Orioles wing it with young rotation.(Baseball)

Thirty starts, 191 1/3 innings. Sounds like your average injury-interrupted season for Pedro Martinez. But, no--those are the combined career totals of the Orioles' four starting pitchers after ace Sidney Ponson.

That's right; the Orioles will be using four starting pitchers with less than one year of major league experience in a division featuring three of the best offenses in baseball. Their plan is audacious, perhaps even dangerous. Though it's not without logic, it's likely to produce painful results.

"It's going to be hard" Red Sox righthander Derek Lowe says. "Each one of 'em will make roughly eight starts against Boston and New York. I don't wish ...