The Red Sox website indicates that Bobby V. will have to cut his current pitching staff of 25 in half & do it soon. Cuts should be made sometime this week to establish a rotation & bullpen with assigned responsibilities.
What do we know? Well, Beckett, Lester, Buchholz & probably Bard are in the starting rotation. Andrew Bailey is your closer to start the year. Beyond those 5 guys, everything else is up in the air.
There are no options left for 5 pitchers - Albers, Bowden, Doubront, Miller & Morales. If they don't make the big club, they get released. I think all 5 of those guys stay with the club in some form or fashion.
Aceves & Melancon should be added to that mix, even though neither has pitched well lately. Doubront had a poor outing too.
Depending who gets tapped as the 5th starter, I think the competition is really between Cook & Padilla to make the big club. I say Padilla has an edge since he is willing to work out of the bullpen, as well as start.
Should be an interesting week.
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