{"id":125,"date":"2010-08-18T17:42:42","date_gmt":"2010-08-18T21:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=125"},"modified":"2012-11-15T10:18:41","modified_gmt":"2012-11-15T15:18:41","slug":"who-has-the-best-playoff-rotation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=125","title":{"rendered":"Who has the best Playoff Rotation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a short series (if you went to a 3-man rotation in the playoffs, as lots of teams do), who scares you the most?<\/p>\n<p>Candidates:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Philadelphia: <strong>Halladay<\/strong>, <strong>Hamels <\/strong>and <strong>Oswalt<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Boston: <strong>Lester<\/strong>, <strong>Beckett<\/strong>, <strong>Buchholz<\/strong>.\u00a0 tough.\u00a0 If they were all performing that is.\u00a0 Beckett seems off this year.<\/li>\n<li>NY Yankees: <strong>Sabathia<\/strong>, <strong>Burnett <\/strong>and <strong>Hughes<\/strong>; this was supposed to be <strong>Vazquez <\/strong>but once again the best rotation that money can buy, didn&#8217;t.<\/li>\n<li>St Louis: <strong>Carpenter<\/strong>, <strong>Wainwright <\/strong>and <strong>Garcia<\/strong>.\u00a0 Wow.<\/li>\n<li>San Francisco: <strong>Lincecum<\/strong>, <strong>Cain <\/strong>and <strong>Zito<\/strong>\/<strong>Sanchez<\/strong>\/<strong>Bumgarner<\/strong>; again, that&#8217;s tough.<\/li>\n<li>Tampa Bay: <strong>Price<\/strong>, <strong>Garza<\/strong>, <strong>Shields <\/strong>(with <strong>Sonnanstine<\/strong>\/<strong>Hellickson <\/strong>thrown in there).\u00a0 Scary tough, which is why they&#8217;re beating out the Red Sox right now.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For my money, it has to be Philly slightly followed by St. Louis.\u00a0 How is that team gonna get beat this off season?\u00a0 Of course, they have to MAKE the playoffs for it to matter.\u00a0 Ironic that the 3 best rotations in the AL are all in the east.\u00a0 Chicago&#8217;s is decent but more veteran laden.\u00a0 Texas&#8217; starts with <strong>Lee <\/strong>and ends with a guy who was playing in Japan this time last year (<strong>Colby Lewis<\/strong>).\u00a0 I don&#8217;t think Minnesota&#8217;s guys are scaring anyone.\u00a0 How scary is it that Toronto has two guys with one-hitters this year (<strong>Marcum<\/strong>, <strong>Morrow<\/strong>) but is buried in FOURTH place in the AL east.\u00a0 That&#8217;s a tough division.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a short series (if you went to a 3-man rotation in the playoffs, as lots of teams do), who scares you the most? Candidates: Philadelphia: Halladay, Hamels and Oswalt Boston: Lester, Beckett, Buchholz.\u00a0 tough.\u00a0 If they were all performing that is.\u00a0 Beckett seems off this year. NY Yankees: Sabathia, Burnett and Hughes; this was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[346,700,556,209,1140,47,224,319,246,242,247,223,324,49,341,239,221,320,50,894,317,131,956,119,297,1023,316],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonnatsbaseball","tag-adam-wainwright","tag-aj-burnett","tag-andy-sonnanstine","tag-barry-zito","tag-brandon-morrow","tag-cc-sabathia","tag-chris-carpenter","tag-clay-buchholz","tag-cliff-lee","tag-colby-lewis","tag-cole-hamels","tag-david-price","tag-jaime-garcia","tag-james-shields","tag-javier-vazquez","tag-jeremy-hellickson","tag-jon-lester","tag-jonathan-sanchez","tag-josh-beckett","tag-madison-bumgarner","tag-matt-cain","tag-matt-garza","tag-phil-hughes","tag-roy-halladay","tag-roy-oswalt","tag-shawn-marcum","tag-tim-lincecum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5194,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions\/5194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}