"Right-hander Jake Peavy said he is confident he'll pitch regularly on four days of rest next season, when he'll be 21 months removed from his surgery to reattach a torn lat muscle.

Doing it for the last seven weeks of this season shouldn't be a problem, Peavy said, but he wouldn't mind the extra day of rest, either.

''In a normal scenario, I can't see it being a problem, me going on four [days of rest],'' Peavy said Wednesday. ''But, heck, we've played good and pitched good as a whole staff under this six-man rotation that we've had for the better part of the year. I'll do whatever I'm told for the remainder of the year.''"