"When the Indians traded for Derek Lowe after the World Series, it was hard to get past the 17 games he lost last season with Atlanta. The one thing that made those defeats tolerable was that in Lowe the Indians were adding a fourth potential high-inning starter to a rotation that included Justin Masterson, Ubaldo Jimenez and Fausto Carmona.

The last time the Indians had three pitchers top 200 innings in a season was 1997 with Dave Burba, Bartolo Colon and Charles Nagy. The last time they had four 200-inning pitchers was 1955 with Early Wynn, Herb Score, Bob Lemon and Mike Garcia.

So much for Plan A. "