Here’s a stat you’ll see in tomorrow’s papers:
Boston is 23-29 when neither Pedro Martinez nor Curt Schilling starts. When one of them pitches, the Red Sox are 26-11.
To which I say: does anyone remember the D-Backs’ 2002 rotation beyond Randy Johnson and Schilling? No, I thought not. .500 from #3-#5 is quite acceptable. Arroyo and Wakefield seem capable of giving us that. As for Lowe… let’s just say I’m glad his next start is against a weak team like Seattle. I know everyone was complaining that the rotation should have been set up so that Pedro faces the MFYs, but I thought the bigger issue was that if we had started post-All Star Break with Pedro, we get Pedro vs the Ms, whom he owns, and Lowe vs the Os, whom Pedro hasn’t dominated this season (splits say: 11IP, 9ER against the Os this season, which interestingly is exactly the same as Lowe’s).