That's right, Heltonfan.
There's some good arms out there (yeah, and some total crap, too), and overall there's the potential to put together at least an average pen.
Whether it's a solid pen or not will have a lot to do with how Hurdle and Apodaca manage things ... in who they use in the bullpen vs. starting (Jimenez, Buchholz, Bautista, Affeldt), in who they keep on the 25-man roster, in how they move pitchers between the Sky Sox and the big club (particularly guys like Lawrence and Speier, coming off injury), and in how the starting pitching develops (again, this may free up Buchholz for relief duty).
But the talent is there. And the Rockies are basically in the same bullpen situation as, oh, about 25 other clubs -- they have some proven arms, some good young arms, some old arms who may have a little bit left, and some total garbage.
Kind of like the Red Sox but with a better closer candidate (now that Papelbon is starting) I'd say.
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