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What if the Angels would sign CC Sabathia and trade for Jake Peavy and combine those two former Cy Young Award winners with three All-Stars already on the Anaheim premises: John Lackey, Ervin Santana and Joe Saunders?
That super rotation of five, all 30 or under, was proposed this week by Lyle Spencer of mlb.com.
It would cost the Angels a ton of money, including a deserved new Lackey contract, and it would also cost young starter Jered Weaver and some of the franchise’s big-league ready prospects. Padres manager and former Angels pitching coach Bud Black (pictured, with Peavy) would likely pick the right ones for San Diego’s purposes.
Peavy has $63 million coming the next four seasons, and the Angels would likely have to get in the ballpark of the Yankees’ six-year, $140 million offer to Sabathia to land the big left-hander. Newsday is reporting the Yankees are considering raising their offer in light of the Angels’ involvement with Sabathia.
If the Angels do take this dream rotation direction, forget about acquiring a big bat.
But what a rotation!
You would have to go way back to find a rotation like that,  perhaps all the way to the four-man rotation days of say the 1970 Baltimore Orioles, who won 108 games and a World Series despite a team batting average of .257. Mike Cuellar and Dave McNally each won 24 games and Hall of Famer Jim Palmer won 20. The lineup included a pair of Hall of Famers in Brooks Robinson and Frank Robinson. Also seeing time with that club were a pair of 21-year-olds who had nice careers with the Angels: Bobby Grich and Don Baylor.
Among five-man rotations, the Mets had some pretty awesome ones in the 70s anchored by Tom Seaver and Jerry Koosman — but nothing like the proposed Angels quintet.
I have known Lyle Spencer for more than 30 years, and he has always had the ability to propose bold concepts — and in a way that makes sense. This is one of those.
You can hear the arguments already, how the Angels would struggle to score runs. But Mike Scioscia’s managerial style has always been National League and with starters like those, not so many runs would be needed.
And a rotation headed by two Cy Young winners plus Lackey just might be able to finally silence those great Red Sox lineups in a postseason series.
Sabathia has struggled in postseason play, but with that rotation, he likely would not have to pitch on three days rest to get his team into the playoffs and could go in fresh and strong.
Shortstop Khalil Greene might or might not be part of a Peavy package. He is coming off a horrible 2008 but his previous four Padres seasons offer a whole lot more punch than anyone the Angels have run out there recently.
Just another scenario to consider; probably unlikely, but boy, the possibilities …