People were pre-worrying about the glut of starters in the spring too.

These things almost always tend to work themselves out. If they don’t, you build a trade around one of them to fill some other need. Or, you hang on to it all at AAA and let Moose leave at the end of the season.

That is missing one major component – that he COULD struggle in the bp.

You can’t, as Mike + Mad Dog are doing, use uncertainty as a reason for not moving him. Even Joba wants to be a starter. That is what M+M are doing.

Then they have Chamberlain building innings to get him into the rotation.

Also have Hughes returning after the all-star break.

In addition to the re-emergence of Alan Horne, Steven White, Dan McCutheon and Dan Giese at AAA SWB all pitching well.

Those 7 pitchers including Kennedy pitching out of the 5th spot in the rotation barring injuries the second half? What happens if Kennedy turns it around?

And no room in the pen for any of the above with the emergence of B.J. Cox, David Patterson, David Robertson and Mark Melancon to work out of the pen.

A nice problem, but I don’t know how this will be accommodated. I would guess the Yankees want to promote all these pitchers this season, either to showcase them or guage where they will fit in in 2009.

What? Dumb.

So…the team making a move that they’d planned to make (and stated publicly that they WOULD make) at a time that makes sense, given the number of innings he’s had a chance to throw so far and the target number they have in mind for him is somehow being “forced” on them? It’s just stupid. The whole “division at the top” idea is just a construct of the media. We’ve heard that Hank disagreed about the Santana move. But, he capitulated to the baseball people and his brother. Everything else that has happened has been internally consistent with what we know of Cash’s plan. So…what is there to really make us believe there’s this schism?

Thanks for the nice thoughts. We miss you here.

p.s. (Don’t forget Rebecca…)