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- Updated: August 2, 2016
TACOMA, Wash. — The Mariners didn’t add any starting pitching at the non-waiver Trade Deadline on Monday. Maybe it’s because one of the arms they’d like to count on the most in those important late-season games was a mere half-hour south, working his way back to the big club.
Taijuan Walker, the Mariners’ prized 6-foot-4, 235-pound right-hander, has been on the 15-day disabled list for more than three weeks with tendinitis in the arch of his right foot. He pitched for Triple-A Tacoma at Cheney Stadium in what Seattle hopes is his final Minor League rehab appearance before rejoining the Major League rotation on Saturday at home against the Angels.
Walker, pitching for the Rainiers against the Colorado Rockies’ Triple-A affiliate, the Albuquerque Isotopes, continued to progress, going 4 1/3 innings and giving up two runs on three hits …
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