Develop another pitch.

Thank you.

is doing a huge favor for a team that talked about giving him a long-term deal. Let’s hope NH is smart enough to pick up on it.

at least no one can say that Laroche is not consistent. I’m worried about our young staff. Gorzo looks like his arm is going to fall off. None of our lefties are hitting 90 mph consistently and Duke once again cannot strike anyone out. With our defense he is in line for 15 losses. Needless to say I’m concerned.

...this is the best possible scenario we could have hoped for.

We all knew this was not a championship team, not a playoff team, not even likely a .500 team, so we know even more clearly now (as if we didn’t already) that Huntington has to mostly blow things up.

Very soon (if not already), any pretense of making a ‘stand’ for a winning 2008 will have to be abandoned.

That being said, the two players we need to trade (Nady and Bay), are playing very well, despite the fact that the team is not.

I think most of us would agree that one of the more important things (important to the longer term success) about the first month or two of the season, would be the play of Nady and Bay. That they are both playing as they are is a huge silver lining, I think.

On another note, does it make any sense, assuming LaRoche gets back in form, to move Pearce back to 1st, trade LaRoche and have someone else slated for right (Doumit? but that leaves Poulino at catcher)?

... Pitch?

that only McClouth, Doumit, and, to a lesser extent Nady (Pearce), had to compete for starting jobs this spring?

Would a sixth competitor (Chacon?) have brought a better effort from the starting rotation? The five starters were handed their jobs in October/November.

Keep McLouth (lf), Doumit©, Cutch(cf), Walker(3b), Pearce(1b), Snell (Ace), Capps (closer) and trade the rest for developing prospects. Also draft the best prospects money can buy the 1st 10 rounds and maybe overpaid some HS draftees in the later rounds. Get that international pipeline going. Here’s hoping for a 5-2 homestand to make it 12-13 heading to NYC. (6-1 is asking way too much)