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Why is Ryan Rowland-Smith Starting?

Plain and simply… He’s the best available.

With Felix Hernandez and Miguel Bautista both hurt and the M’s needing to think youth movement, it would make great sense to look down to Tacoma, maybe to Ryan Feierabend… Oops…He’s on the DL. So is every other halfway decent starter they’ve got. The Tacoma roster is getting hammered right now.

Anyway, good game today–R.A. Dickey did better than can be expected, and the bullpen should get one heck of a workout tomorrow. But it’s a lost season so the main thing is to let Rowland-Smith pitch about five innings of “don’t get hurt” ball, hand it over to a couple mop-up men, and see what happens. And if he happens to throw a gem, wonderful.

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