The rotation quandry

by AnotherAaron on Aug 18, 2007 4:42 PM PDT

Forgive me a little late-season rosterbation.

The problems: 4 major-league quality starting pitchers for 5 spots. 92 major-league quality relievers for 7 spots. OK, maybe not quite 92, but close.

The solution: 4 man rotation. Dump Ho, bring back Lowe. Get Feierabend, Mickolio (when he's healthy, dumping Rivera from the 40-man) and Huber (when he's healthy) to travel with the team for the next couple of weeks, swapping parts out as they tire until they can be added to the active roster for the rest of the regular season. If things get desperate, there is enough dead wood on the 40-man roster to add the best of Rohrbaugh, Campillo or even Woods. Baek will be back in a few weeks as well.

Stock that bullpen full and limit the starters to 5 innings/80 pitches. Hell, with the Ho gone, it's not even that much more work on the pen than it's getting now. Get creative. Just slap the Ho to the curb.

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Jose Contreras

Josh Towers, Joe Kennedy

Hell, I would have advocated for Ramon Ortiz before he was traded.

I'd rather not bring up Feierabend. Kid has already been roasted at the major league level and I'd rather he worked it out in the minors.

Woods blows. Campillo or Rohrbaugh might be serviceable, but not great.

Of course, all 7 options listed are better than Horam. Yet I'd be willing to bet he's out there next time.

by Fuckmikereilly on Aug 18, 2007 4:58 PM PDT reply actions

yeah,

i don't want to see f(buy a vowel)bend again this year it it can be avoided.

Hey, Lopez! I know you're in there Lopez! LOPEZ!

by Patrick517 on Aug 18, 2007 10:05 PM PDT up reply actions

Here's an idea

Call up an extra reliever, but then use two of your more durable relievers in the #5 spot as a tandem. Take, say, RRS and Potatoes. In one turn of the rotation, have RRS start and go 60-70 pitches or 4-5 innings, whichever comes first. After that, go get Potatoes and have him go 50-60 pitches or 4 innings, then use your relievers as you normally would. The next time through the rotation, start Potatoes and have him go 60-70 pitches, and then bring in RRS to go 50-60, then the relievers.

So you take two relievers you're not really using anyway, you use them, you lose those relievers but then gain an extra reliever by punting HoRam and replacing him, and really, everything's essentially fine and you improve that #5 rotation spot without having to go and deal for A Proven Starting Pitcher or calling up some AAAer who can't consistently get MLB bats out.

by Gomez on Aug 19, 2007 5:01 PM PDT reply actions