Outside of Halladay, there are a few other decent starters that teams seem willing to move. If the Braves decide to throw in the towel, Javier Vazquez could be one of those pitchers.
Vazquez is an interesting case. He's not a dominant, ace-type pitcher, but he can eat up innings and throw a gem now and then. Over the last decade, he's thrown under 200 innings once (2004 when he only threw 198). He's a strikeout pitcher prone to the long ball, and he can make several quality starts for a team looking to win down the wire.
The lone mark against Vazquez is that he hasn't done well thus far in the postseason. In a small sample, he's been pretty terrible (10.34 ERA in 15.2 innings). It should be noted here, however, that Vazquez was rolled by the champion Red Sox in 2004 and the AL champion Rays in 2008. Bad luck against good teams or choked when the chips were down? Teams will have to decide.
Vazquez makes sense to any team looking for pitching depth, which limits the field to every team. He'd make a good third starter and a dominant fourth guy. He may well be the fall back for any team that misses on the Halladay deal.
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