Bruce Levine

Well, Marshall, it's a great question because I think –

the beginning of the year is different than any other time in the season.

So guys are coming out of spring training.

They're used to throwing four innings.

They've only worked their way up to 70 to 80 pitches.

If something happens early in the first few games, even the first week or 10 days, you're going to need long men.

And right now they have Colin Ray, who's their number one long guy and was a savior to the staff last year when Steele went down with an injury.

And

He made 28 really good starts for the Cubs last year.

So you have the one guy.

But early in the year, I think the thinking is that you're going to need more than one long guy because of weather situations.

Let's say you have early season rain, two innings into the game, it's an hour and a half delay.

You're not coming back with your starting pitcher.

So I think having more than one long man with Ray and then Brown being available, I think is something of value that they look at.

You know, the hard part was figuring out whether Brown should be going to AAA along with Assad, working every five days and being ready to come up and be a starter if one of your starters goes down.

But Assad is going to be that guy for now.

And Brown will be...

Part of the bullpen, and I think he can pitch in any part of the bullpen, really.

I mean, you have that 97-mile-an-hour fastball and that knuckle curve coming out of the bullpen late as well.

So he's accomplished an awful lot this year mentally.