Clay Harbor

One is a very difficult situation in that you don't have too many veterans that

on the pitching staff.

It's a fairly young pitching staff, especially in the starting rotation.

And by young, I'm talking about major league experience, especially experience winning a whole lot of games in a given year.

You don't have a whole lot of that.

And then your young guys are a little too young.

You look at McDougal, and you look at Smith, and you look at Noah Schultz.

They're not ready quite yet.

Doesn't mean they won't be this year.

They probably will see one or two of those guys this year, maybe all three, who knows.

So you're kind of in between.

You have some young pitchers on your major league team, some even younger pitchers that aren't quite ready yet, and the development of those three, as well as the guys who are currently in the starting rotation, that's going to determine just exactly how the Sox are going to be.

I think the bullpen will be better.

You didn't want to lose too many essential players in spring training, but the loss of Teal and the loss of Vassell

are something that you have to overcome.

Vassell, I think, is going to be difficult because he was so versatile.

He could do whatever it is that Will wanted him to do, and now you've lost him for the year to Tommy John surgery, but those things can't be helped.

Those things are going to happen.

That's why you have to have depth.

Well, I think he tried everything that he could to make it and thought perhaps after the teal injury that they would see him on the team.