I apologize, I have not read all the posts in this thread but just wanted to chime in after a few games. I think what having Lohse on the team has done is given us a veteran leader presence, which I'm not sure we have on the staff. It also gives us some stability and will allow us to bring up youth around him. Not in the traditional sense where you have an ace, and you build off of him, but more a middle rotation guy that is consistent. Because we have so many unknowns on our staff, having Lohse there, really helps keep things calm. It let's us do things like bring up Burgos and if he doesn't work, bring up the next young guy. I believe it's easier to do this with out so much panic, because we have more stability from a guy like Lohse. Hopefully this makes some sense, but I just think Lohse really buys us more time to figure out which young pitchers are MLB ready without the panic.