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he's going to create a traffic jam in the rotation. Obviously injuries frequently require just such a jam in order to compete, but a rotation which includes Felix, Paxton, Taijuan and Hultzen is turn-of-the-century A's good - except Billy only had a Big Three.
Seriously cannot understand why nobody is talking about his return date as a pivotal moment for the M's rotation. Even if *all* he did was provide league average numbers across the board, he becomes a cornerstone for the franchise. He absolutely detonated AAA in 6 2013 starts, and nobody argued about his top-of-the-draft selection,
That the M's shut him down in late September suggests to me that he looked good and they're confident he'll be coming to camp ready to contribute. If they weren't, it's more likely they would have had him work out over the winter.
If all these young SP's break the right way, even modestly, this team is set for a long, long time.