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Sometimes, even for a dead team (which I'm not ready to declare the Mariners dead yet, although I agree the odds are exceedingly remote), it means a lot that the management put the best talent on the field at their own peril...if they hadn't put Pineda in the big leagues, I think that would have said a lot to the players about how management wants to treat them. Not just from the perspective of winning games...but from a fairness perspective. Pineda earned his rotation spot...holding him back to screw him out of a year of higher salary is rather brutal under these circumstances.