I've been hearing ceiling as well as current ability. He is what he is, would be a good descriptive term to describe him. And I think you may be overestimating one because the Cubs had such issues with that last year and the back end of the rotation cost the Cubs so many games. It's important to have rotation depth, but the 2011 level of awfulness isn't likely to repeat itself because of the injury issues we had. 92 FIP-. Randy Wells is rotation depth. Wood has a spot on almost any rotation. it's great that you think that, but almost everything i've read suggests that wood is just a guy. it's cool if he wants to pitch at the back of the rotation while he doesn't cost anything, but he doesn't seem like a guy we'll really want to see all the way through to free agency. He's 24 right?