Your Thoughts Exactly

Oh, Seattle-PI, you pinnacle of baseball coverage, you! Dave Andreisen reports,

The Mariners do want to add a starter, but the pool of starting pitchers is now wafer-thin. Beyond Pavano and Pedro Martinez (no chance), there's not a pitcher left who would crack the top of the rotation.

Lets go to the videotape:

_____ IP____ _H____BB___K____HR____K/9__whip___ERA
FA___181____ 155__ 77__190___23___9.45__1.28___3.68

M1___140.2___144__43__111___21___ 7.1__ 1.33____4.67
M2___202____ 217__63__125___44___5.57__1.39____5.21
M3___127.2___139__47__99___21___6.98__1.46___ 5.01
M4___88______74___33__60___ 3___ 6.14__1.22___ 3.27

What does this all mean? First, it means I'm not very skilled with the blogger. Second, it means, if you haven't already guessed, Matt Clement would not only crack the top of our rotation, he would be the top of our rotation - a rotation led last year by Ron Villone's 8 wins. I know, that's old news. Yet it never loses its shock value. (Above, 1 is Pineiro, 2 is Moyer, 3 is Meche, and 4 is Madritsch). Also, while finding these numbers, I was shocked yet again to see that Madritsch tossed over 112 pitches per outing last year, leading the team. How was Melvin allowed to do that? How wasn't he fired before the end of the season for this alone? Criminal.