Beckett, Schilling, Halladay, Burnett, Kazmir THEN Wang-that's a ranking of starters in the AL East. The best Yankee starter is #6 in the division--at best. That is why the Yanks have two starters on their must do list by free agent or trade. A trade might send Pavano and Sheff to the White Sox for Freddy Garcia and a prospect one year away from pitching in the bigs--that would be a good trade but it wouldn't change the first sentence in this blog! The Yanks would like to have two starters in the top ten in their division preferably at least one in the top 3 and two in the top 6-- like Boston and Toronto. They can get there if they trade for Bonderman, Contreras, or maybe if they sign Zito- that is a push but Beckett and Burnett are injury prone and underachieve so that Zito would match them in wins with the Yankee offense behind him --even though he is not at the talent level of the other two. Matsuzaga is an important possibililty because if the Yanks somehow get to sign him-he could be a big winner like Wang-- foreign trained in the old school fundamentals which Beckett, Burnett and Papelbon seem to lack-- a solid guy, no drama, just play hard and find a way to win. Zito or Contreras or Schmidt plus Matsuzaga minus Pavano--that's a winning formula. But the Yanks are probably not ready to pull the plug on the Pavano adventure.