I like http://mvn.com/thesouthpaw/  articles: An Interesting Idea and comments &  Bring on the Janssen and comments as explaining some great ideas.

Casey Janssen makes one more start, 12th May, rejoining the team able to start 17th-18th May.  Ricky Romero makes 2, possibly 3 starts, 13th May, 18th May, possibly 23rd May, rejoining the team able to start 23rd-24th or 28th-29th.  Jesse Litsch will make the first of 4 or 5 starts, probably starting the 12th-15th May, rejoining the team able to start 27th-30th or 1st-4th June. 

Cito has a policy whereby regulars cannot lose their job due to injury, only to continued poor play after return.  Toronto's day offs: 28th May and 1st June, will allow the rotation to be reset.  I prefer Halladay, Romero R., Janssen, Litsch and Richmond; Tallet in the pen; Ray, Purcey and Cecil in AAA.

This is my evaluation of the starters.  Romero is an ideal #2 starter.  Janssen is an ideal #3 starter, with strong #2 starter potential.  Litsch is an ideal #3 starter, with #2 starter potential.  Richmond is an ideal #3 starter, with #2 starter potential.  You may not agree, but you must admit, this is a good pitching staff.

I agree with all the points; nobody has proven anything (other than Doc) over a full year, but with this much volume, the days of Ohka/Thompson/Zambrano seem long gone. So what to do with all of these pitchers? A pitcher can always be traded for a bat, but do we even need a bat? Where? This team really isn't getting significantly below average production from any spot. The only thing, to me, that makes sense is the need to turn a "good" production spot into a "very good" or "elite" spot. Obviously this is difficult to do, because as some pointed out a few months ago, teams don't trade one potentially elite piece (i.e. Matt Cain) for a quantity of good pieces (Lind, R Romero, Campbell+). Although, in hindsight, that would not have been too bad for the Giants (if they could have stolen Arnsberg to work with Romero, that is).

To me, the most obvious pitching trade target is Eric Bedard. In terms of all the other top of the rotation arms in the majors, none seem available at a price we might be able to pay (i.e. the Giants won't be trading Lincecum anytime soon). The Mariners will likely sell and with Bedard and Washburn likely leaving as free agents and the team in need of pitchers behind Felix Hernandez (Carlos Silva!), our quantity might actually be able to get some quality. With Bedard's injury issues and the recent protectiveness over blue chip prospects with the economy, the M's won't be getting back a centrepiece player like Laporta (or at least I can't see it). For example, in our case, JP would NEVER trade Cecil as a piece for Bedard. So perhaps filling two rotation spots with solid number 4 starters is something the M's would consider.

Picking specific players is always fruitless. GM's will never do exactly what you want them to. But, for example, a package headlined by Litsch (when healthy) and Purcey or Janssen, would it be too much or not enough? Presumably Bedard would sign an extension here and we'd get into the same problem we had with Burnett: an elite pitcher (even more elite) with injury/durability issues. Is it worth the risk? Considering our ridiculous pitching depth (i.e. we could lose Bedard for 10 starts a year and still get average production from our 6-8 starters), maybe it could work. Plus, having Doc pitch ahead of Bedard would ensure a rested bullpen for Eric, espescially if he needs to top out at 100 pitches as he has been accused of doing. In terms of any kind of pitching upgrade, he seems to be the best fit but he would obviously be a high risk proposition at this point.

Moe, I agree the team has needs at the spots you mentioned. I just meant that at this point virtually every position is producing fairly well. For example, JP isn't going to trade Scutaro and a pitcher for Hardy. Maybe he should, but he won't. So in terms of areas where he might consider upgrading (and that Beeston will approve a payroll addition), the fireballing Canadian might make the most sense.

Cecil, Marcum, Romero, Janssen, Litsch, Purcey vs Hughes, Chamberlain etc. Perhaps Baseball America and others will think twice. Go JP!

The Toronto Blue Jays are headed back from the West Coast with the AL’s best record, its most productive offense and almost too many good starting pitchers.

The Oakland Athletics have the league’s second-worst record, a miserable offense, no proven starters—and little reason to think this rough season will get better soon.

There have not been many opportunities for the Jays to confidently pat themselves on the back but this has to be one of those moments now. The only thing that could bring down this team would be if Aaron Hill were suspended 50 games for whatever it is he's taking for his awesomeness.

There are still questions and challenges ahead (i.e. every series until October) and it may be all thanks to the schedule that got them here, but it is nice for the Jays to be playing with all the confidence in the world before they stare down Jeter and friends.

Meanwhile, poor Oakland. There was a time when these Jays didn't have the heart to crush an opponent so rudely. Such as 2001. There will be no Escobar or Loaiza May beasts to see here.

Give me 15 Carpenters, not 15 Suppans.

This is probably indicative of nothing, but the Jays depth chart (updated today allegedly) is showing Casey as the #5 starter and Tallet as the #6 starter (Doc, Cecil, Ray, Richmond the others).  It also shows Janssen as no longer being on the 15-day DL (not sure when this happened).

This is likely just the reflective of the liberty of the website administrator, but is food for though.  Assuming that Janssen is ready to go, what's the rotation/roster adjustment?  Is it as simple as Janssen in, Ray out?  I think one more look at Ray would be helpful, because he looked to be pitching better than his line would indicate. 

...and Blair had this in his latest column:

Gaston doesn't think it's fair to let Romero lose his spot in the rotation because injury, and he likes the idea of having another lefty in the bullpen. That would suggest Tallet goes back into the pen, but Gaston reminded everybody that Cecil was a closer in college.

Cecil to the bullpen is a move that makes a lot of sense at some point this season, I'm just not sure now is the right time.  He's making gains on endurance right now and I think the move to the pen should come around the all-star break (to save his innings count).

Do we trade Doc to an NL team for three ubber prospects - say a young Rolen, a young Scutaro and a young Cecil?

You mean an old Scutaro.