Our starting pitching has been a debacle, which is not something that could have been predicted easily by management early in spring training. As for myself, I would have said that starting pitching was the strength of the team going into the year, while the offense would go through fits and spurts. The utter amalgamated failure of Capuano, Suppan, Bush and Vargas is surprising in the least. What we thought was a strength going into the year is now a clear, clear weakness going into the offseason. Parra and Gallardo will go a ways to alleviating the pressure there, hopefully, but this team needs to pick up at least another starter before next spring.