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Ugly? Teams would kill for that as their 1-2-3-4. Spoiled a bit, eh, Steve?

Sure it's not ideal, and yeah, a little more certainty, youth, health and reliability would be nice. But show me a team that has those factors in their starting rotation. The Red Sox don't. The Blue Jays don't. Pitching's a toss up these days. That's just the way things are.

not to meantion the TBA could be Phillip Hughes or Humberto Sanchez, it's not nearly as bad as you think Steve. and read my comment on ur RJ projection.

How would you like Torre, or any Yankee rep, to respond to their comfort level with the rotation or anything else?

If they're not comfortable with things there's no need to go public with things.

Until you have other players you might as well be pragmatic about it.

Remember how Bubba Crosby was going to be the Yankee starting CF last year?

~~~Ugly? Teams would kill for that as their 1-2-3-4. Spoiled a bit, eh, Steve? ~~~

According to BIS, here are the win totals, projected, for the "big three" next year in NY:

Wang: 14, Mussina 12, Johnson 15

How am I supposed to get spoiled on that?

I'm with Steve on this one. Hindsight can be 20/20 but at least in 2004 and 2005 it appeared that the Yankees had the makings of a good staff with Brown, Vazquez, Pavano, and RJ.

I honestly don't see how someone can look at a Wang-Moose-RJ-Pavano and not be very worried. One of those pitchers was dreadful last year, is 43 years old and is coming off major surgery. The other hasn't pitched in 500+ days and doesn't seem to have the ability to stay healthy for even five minutes.

Why anyone would take these predictions/projections so seriously is beyond me. Any reason why Wang is gonna drop from 19 to 14 wins next season? Where is the reasoning and logic behind that?

~~~According to BIS, here are the win totals, projected...~~~~

Well, for one, Wang defies projection. None of the projection systems like him because he doesn't strike anyone out. But the projections, as some of the BP writers have said, do not factor in his extreme ground ball tendencies.

I also assume that win projections have nothing to do with offensive support from the Yankee lineup. On a mediocre offensive team, those numbers might seem accurate. But the Yanks score more runs than any other team and I don't see why that trend would change in 2007.

It's a good thing they play these games on the field during the summer and not on paper during the second week of November before trades and free agent signings are complete. We're jumping the gun quite a bit here.

~~~Why anyone would take these predictions/projections so seriously is beyond me. Any reason why Wang is gonna drop from 19 to 14 wins next season? Where is the reasoning and logic behind that?~~~

BIS and Bill James said that Wang had 5 "cheap wins" in his total of 19, FWIW.

It happens when you have the best scoring team behind you and a relatively reliable bullpen?