The rotation in the first five games after the All-Star Game will be Mike Mussina, Andy Pettitte, Roger Clemens, Ted Lilly and Randy Keisler.
It had better not be the other Burnett, the one who was not good enough to make the three-man postseason rotation in the first place.
I never thought he would be in the rotation in the first place, but after watching him the other night, I thought this kid would be a very good player".
After a one-year retirement, Pettitte is expected to be ushered back into the rotation in the second week of May, perhaps at the expense of Hughes or of Freddy Garcia, who will start Saturday against the Detroit Tigers and has an earned run average of 9.75 after three starts.
This may be explained by the fact that EM trainees were exposed to a variety of anaesthetic agents during the 6-month anaesthetic/intensive care rotation in the first year of training.
If his recovery is similar to that in his first setback with the sore shoulder, he could rejoin the rotation in the first round of the playoffs. .
Rivers used what felt like a playoff rotation in the first half, with only eight players logging minutes and Crawford playing backup point guard instead of Jordan Farmar.
Scioscia would not say whether he will use a three- or four-man rotation in the first round, but he did say the Angels probably will carry 12 pitchers, leaving them with a four-man bench.
The Angels are leaning heavily toward using a three-man rotation in the first round, so Shoemaker would likely start Game 3. "We'll eventually settle on a rotation that can get us to our goal, but how it lines up, we don't really know," Scioscia said.
The Angels appear to be leaning heavily toward using a three-man rotation in the first round, so Shoemaker would likely start Game 3. "We'll eventually settle on a rotation that can get us to our goal, but how it lines up, we don't really know," Scioscia said.
