Long baseball season ahead, Jeff, betting you will get your wish to see Whalen in Seattle. Hopefully for a long time too! Matt, great point above here and you know better than any that teams use and normally stick to labels????
Whalen did well to get a fresh label from last summer. Whalen's trouble on Sunday is partly baseball. If it were easy....we would all be doing it wouldn't we? And probably good to struggle a bit as now he gets a bit of a character check before the season starts. I hope he can get some good confidence in Tacoma!
Whalen over Bergman? If there was ever a nightmare in thin air here it was Bergman. When I was trying harder on the MLB Beat the Streak and it was a Bergman on the day mound, he was always my sacrifical lamb. I hope for the best for him but he isn't on 40 man so figure that Posve, Moore and Whalen are priority?
FYI, Jeremy is working through surgery after pitching all last summer on torn left knee. Hopefully he will get healthy before it is summer. Will let you know.