Dave Softy Mahler

They can't do anything with Hancock besides leave him in the rotation.

So the question is, when Bryce Miller is healthy, which he's a couple weeks away from being ready to pitch...

What do you do, right?

And Emerson Hancock could have made it really easy by pitching terribly and getting sent back down to AAA Tacoma, but he's not pitching terribly.

So I think Luis Castillo, you know, a phantom IL stint at some point, make up an injury, whatever.

He's got a groin.

He's got an oblique.

He's got something in his elbow, blah, blah, blah, some discomfort in his hip, yackety-yack.

They'll make something up for Luis Castillo and probably get him out of here for a couple weeks because he needs to be shut down.

He is not himself at all.

Well, I think likely what's going to happen if they have another injury in their rotation, I think Kate Anderson is going to be next up.

I mean, if Luis Castillo is honestly dealing with something and has to be shut down for a while or is on the IL, there's a chance that Kate Anderson is next up in this rotation.

And if you look at Jerry DiPoto,

As the GM and president of baseball ops with this team, Logan Gilbert, George Kirby, Brian Wu, he's had a bunch of guys that have made the jump straight from AA to the major leagues.

So Kate Anderson doesn't necessarily need to stop in Tacoma.

He doesn't need to make a stop in AAA.

He can make the jump right from AA to the major leagues.

I mean, he's an older guy.

He pitched in college at LSU.

We're not talking about a 19-year-old kid who's straight out of high school.