Brach a starter?

[CTFan]

Sure he's valuable where he is, but so is every successful pitcher.

Does he have the stuff that will play well as a starter?

Would you give him that opportunity?

[backwardsk]

I wouldn't mess with our strength.

I'd also consider extending him and covert him to closer in 2017.

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[DrungoHazewood]

Sure he's valuable where he is, but so is every successful pitcher.

Does he have the stuff that will play well as a starter?

Would you give him that opportunity?

The last time he started was eight years ago in college, at Monmouth University, in the Northeast Conference. He was their best pitcher, but not by a lot, and he's the only player from that team to have played in the majors. Since then he's spent his entire professional career specializing in going one inning at a time.

We don't have any direct evidence here, but your Bayesian prior has to be that he's not a major league starter.

[MASNPalmer]

Interesting idea, impossible to pull off mid season. He also threw ~80 innings last year, so assuming a 20% increase in workload he would still only have about 95 innings in the tank for this year and he's already thrown ~30 innings. Let's save the 65 innings remaining for the pen in high leverage situations.