Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
March 18, 2007
Sudden Depth?

The battle for the number five spot in the Rangers' rotation is producing good results:

Loe's outing came less than 24 hours after Wright was solid in his 3 1/3 innings of work. Chen must have a good outing today against Colorado to keep up.

That's what competition can do for a staff. And Washington said he's never seen a competition for the No. 5 spot this stiff in his years as a coach.

"This is what you want to see," Washington said. "They are pitching well to move up to four or three [in the rotation]. So I'm very satisfied. I'm happy for every one of those guys."

Given that earlier in the off season depth chart writers had a tough time putting down four names for the Texas rotation, this is good news for the squad from Arlington. Starting pitching may turn out not to be a weakness here after all.


Posted by David Pinto at 09:08 AM | Pitchers | TrackBack (0)
Comments

The Jays have a similar deluge of depth. Earlier in the winter, they had competition for the 4th and 5th spots with kids like Casey Janssen and Shawn Marcum, and the person who had one of the worst seasons in history in Josh Towers. Now they've got Tomo Ohka, John Thomson and Victor Zambrano competing well and fully healthy. Josh Towers has also appeared to regain his 2005 form.

http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/Sports/OtherSports/2007/03/16/3761908-sun.html

Posted by: Dan at March 18, 2007 08:00 PM
Post a comment









Remember personal info?