The rotation quandry
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
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.
yeah,
Here's an idea
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.
Unless they can pull off a trade
by chrisisasavage on Aug 19, 2007 6:32 PM PDT up reply actions

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