What will the Jays pitching lineup look to start next year?

[wildboy26]

What do you think the Jays pitching lineup will look like to start next year? It seems likely Lily, Speier, and Schoewenis will be gone. So I am guessing it will look like this:

Starters:

Halladay
Burnett
Chacin
Marcum
Rosario


Relievers:

Frasor
Downs
Walker
Tallet
League
Accardo
B.J Ryan


What do you think it will look like?

[charlio lemieux]

You know I'm not as concerned as much with who is there, but how they do on the field.

On paper we had an excellent staff this year. A few injuries and some disappointing seasons and we're back complaining about the pitching again.

I hope JP spends wisely next off season.

[wildboy26]

You know I'm not as concerned as much with who is there, but how they do on the field.

On paper we had an excellent staff this year. A few injuries and some disappointing seasons and we're back complaining about the pitching again.

I hope JP spends wisely next off season.

Yeah definitely. As you said on paper the teams overall pitching, both rotation and bullpen looked excellent before the year, and an injury here, an injury there, a pitcher not meeting perhaps slightly inflated expectations here, a pitcher underperforming there, and you have an erratic uneven pitching staff all over again. Hopefully there is good health and consistent performance that allows the pitching staff to carry out some semblance of the teams vision of them to start the year.

[charlio lemieux]

Yeah definitely. As you said on paper the teams overall pitching, both rotation and bullpen looked excellent before the year, and an injury here, an injury there, a pitcher not meeting perhaps slightly inflated expectations here, a pitcher underperforming there, and you have an erratic uneven pitching staff all over again. Hopefully there is good health and consistent performance that allows the pitching staff to carry out some semblance of the teams vision of them to start the year.I was really hoping for some of the young guys to have better seasons. Look at the way ex-Jay Dave Bush is doing in Milwaukee. He would have over 10 wins if his bullpen didn't let him down. The important stat though is he has eaten up almost 150 innings. Right now we need our starters to go more than 4 innings on average.

Dave Bush (http://milwaukee.brewers.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/team/player.jsp?player_id=433657)

The 1.1 innings on the 19th was an extremely rare, (only?) relief appearance.

I like Ryan for the closer. We will see who JP gets over the winter.

[KB in Kelowna]

It is August not February. Good thing you weren't a National League or even a New York Giants fan in 1951.;)

[charlio lemieux]

It is August not February. Good thing you weren't a National League or even a New York Giants fan in 1951.;)

Yes, you are right, there is still a lot of Baseball to be played. I still remember '87, when the Jays were on the other side.

It's just that expectations were higher, than what has been delivered. The pitching looked so good, and it's been so ...ehh. :shrug: