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Originally Posted by DeezNutz
Unfortunately, I don't believe this is true anymore. We have Odo on the horizon, and that's about it.
We're going to have to be active and successful in FA, or we'll have to make some astute trades with our prospects, which we should have been doing for several years now, but alas...
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Losing Paulino and Duffy to TJ surgery really gutted this position.
With those two and Odo in place, that's three pretty bright spots (with upside and decent floors).
Right now, the in-house 2013 rotation candidates:
Odorizzi
Chen (will be in it)
Hochevar (will be in it, acceptable No. 5)
big gap
(these are guys who are ok as filler/fifth starters but not going to give you much more - and potentially much less)
Mazzero
Teaford
Adcock
Will Smith
Ryan Verdugo
Question Marks
John Lamb - will he recover his form quickly? If he has a Strasbourg-like recovery, he could be starting in MLB by September 2012. Unlikely. More likely eta: Midseason 2013.
Duffy - do they get him back for late 2013 at all?
Paulino - see Duffy.
Mike Montgomery. Results suck, and recent reports have his stuff slipping. Uh-oh.
Yordano Ventura - LOOOOONG ways away. Still at High-A Wilmington.
Kyle Zimmer. See Ventura. Could move quickly - will know more by end of this year, based on his performance.
Aaron Crow - do they finally move him to the rotation? And is he successful?
Sadly, the in-house options have been devastated. Deez is right. They will have to make some moves or have TREMENDOUS luck to answer the SP problem in-house.
I think the past offseason/this offseason was/is the time to move prospects. Moving any before 2011 would have been premature, IMO.