To paraphrase Joe Maddon on the radio pre-game show: "[Evan] hasn't been hitting the breaking balls well." Combine that with, at times, shoddy defense and my intuition tells me Longoria is still going to be a Durham Bull, even if my gut tells me otherwise.

And per Jay Bradley of RaysBB: "Wills and Freed just mentioned that after talking with Hickey the earliest Kazmir could probably be back is the 3rd to 4th week in April."

Perhaps Sonny and Howell both need to be in the pen just so when Hammel and Jackson implode we have reserves.