He may end up being a good MLB pitcher, but yesterday was a forfeit game in my opinion. There was no reason to bring him up for a spot start with 5 healthy starters and a couple of healthy long men, and no double headers. If Cora wanted to give the rotation a break,he could have limited one or 2 of the starters to 75-80 pitches and gone to Johnson or Velasquez. Compound bringing up a kid and giving him a start, he puts JD in RF and Travis in LF and Swihart behind the Trump.
i have seen him twice now — once in Spring training and yesterday. He blew up spectacularly both times. I am not interested in seeing him start again. Maybe the adrenaline and nerves of a start are too much for him. Sometimes it is better to let a guy get his feet wet out of the pen.