Contingent on Carpenter's elbow being better now and him not suffering an injury, the Cardinals rotation will be far from makeshift. They have the second best rotation in the division contingent on Sheets being healthy. Awful bold statement. I think the Cards, Cubs, and Brewers will all be fighting it out for the tops in the division when it comes to pitching performance, but I would be reluctant to say that any of them are definitely the best or 2nd at this point. I do think the Cards biggest problem (assuming their offense comes around) is getting from the potentially good starting pitching to Izzy and hoping he holds up for the whole year.