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Originally Posted by jayswin
Yeah, unfortunately if this ends up being the staring rotation we'll be set up to maybe challenge for a wildcard spot.
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... They have the best offense in all of baseball.
Yeah I get that the pitching isn't great. But again Best. Bats. In. Baseball.
Really, amoungst position players there are just two spots where they don't get elite offense or elite fielding (1st base and LF... and even those aren't below average) and in some positions they have both. When you get right down to it the pitching should be about as good as we got last year in aggregate and the Jays won the division last year. it basically breaks down like such...
Price/Sanchez v. Stroman
Buerhle v. Happ
Dickey v. Dickey
Estrada v. Estrada
Hutchison v. Chavez
... that's last years rotation vs. this years likely rotation. Will Stroman be as good as Price? Probably not, Will Stroman be better then Sanchez? Almost certainly. In every other comparison I would say that we can probably expect a lateral performance on the whole.