padilla vs. dreifort vs. lackey

[Guest]

I have wood, prior, millwood, halladay, meche, zambrano and padilla as my starters. im thinking about picking up either lackey or dreifort and dumping the slumping padilla. padilla has had his moments, and has great "stuff", but dreifort is hot and lackey has faced some tough opponents. how do you guys rank these three?

[Guest]

i forgot to include kim into the mix. he is also available, and from what i see he could possibly go to the sox or yankees. if he goes somewhere and fills the closer role he could be very valuable, especially since my closers are williamson, borowski, eldred and izzy (dl).

[jdh]

I would stick with Padilla. Dreifort is hot right now and gets lots of K's but he has a history of being inconsistent and also of being very injury prone. I am not sold on Lackey right now and think his hot streak down the pennant stretch last year may have been a bit of a fluke. Padilla should come around, and you'll regret it if you drop him, someone else grabs him and then he gets it back together.

[John Bonzo]

Personally, i would drop Padilla for Dreifort but not Lackey