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Originally Posted by guccilvr
If Lowell's hip is fine, then I'm quite pleased with the infield that will be in place on opening day. I'm more worried about the pitching than I am about Lowell tbh.
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Well one thing we did do is completely overload ourselves with pitching. With a rotation like Beckett, Matsuzaka, Lester, Wakefield adding a fifth starter/spot starter like Smoltz and Penny is a huge upgrade over what we have had in the past, like say a Tavarez. Plus that would allow Papelbon, Okajima, Delcarmen, Masterson, and an addition of Saito and Ramirez in the bullpen makes that a pretty scary pitching staff. Scary for other teams. They just need to be healthy and they'll produce. I feel confident that we have more pitching than we need, which is not true anyways because "you never can have enough pitching!" Don't forget that we also have Bucholz in the minors probably itching to get back in the saddle again!