The Rays may have a good problem on their hands here. With Jason Hammel and Edwin Jackson seemingly improved and making consistently good starts the Rays are holding down the fort pretty well with Kazmir and Garza out. Then Jeff Niemann comes in and performs nicely in his first major league start adding to the promise. Now Matt Garza and Scott Kazmir are heading to Vero Beach for rehab and may be back soon. When they come back the Rays have a dilemma, what to do with all this pitching? This is a little exaggerated as we all know these guys could revert back to last years form at any time and there is no such thing as too much pitching. This is nice to see with the Rays after all these years of horrid pitching and bad draft picks. There is a ton of pitching on the farm on the way and with everyone doing fairly well there could be some interesting things to deal with. Andy Sonnanstine has seemed to pitch his way back to Durham so that should be an easy one. If Niemann performs well again today it’s going to be hard to send him back down. Jackson and Hammel have both proved to be good enough at this point and neither one seems to do well out of the bullpen, Hammel especially. This leads me to think a possible trade announcement is coming today. The Rays have been linked to the Cubs Matt Murton for some time now over at MLBTR and this could be possible. A lot could go down and it’s nice to see the Rays having some good problem’s, especially with the injuries we’ve seen so far.
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