If any of you guys realistically believes that Lannan will be back next year you are nuts. The Nats are paying him $5 million to have made a total of two starts to this point of the season. They don't want to pay him and that relationship is probably permanently broken. Linty, I would argue that Jackson IS the #5 at this point with Detwiler frankly having surpassed him. I would re-sign Jackson too or (in an even more ideal world) let him go and put Lannan into that #5 spot but those either will or will not be possibilities (in Lannan's case the answer is not). Regardless there is too much pitching out there for us to realistically struggle to find a very good #5. I'm more concerned about what kind of depth we will be able to maintain in our minor league system for when we inevitably need it.
