He's tried really hard to get back into the starting rotation, and he could possibly be our ace at one point this season. Scott's been hurt his whole career here, and this Sunday will be a great opportunity for him and for us.

Our starting rotation has been the heartbeat of our club,

There's not another starting rotation that measures up to ours. And then you get to the back part of the game, with (Brad) Lidge. That's who we are. We don't outslug teams; we outpitch them.

We have a very young starting rotation and I think it's important that they know they can lean on our offense to score some runs and take some pressure off them.

You can't even compare this starting rotation to last year. There's so much more depth this year.

I'm very comfortable with the starting rotation. We have [Curt Schilling], I think he's going to be a lot healthier than he was last year, and myself, and Bronson [Arroyo] and Josh Beckett. And we have a lot of setup guys, so from the sixth to the ninth inning, we're pretty much set.