Its even worse planning to pin your hopes on having Ben Sheets throw a complete, or near-complete game, against a team that takes a ton of pitches and walks a lot. Who, exactly, was asking Ben to throw a CG or near CG? We're talking about 1 inning tonight, and since we might be headed for extra innings tonight, that inning could be huge for the pen. Dan Kolb, if he can't pitch, should be on the DL. So if he only needs to miss 6-7 days as they expect, you'd put him on the DL for an EXTRA 8-9? That's just dumb. I hate to say "I told you so", but having a guy like Wayne Franklin in AAA wouldn't look so bad right now. So he could start a game and put us down 6 runs by the 4th inning? Yeah, that'd be useful. He has averaged only 98 pitches per start in his career, which is probably about where he should be. While six pitches doesn't sound like a lot, over 35 starts, that's 210 pitches, or two full games. Suddenly, its not so trivial a number. But you said he's going to be on the DL GUARANTEED this year.... how's he going to get 35 starts? http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/roll.gif