Endaround - perhaps my #4 claim of Johnson is too low, but your #2 claim is off. I hope you realize Johnson just posted a 3.91 ERA this year and had a FIP of 3.76 so it wasn't like he was incredibly lucky to post that ERA. If the Brewers make him their #2 SP in 2009, there will be no playoffs in Milwaukee. Why make such a claim? We're assuming that Gallardo is replacing Sheets and coming close to matching his productivity and also hoping Parra can improve, even if it's just a little bit. Do you realize we were 49-40 before the Sabathia trade and 41-32 after it? Those are nearly identical winning percentages so it's not like we were terrible before Sabathia came. We were right in the playoff race with whichever pitcher you want to choose as our #2 starter behind Sheets last year, whether it be Bush, Parra, Suppan or McClung. Would you say that Randy Johnson is better than all of those pitchers? My point is being missed, focus on a younger top flight FA starter. That sounds great, but what do you plan on giving up? You're either going to have to give up someone like Fielder or Hardy from the major league club or a few top prospects like Gamel, Jeffress and Escobar from the minor league club. Teams just don't give young, cheap, good starting pitchers away.