You're right. I would choose a kickass and healthy rotation over a kickass and healthy lineup simply because the former is harder to replace. But it's not like we need to go into next season expecting the injury bug to simply tradeoff. It would be unreasonable to expect several of our top starters to miss multiple months to injury. I don't expect all five starters to make 30 starts next year but I'm not expecting another extreme either.
I do remember Shawn Hill and John Patterson...those Nats teams were going to be right up at .500 or above, except...
I wish the Nats still had Lannan as number 6 starter...although maybe Lannan would rather play with the Phillies at $2.5M than shuffle around SDyracuse for $5M. Interesting question...
