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[QUOTE="FanInNC, post: 5330730, member: 13050"]
We definitely don't have a true #1 for a playoff series, and that's super concerning.

Love McLean, and maybe he'll never come down to Earth, but a guy who has 4 career starts being our most trusted arm is pretty wild.

But I'll have to agree I think if a series started today we'd be rolling with Peterson, McLean and I'm going to say in game 3 I'd be more apt to start Manaea and bring in Holmes as a long reliever.  Try to get 6 or 7 innings between the 2.

For a 4th start...yikes.  Maybe Senga with a quick hook in favor of Tong?  I don't like bringing in Senga out of the pen, he seems like a guy that has to everything just so in his pre game routines and what not - I don't think he'd do well coming out of the pen.  The thing is we have seen Tong for 1 game so far.  What McLean is doing is pretty historic, it's naive to believe Sproat and Tong will have similar results.  For all we know Tong will be inconsistent over these next 4 starts and will be every bit of a wild card as anyone else.

Heck we may very well be trusting Megill to be a game 4 starter for us in the playoffs!
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