Schmuck: Orioles need 4 Starters and a a few Spot starts Until June

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[Bahama O's Fan]

I think if everyone is healthy and pitching well, we trade one for either an OF bat, along with a reliever and maybe an OF/DH to go along with it or for some guys we can option to the minors.

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I wonder if Chen will start every six days with three others every fifth and a spot starter (Gonzalez) filling in until the smoke settles?

[Frobby]

I don't really understand Schmuck's logic. The Orioles have six off days in the first 61 days of the season, April 6 through June 5. That's not an unusually high number of off days. Over the whole season, the Orioles play 162 games in 182 days. Buck isn't going to be skipping the fifth starter every time they have a day off early in the season.

[Beef Supreme]

I don't really understand Schmuck's logic. The Orioles have six off days in the first 61 days of the season, April 6 through June 5. That's not an unusually high number of off days. Over the whole season, the Orioles play 162 games in 182 days. Buck isn't going to be skipping the fifth starter every time they have a day off early in the season.

Schmuck must be predicting no rain this Spring.

[Spy Fox]

Why would we even want to skip the 5th starter when our top 5 starters all have pretty similar talent levels and a couple of them are proven to be better pitchers when they have more rest over the course of the season?

With our particular roster, a 6-man rotation would be better than a 4-man rotation.

[MurphDogg]

Yeah, this isn't going to happen. Skipping the fifth starter only makes sense if a couple of your starters are markedly better than the others and you want to maximize their starts or your fifth starter is markedly inferior to your fourth starter. Neither is the case.

[ArtVanDelay]

Why would we even want to skip the 5th starter when our top 5 starters all have pretty similar talent levels and a couple of them are proven to be better pitchers when they have more rest over the course of the season?

With our particular roster, a 6-man rotation would be better than a 4-man rotation.

Yeah, this isn't going to happen. Skipping the fifth starter only makes sense if a couple of your starters are markedly better than the others and you want to maximize their starts or your fifth starter is markedly inferior to your fourth starter. Neither is the case.

Exactly. We have too many starters, not too few.

[Say O!]

Seems like Petey is advocating 40 starts per year for some of these guys. Sure feels like a recipe for burnout by Aug 1st.

[Bahama O's Fan]

We want to give Chen as much rest as possible and Jiminez is never good in April. If we are going to skip someone early, let it be him. For all the good of our starting staff, they don't go deep. We may need one of them for long relief occasionally.

[CA-ORIOLE]

What a schmuck.