Week 17 Pitchers Poll: Are We Sure This Isn't Just A Two-Man Rotation?

All right, so that headline may be a bit unfair to Francisco Liriano, but Liriano has only made two starts with the White Sox, so it's too early to judge his time here.

My point is that the White Sox have gone from a regular five-man rotation to a six-man rotation and now back to a five-man rotation over the last ten days, and the truth is it's been a two-man rotation all season long.

There's Jake Peavy and Chris Sale, and then there's everybody else.

RANK	PLAYER	POINTS	LW	+/-
1	Jake Peavy	227	1	16
2	Chris Sale	214	2	18
3	Gavin Floyd	135	3	2
4	Jose Quintana	97	4	0
5	Phil Humber	73	5	-3
6	Matt Thornton	71	6	3
7	Addison Reed	70	7	8
8	Nate Jones	64	8	5
9	Hector Santiago	50	9	0
10	Jesse Crain	47	10	5
11	Dylan Axelrod	37	11	0
12	John Danks	34	12	0
13	Zach Stewart	21	13	0
14	Francisco Liriano	17	NA	17
15	Brett Myers	12	15	5
16	Will Ohman	10	14	0
17	Eric Stults	7	15	0
18	Leyson Septimo	5	17	0
18	Donnie Veal	5	17	0
20	Brian Omogrosso	4	19	0
21	Brian Bruney	2	20	0
22	Jhan Marinez	0	21	0
23	Pedro Hernandez	-4	22	0

Yeah, Jose Quintana has pitched well, but he's hit a wall of sorts. He's at 97 points right now after putting up a 0 this week, but he had 83 points back in Week 13. That means he's scored 14 points over the last month.

Both Peavy and Sale had more than that in their last start.

This week Peavy and Sale combined for 34 points in their two starts. Gavin Floyd, Jose Quintana, Phil Humber and Francisco Liriano combined for 16. Of those 16 points, 17 came from two Liriano starts! Floyd, Quintana and Humber check in at -1 point!

Humber will probably put up more points from his new spot in the bullpen. Well, assuming he's there long considering Dylan Axelrod just got off the disabled list down in Charlotte and Hector Santiago is being stretched out to start.

Last week's rankings can be found here.