Matt Clement, eh? Eh. Decent contract, preferable to Pavano’s, and preferable in my mind to trading the farm system to get Hudson or Sheets. A solid #2/#3 pitcher, with a sick 9.45 K rate last season, but somehow not someone I get all excited about. Every Clement game I’ve seen he’s lulled me to sleep.
So this is the rotation: Schilling-Wells-Clement-Wakefield-Arroyo. As usual, we’ll see how it goes- hopefully it goes well, but this gives the financial flexibility to make trade deadline deals. So the Clement for Lowe swap that was talked about since the trade deadline has gone through, in a way.