BALTIMORE - When the Blue Jays embarked on their six-man rotation experiment about a month ago, they had to understand there would be times like this.
Times of uncertainty, times of confusion, times when hard decisions would have to be made.
The completed series against the Orioles was simple and straightforward. Marco Estrada, J.A. Happ and Aaron Sanchez had been pencilled in for as long as 10 days in advance.
But while that was going on, the immediate future beyond that was, and remains, murky.
Throughout the series against the Orioles, manager John Gibbons kept silent about his pitching plans for the three-game series that begins Friday in rain-soaked St.