a couple weeks he's gonna have to find it in AAA. I guess I don't understand why the idea that a guy who never walked anybody and suddenly is walking twice as many while being less effective in all other areas over his last 2 seasons of work is being asked to do something different "in Seattle." Maybe he is. If this is how he's taking to doing that "something different" then again, he needs to work on it somewhere else.
If he blows up again before the end of April I expect a demotion. Maybe he'lll get DLed first to give a plausible explanation and not make every struggling pitcher feel like he has 12 innings to get it right or he's gone, as you suggest will happen.
But if you need to set standards for your organization, you also need to treat individual problems individually, and not with a broad brush. Vargas wasn't sent down because he was working on something, and came out the other side fine. Felix wasn't sent down because he had 4 plus pitches and needed to be taught how to pitch instead of throw, and nobody in AAA could hit his stuff and force him to learn. Fister wasn't sent down because he limited damage even when he struggled, so he could be given time to work.
Noesi is in none of those situations. Noesi doesn't - and shouldn't - trust his offspeed stuff to carry him. He was unable to work on it with the Yankees out of the pen, and has shown struggles with the experienced hitters in AAA as well. Saving the confidence of other nameless future pitchers and shoving Noesi out to feed the wolves every 5th day can mess up a kid's head too - sacrificing Noesi on the altar of patience isn't a perfect plan either. Punishing him - and the team - because the Mariners made a judgment error in Spring Training isn't smart just because it's conventional. If the Mariners can get him worked out between starts, fine.
Hector's ERA is almost 10 AFTER having thrown one shut-out game. It won't happen tomorrow, but a re-assignment can happen quickly. No more of those outings, Hector. Spot the fastball, throw the changeup, and stick around.
~G