Multiple Pitchers On The DL

So you have 4 pitchers on the DL?

Hamels

Darvish

Iwakuma

Parnell

What to do?

With only 1 DL spot, That's where Hamel's sits It leaves 3 players taking up space,

Parnell will probably be out for 6 weeks, or have Tommy John surgery so he is gone.

That means I'd now have

Hamels

Darvish

Iwakuma

With

David Price

Trevor Rosenthal

Sergio Romo

Zack Wheeler

Bartolo Colon

I need at least one more starter, so Parnell out and a 100+ pitch count pitcher, somebody who always goes at least 6 innings. I could also drop Russell Martin bench Catcher and alternate with Slated Starting Pitchers

& Cathcer when Salvador Perez or the Royals have an off day.

But which 2 pitchers are available.

John Lackey & Michael Pineda are both available, Lackey is slated to start April  7th at Fenway against the Rangers after getting of to a W in his first start, where as Pineda will be in Toronto on Saturday. Given the option I'd take Pineda for this one.

As for who else, I'd go with a PP for today, options are Quite good and I'm going to go with

Jose Quintana for the White Sox starting against another option Phil Hughes of the Twins.

So, With Darvish, Iwakuma & Hamels out, I'm still going to get an okay number of innings, but will have to play more daily, which doesn't bother me.