This winter's free agent market for starting pitching in Major League Baseball is especially thin, with John Lackey being the only real headliner.
Other pitchers, like Rich Harden and Randy Wolf, might fill out the middle or bottom of a team's rotation, but some teams are looking to upgrade the front of their rotation.
That's where the trade market begins.
The economy has stripped teams of a lot of the financial flexibility, and big contracts are becoming as unpopular as ever. There also happens to be a fairly large number of pitchers in the final years of their contracts, making them potential short term fixes for team that feel they're close to taking the next step.
Let's take a look at some pitchers that will probably get traded at some point before August (Roy Halladay) and some other arms that might become available.
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