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Originally Posted by sedated
If you are listing Montgomery, you might as well throw Dwyer on that list. But given what’s happened the last 2 seasons, there is no reason to expect either to contribute anything; they are relics from the “greatest farm system ever” that never panned out. It happens, move on.
Crow will never be a starter, or at least a good one.
Duffy and Paulino JUST had tommy johns. They won’t even start rehab until halfway through 2013, so don’t expect to see them in the show (or at 100%) until 2014.
2013 is looking more like:
Hochever
Odorizzi
Chen
Lamb (and who knows what he will give us, he isn’t done with rehab)
Mendoza/Sanchez/Mazzaro/???
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You've gotta flush Dirty Sanchez. Guy is Kyle Davies all over again.
I think you're probably looking at:
Jeckyll-Hyde Hoch
Odor-Eater
C'Mon Chen!
Mendoza Line
Bullshit AAAA Mazzaro/Teaford/Smith/etc etc etc etc.
UNLESS: Daddy Wal Mart bucks allows us to buy an actual starter as a Free-Agent, or bundle Frenchey plus some other baggage (maybe Humberto or Maier or some minor leaguers) for somebody who can start. Probably a number three or four guy from somewhere outside the AL Central.
I wouldn't count on ANYTHING from any of our Tommy John candidates next year. I don't know if Soria will ever pitch effectively again, since this is his second TJ. I think Duffy will be back because he's young. Paulino's motion scares me, he might come back from TJ then tear up his shoulder. I don't think he can make it through a season healthy, period.
Gotta do something though, or we'll be right back to 2003 when we had all this offensive firepower (Damon-Dye-Beltran) and no pitching behind it.