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Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins

Lynn has a tremendous fastball. Every other offering is a below average pitch. And Shelby's H/R splits are troubling, but he is still a 22 year old.

You make a good point regarding innings, but you certainly can't count on Garcia giving you them. I'm fine with them bringing along Martinez via the Wainwright route, but he's just too damned valuable to be a setup man. His stuff is exquisitely rare.

The point I was trying to make about innings is that we cannot afford to part with Miller unless the team would sign a vet who can eat up innings. Lynn, for all his faults, was over 200 innings this year. They may hold Miller under 200 innings again. I'm going to assume that Garcia can't pitch or breaks down again. You have a rotation of Wainwright, Lynn, Miller, Kelly and Wacha. Kelly and Wacha will probably be limited in innings. Even though Kelly is older, he is used to about 100 innings a year and rarely gets into the 7th. If you take out Lynn and replace with Martinez, its another case of a pitcher limited in innings that need to be made up by a spot starter.