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If this game is the start of a Gallardo re-birth, the other shuffle may be the secondary story of the day. Pitching into the 7th with a shutout against a team that had won 3 straight? That wil do, pig!

The rotation has not been strong. But more Gallardo starts like this, and something resembling the WBC Smyly due back about 1 June, and things might not be so bad. Iwakuma may be better off in the pen at this point, but choosing between DeJong, Povse, and Moore isn't a bad backup plan. Things will roll, but DiPoto has decisively indicated he will get to work to keep it on track.

My guess is that Martin clears waivers and gets to go to Tacoma to work his swing out (or even extended spring training) IFF this is performance-based only and not the result of some head-butting with the coaching staff. The incentives are all aligned to keeping him if he has the right attitude - other teams don't want the full salary, and the salary isn't so much the Ms HAVE to dump some of it in a trade. 

Valencia, I would think, has another 2-3 starts against LH pitchers before he will face oblivion. Haniger and Motter have been carrying this team, but Cano and Cruz are rapidly picking it up. With Segura back, Motter could be part of a 1B rotation as well as backing up Dyson/Heredia. That basically leaves Seager to pick it up, as always, in May, and Zunino to stop flailing at low-and-away, and things look pretty good. Not the start we hoped, but not out of it yet.

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