The not-so magnificent seven

June 8th, 2004 and April 15th, 2005. What do these two dates have in common? Well, let's look at the starters' lines for each game:

         IP  H  R ER BB SO HR NP
6/8/04  0.2  6  6  6  1  0  3 37
4/15/05 3.1  5  8  8  5  1  2 71

If you're reading this, you probably know who the starter was for last night's game (it was Gavin Floyd). The other game I've highlighted was the starting debut of Ryan Madson who, despite his stellar job coming out of the pen over the past year, has not been given another shot at starting. Will Gavin Floyd suffer the same fate? Vicente Padilla is slated to come off the DL this week and Charlie Manuel has said that he will be taking Floyd's spot in the rotation, with Floyd to be sent to the pen.

So what's a team to do with seven potential starters? To tell you the truth, I don't know. I do think that Madson and Floyd should be given a shot at starting somewhere. Should one of them be traded? Should we keep them and move one of the vets to the bullpen? Do we trade one of the vets? Do we send them down to AAA so that they can get experience starting games? Or is Manuel doing the right thing by putting both of them in the pen?

If you've got an opinion, please share...

Posted at: 03.04.2008
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