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

Our starting rotation has been the heartbeat of our club,

If this had been last year, we would be starting a week later.

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.

Shows you how talented he is. Last year he won 15 games ... re-establishing himself,