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Rotation the rest of the way


For the rest of the season, it seems like a few juggles are in order. We know the following:

at Pit: Lowe

StL: Jurrjens, Minor, Hanson, Hudson

After that it could get interesting. I think there are a few things to consider.

1) Hudson has to pitch against Philly. His recent "struggles" aside, you simply have to have your ace on the hill in those 2 series. In the current rotation, he'll miss both series.

2) Getting JJ an extra home start is doable, and should be done.

3) I think most of us would advocate Lowe getting skipped rather than Minor when possible, but for now I'm dismissing that as pie-in-the-sky.

Wash next week will be Lowe, Jurrjens, Minor unless Derek gets hurt tonight. His health doesn't affect Games 2-3 of this series though. Then we finally get an off day.

Without any juggling, and with the normal skipping of Minor that has become the pattern, we'd finish like this:

at Mets: Hanson, Hudson, Lowe

at Philly: Jurrjens, Minor, Hanson

Off day

at Wash: Hudson, Lowe, Jurrjens

Fla: Hanson, Minor, Hudson

Off day

Philly: Lowe, Jurrjens, Hanson

Better would be:

at Mets: Hudson, Hanson, Lowe

at Philly: Jurrjens, Minor, Hudson

Off day

at Wash: Hanson, Lowe, Minor

Fla: Hudson, Jurrjens, Hanson

Off day

Philly: Lowe (or Minor), Hudson, Jurrjens

Starting the series at Citi with Timmy rather than Tommy fixes most of the problems, and replacing JJ with Minor for the last game in Washington doesn't change the total number of starts anyone gets, so it seems prudent to get JJ one more at home.

They could even swap Lowe and Hanson in the series at Washington if you wanted to get Tommy up for a Phillies game.

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