Last Chance for Cliff?

The last two days HAVE been incredible. I don't know that I'd be making that statement had we not won last night, though.

Aside from a much needed win, last night also underscored another point: we have two aces. This is huge. We would be a very, very dangerous team in the post-season. Now we just have to make it there.

There's some interesting info here:

http://www.cleveland.com/sports/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/sports/1185439373128710.xml&coll=2

No word on the Dotel deal, although last night on Baseball Tonight Gammons said he was most likely to go to the Dodgers now.

What I found most interesting was this bit:

"Laffey (7-3, 3.24 at Buffalo) has been involved in some interesting gyrations of late. Over the weekend it looked like he was coming to Cleveland after being pulled out of a start in the third inning. The Indians denied that report, but the Buffalo News reported that Laffey's locker was cleaned out after that shortened start. He'll be pitching on short rest Thursday."

Basically, they're pitching him on short rest so that he'll be on the same rotation as Cliff Lee. Someone somewhere decided to give Cliff one last shot, against the Red Sox, no less.

What I find even more interesting about that is that this means they have no intention of moving Jason Stanford back to the rotation. I understand that completely, as we really don't have a reliable long man in the bullpen other than Stanford.

Tonight should be interesting.