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Originally Posted by jacksonianmarch
1. Schilling, 2. Beckett, 3. Wakefield, 4. Clement, 5. Lester. Theo won't be able to dump that contract of Clement and I don't see him as a type of guy who will sit a 10 mil player on the bench going into the season. Now there have been rumblings that the sox obsession with Oswalt will carry over into the offseason, where the astros may be more willing to accept a set of prospects than they were in a pennant chase this yr. Think about it, the Astros will lose both Clemens and Pettitte, and with them will go the hope of any type of playoff berth. So rebuilding would be nice and they would likely look at a guy like Lester and a bunch of minor league, or current major league players to sure up their bullpen. That wouldmake the rotation: 1. Schilling, 2. Oswalt, 3. Beckett, 4. Wakefield, 5. Clement. Now that is a nice rotation. Just imagine if Theo actually tries to convert Cement head into a reliever and moves Paps into the rotation. 1. Schilling, 2. Oswalt, 3. Papelbon, 4. Beckett, 5. Wakefield. That is LETHAL. If they do that though, Timlin, Seanez, Delcarmen, Hansen and Papelbon will be gone from the pen and they will have to rebuild from the outside. Here are the available options.
Cordero, Dotel, Wickman, Hawkins, Rob. Hernandez, Mesa, and Williamson from the right side and Guardado, King, Kline, Reyes, Romero, Schoenweis, and Villone from the left side. You could build a serviceable pen to go around a sick rotation if that were the case. Imagine the possibilities, Beckett being a #4 and Wake your 5. The sox would raise a banner if they could do that. Or could they? Yankee predictions will come later, I gotta go.
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