Sunday stuff

There's a first person account of Oliver Perez's start at Indy last night over at HW. It is a lot more negative than the account in the PG's notebook today. It sounds like more of the same from April and May to me. The writer does give Paulino and Bautista sparkling reviews though.

Meanwhile, said notebook focuses on the Duke/Maholm situation. It says the team's plan is to have Duke miss two starts, then pick up a regular spot in the rotation from the day he goes on the DL until the end of the year. Of course it fails to mention just how many people will be in that "rotation" in September. My guess is more than 5. They mention Bullington is on his way up and might be up already if not for his start on Friday. Add him to Snell coming back up in September, Perez coming back from his injury, and Duke coming back and we're going to have to drop more than Fogg from the rotation to make room (though maybe Maholm only gets one or two starts and goes to the pen). They also placed Castillo on the 60-day DL, thus clearing the needed space for Maholm on the 40-man.