Braves manager/guru/deity Bobby Cox sat down with Mark Bowman for an interview. It is is a good read, but what is most interesting is this very simple exchange.
MLB.com: What do you like about your new-look pitching staff?
Cox: One of the biggest things for us is how [Peter] Moylan and [Rafael] Soriano bounce back from their elbow surgeries. They are two key pieces in our bullpen. If they throw like we know they can, that's going to really help our starting rotation, because you can cover three easy innings with them and [Mike] Gonzalez. If they are all healthy, that would be a huge plus, because our rotation has a chance to be really good.
Cox was asked about his pitching staff, that includes starters and bullpen, but Cox only talks about the bullpen. This is why he does what he does, and I don't. I was certain Cox would say something about Lowe or Vazquez or Kawakami (i.e., starters), but instead he likes the bullpen. Cox ran his bullpen out there a lot last year, b/c of some bad starting pitching, but Bobby knows that a staff starts from the back forward. If you can't finish a game, then it doesn't matter what happened in the previous 8 or 7 innings. I like this attitude, and I have to agree. If we go Soriano, Moylan and Gonzalez for 7, 8, and 9th inning (and they all stay healthy), we are going to win a lot of games.
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