Gallardo Injury May Change Brewers' Plans

If they can get through the next 6 weeks with no more injuries, Doug might still move a SP. That's why every team needs 6-8 major league ready SP's, no one goes 162 without losing a guy or three.

He's having surgery on Tuesday and they are saying HE COULD be back in the rotation by mid-April. That is 2 months from today. Sounds fairly reasonable to me. Although I would tend to think they would be very careful with him and I wouldn't be shocked if his first start wasn't until early May.

Ben Sheets Jr?

matt murtons gonna be reading this one with a big smile! :)

hey i was looking at the website that tim linked the spring training one and i think the best NL starting pitching is between the mets or padres. padres: j.peavy, c. young, g. maddux, r. wolf, m. prior.... or mets: j. santana, p. martinez, j. maine, o. perez, o. hernandez. i for one is a mets fan so i will go with the rotation with the BEST PITCHER IN THE MLB! any body have a different opinion?

1. Brandon Webb
2. Randy Johnson
3. Dan Haren
4. Doug Davis
5. Micah Owings
hey i forgot the diamond backs they have a pretty wicked rotation to, but the mets are better

not that it will necessarily happen but i wouldn't be surprised if the reds' rotation surprised some people this year. for so long it's been their glaring weakness and it still needs work but it has potential to be solid.
harang
arroyo
bailey
affeldt
belisle/volquez/cueto

Everyone needs to get off the mlbtr cub's bias already. The guy who created the site is a cubs fan there are a lot of cubs fans.Thanks for the memo. I'm not a cubs fan but I think it's cool to hear about players that read the site cub or not and even if it gives tim and the other fans a cool feeling then whatever. Heaven forbid!

"like come on...like come on"

Dude, larsen101, proofread your posts. Half of it is incomprehensible and half of it sounds like it came from the mouth of a valley girl... (I realize people are testy about all the Cubs posts, but like come on.)

Ummm... yea wrong... Hamels and Meyers both are injury concerns (Hamels always is and Meyers cause of his switch back to the rotation), plus meyers was rocked in his last three starters appearances from last year, kendrick performed above his head, moyer is 45 and while decent is not as good as maine or perez, and durbin should not even be in a rotation... Now, you may not like my logic, but it is on the same level of yours, and the mets by far have a more stable and talented rotation than the phils do, dont kid yourself

AND THE METS WILL WIN THE WORLD SERIES!

You guys who are bashing the Mets rotation are nuts. They had the division wrapped up WITHOUT Johan. It took the most prolific collapse in regular season history to lose it. Perez may have consistency issues but he whipped the Yanks twice, and the Braves every time out. Maine struggled down the stretch but is postseason-proven. Now you add the best pitcher in baseball and a full season of Pedro (who won 3 games with a sub-3.00 ERA I believe) and the rotation "totally sucks?"

I don't know what line of reasoning you're using but I'm calling BS.

i don't agree with game555--the mets rotation doesn't suck, i just don't think it will be as good as others like the dbacks, braves, padres, etc. johan will be fabulous as always, especially in the NL, i think perez is solid despite the ups and downs of his career to this point. maine was pretty good last year too and i think he will be again in 08. however both pedro and el duque are well past their primes and both are far from sure things. they just don't compare with webb, johnson, haren, davis, owings

mets do have the more talented rotation, but definately not the more stable. if you think Pedro and El Duque are gonna give you 35 starts and 200 innings each, please pass what you're smoking this way. how is Hamels an injury risk? granted, Myers might be. Moyer might be 69 years old, but he's got that soft-toss type motion so his risk is low, and the rest of the rotation is a coin flip IMO. Perez is great/terrible, Kendrick is solid.
honestly, i give the edge to the Mets but it's not that wide of a gap.

oh, and whoever thinks the Yanks'll be on the outside looking in come playoff time, keep dreaming. there's always chatter about "bias, unreal Yankee fans" yet the same exists for the Yankee haters! like those of you that refuse to admit that Melky's a good player. is it too hard to imagine that a 22y/o LgAv switch-hitting CF that plays decent def with a good arm might actually get better?

the d-backs will simply get places cuz of there young talent and there well balanced rotation. the cubs manage to get to the play offs simply cuz the rest of the central sucks. and the mets are just a better team than the braves better pitching. but their offense does have more power than the mets do.and the padres will get to the play offs cuz of there pitching its good u cant really argue its good. plus they got a pitchers ball park. there offense suks out loud

metsfan. ditto on the AL. can't agree with you more. i'm sure part of this is just the fact that you're a mets fan and i'm a braves fan, but i'm not sold on the mets rotation. their offense is terrific, especially if delgado shows up this year, but i like the braves lineup almost as well and their pitching more. hudson, smoltz, and glavine seem like a more likely trio to carry a team into october than santana, perez, and maine. cubs win central by default, no arguments there. don't think pads will get in. whoever does not win east (it will be close) will instead. pads pitching is good but their offense was incompetent last year. jake peavy, chris young, and adrian gonzalez won't carry them imo.

that would be great for them but it would cost a fortune. lackey, krod, and dunn would be a huge haul. i would guess the angels would be successful in keeping one of the two (lackey or krod) though. i could see adam dunn in a mets uniform. i don't really like him but you're right i bet omar does.

I would say that the odd man out is still Claudio Vargas. (Capuano is likely to stay for now, and Villanueva is well-suited for the pen.) So does Vargas have any trade value? The wins really look like a fluke...

jacklaf, i was just using Melky as an example. during the Santana talks everyone was talking about him like a 33y/o 4th OF. Yankee-haters bias-ly think that they don't have enough pitching. i'm not saying they have a top flight rotation this year, but they'll be better than most people think.

Girardi should manage the pitchers fine. some people like to point out the Marlins soph slump last year due to “over-use”. maybe, but the last 2 yrs they were a young STAFF that also had an entirely new coaching staff last year, surrounded by a young TEAM with their only “veterans” M-Cab&Willis. Yanks have solid vets around our Big Three. those Marlins were Willis and a Medium Eleven. he’ll juggle them perfectly. he should use Joba as the longman for the first half with Moose 5. second half switch ‘em. maybe by season’s end Joba’s #1? plus by default, he automatically handles the bullpen better than Torre IMO.