Before the Pirates lost to Detroit today they announced that the injured Jeff Karstens would return to the starting to the rotation, then after the game they announced that his first start would be tomorrow in Philadelphia. This addition to the rotation meant that someone would have to be subtracted from the rotation and the odd man out happened to be Brad Lincoln.Karstens went on the DL April eighteenth after he was pulled from the game after just one inning of work, this was just Karstens third game of his season. In his first two starts he went six and then five inning giving up just one run his first outing and three his next outing. Karstens also went 9-9 in 2011 with a3.38 ERA over 162.1 innings, so this is clearly a big addition to the squad. In my opinion this give the Pirates four very good starters out of a possible five, the starter not included in those four being Kevin Correia who has been rumored (by other bloggers) to be on the trading block, but who knows.
On the other side of this move Lincoln will be moved back to the bullpen where he belongs. Lincoln pitched very well in his last outing where he took a no hitter into the sixth but other then that he has a 6.08 ERA as a starter which just isn't very good. However he has a 0.42 ERA as a reliever this year so he can obviously do work in that role. This means that with the addition of Karstens someone has to go and I have a feeling that it might be the recently recalled Bryan Morris who didn't even get a chance to pitch at this point in his short stint as a major leaguer, but we will find out the move for sure tomorrow.
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