Looks like Marquis, Suppan, Carpenter, and Williams - a steady diet of right-handers - at PNC this week to close the homestand. The Pirates counter with Benson, Vogelsong, Wells, and Oliver Perez. You have to wonder if Vogelsong won't be looking at a roster squeeze if he pitches not so good on Tuesday and the Bucs decide to hold onto Sean Burnett. There's no way you run Ryan out against the Cubs again, I think, not if you can avoid it at least.
As a team, the Bucs have a 1.089 OPS against Marquis, so maybe they'll get it going today.
Randall Simon and Jason Kendall have some crooked numbers against Jeff Suppan but those numbers don't really mean anything since they are close enough to average to fall with the MOE for a sample that small. Still, expect Simon to start on Tuesday.
No one has seen Chris Carpenter and he's been excellent this year. Jason Kendall owns Woody Williams so maybe he'll bat third on Thursday's finale.
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