Cleveland's five starters went 13 for 15 in the period, led by Mark Price's 9 points on 4-for-4 shooting.

Thirteen starters from a year ago gone in salary-cap cuts.

Late starters can go right to the most up-to-date technologies.

"Our starters can go 40 minutes if they have to, but we don't want them to have to."

"With strict pitch counts and starters not going far into games, you don't see guys throwing 280 innings," Shapiro said.

The offensive starters were going against the second-string defense, which is especially inexperienced on the line.

The new starters are going to make errors, inevitably.

"Our starters are only going to go as far as they can, and we have to get outs when we're called upon."

I can't assume all my starters are going to be healthy coming out of spring training.

As the year goes on and the starters go deeper, it's going to change.