Seth

Mon, 29 Jan 2007 08:28:01 -0800

Hernandez is "nobody?" I don't think so. And remember that going into 2001, people thought Moyer was finished after his horrible August and then the broken leg he suffered (thanks, Chris Widger) in an intrasquad game. I remember that some web site--could it have been Baseball Prospectus?--didn't even list him among their candidates for the M's starting rotation. I'm not saying that the 2007 rotation will be as good as 2001, I'm just saying that going in to 2001, the rotation looked just as shaky.

Pauls Toutonghi

Sun, 28 Jan 2007 13:27:25 -0800

Look -- as you know, I'm a big fan of your writing on this site. But I really have to take you to task for repeatedly referencing the 2001 rotation as a reason to have hope for 2007. Garcia is a great pitcher. An All-Star and a perennial 18-game winner. Moyer is a 300-win career guy. Halama and Sele were solid pitchers. Halama less so, admittedly. And yes -- nothing will ever explain how Paul Abbott went 17-4 that year. God only knows. But that's two great pitchers. We have nobody. Nobody. We are going to win 65 games. We had a decent team last year. If we'd done ANYTHING to improve the pitching staff -- we might have made some sort of run. This will be the most dismal M's year since Bill Plummer.

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Seth

Pauls Toutonghi