This deal is a vote of confidence from Zduriencik regarding his other pitching prospects. Noesi is filler (good filler with upside that will get traded as soon as no longer necessary...but still filler)...I think this means Zduriencik is confident that he's got MLB material amongst his other prospects - Paxton, Hultzen, the forgotten Erasmo Ramirez, and Walker. The Mariners still have silly-good depth for the middle of their rotation AND for the back of it.
They've got Felix...this group for 2-3 (Iwamura, Paxton, Vargas, Hultzen, Walker), and this group for the bottom (Beaven, Furbush, Noesi, Ramirez)
Most teams would slaughter a thousand virgins for that kind of rotation depth up and down the order...MLB-READY depth at that (or darned close).
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