My goodness, I assumed most would sense my sarcasm.

Fwiw, I got the sarcasm loud and clear.

Extend the guy already!
You must be smoking some pretty powerful stuff. Have you been paying attention for the past three years?

You laugh, but it’s not like the M’s have a logjam of guys in Tacoma waiting to bust into the rotation. Morrow to the pen and the Aumont fiasco-in-the-making means maybe the M’s could use Washburn for another year or two. Not at $9 or $10M a year, but if he’d sign for half that…

Not sure he would, but the FA market has been correcting against guys like Washburn. He’s not going to get another deal like his last one.

Sorry. I’d never read anything by you before.

Extend the guy already!

You must be smoking some pretty powerful stuff. Have you been paying attention for the past three years?

As I said in the game thread, Jarrod did a good job last night of not losing his cool when Endy misplayed the ball off the wall in the first inning and adjusted himself to the ump’s rather interesting strike zone. Can he continue? Therein lies the real mystery. If he can pitch consistently well for a month, that’s a lot of valuable innings in the bank, even if he falters later. Last night’s win doesn’t go away regardless of what he does the rest of the year, just as it doesn’t mean he “turned the corner.”

2. If the Ms keep winning, and Washburn keeps pitching well, of course you don’t trade him. The objective is to make the playoffs. You only “build for the future” if the present sucks.

I’m not sure why this turned into a trade speculation discussion, anyway.

Because most of them do?