Baseball’s Savior

Joe Torre isn’t banking on Carl Pavano being ready in early April.  Regardless, he’s going to be careful and it looks like he’ll use Pavano as he would a fifth starter and he probably won’t see a start in the first couple of weeks because of all the off days.  Because of back problems, Pavano hasn’t gotten into his normal pitching routine this spring and he hasn’t thrown from a mound yet.

There’s no doubt the Yankees need arms.  While I’m not banking on Carl Pavano returning to his 2004 form, if he can stay off the disabled list, it would go a long way towards the Yankees ending their World Series drought.  PECOTA projects him to throw 168 innings and honestly, I’d be happy with that if most of those were near the end of the season.