I can’t help but think that eventually, Glendon Rusch is going to return to Glendon Rusch.

And you have to remember – we have to win the division first to get to the playoffs and while the NL West has been absolutely horrific, everyone else around us will get healthy just like we are starting to, and a couple of them are making trades to get better NOW, which is something I can guarantee you we will not do.

Let’s compare this year to last year:

Glendon Rusch = Josh Fogg from last year (at least for right now)
Aaron Cook = Jeff Francis from last year
Ubaldo Jimenez = himself
Jeff Francis = hopefully Morales from last year
? = Aaron Cook/Mark Redman/several others from last year

The question is, who is that question mark? It certainly is NOT Kip Wells – he needs to be DFA’d and quick, in my opinon. When you said we have help in AAA, I respectfully disagree. Morales can’t get anybody out, Hirsh is walking the universe, Towers is garbage, and Sean Smith is not ready. Maybe Valerio De Los Santos? Maybe JDLR if he can show any form of consistency (although I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – I like him out of the pen)? I just don’t know. And, I don’t know of anyone on the open trade market that can come in and help us right now.

Either way, if we don’t stop dropping balls to the D-Backs (who apparently were pretty pissed off at us for celebrating in front of them on opening weekend, judging by the gigantic bitch slap they’ve brought down on us the first three series of the year), we have no shot at the playoffs anyway. Face it, we’ve been pwned on the road and in our own division, and that has to change before we can start talking post-season.

So – any ideas for a fifth starter?