Wednesday Morning Links: 3/30/16

Remember when the Yankees did the tandem starter thing with Phil Hughes and David Huff at the end of 2013? Neither of them could be trusted to navigate a lineup more than 1.5 or 2 times, so Joe just started with one, got a few innings out of him, then brought in the next one to at least try to make it through 5 or 6. Maybe he should think about trying that again with CC and Ivan Nova this year. They’re both so inconsistent that it might be worth it to try if the rest of the pitching could be counted on for extra length when needed. Eventually when rules and rosters expand in the future and everybody operates with a 6 or 7-man rotation, we’ll probably see every team do that as a way to minimize the potential damage caused by their weakest starters. That’ll be fun. Now onto the links.

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