Stephen Kolek already had been plucked out of the Mariners system in the Rule 5 draft when he got married last January. The Padres’ trip to South Korea for the Seoul Series for his MLB debut served as a pseudo-honeymoon until this offseason,

Stephen Kolek, a right-hander with a five-pitch mix, is making the transition from the bullpen to the rotation this spring. Sure helps that there’s another righty -- with precisely the same five-pitch mix -- who made precisely the same transition last spring.