Jeff Passan

at the very least they would consider doing?

Yeah, and here's the thing, Saran.

It's a little bit different in modern baseball when it comes to reestablishing trade value.

It's not quite as much, let me see you go out there and do it for five games so I know this is real.

Teams are going to have a very solid sense after, like, two starts, and even minor league starts, I'm talking.

Like, two starts about how his stuff is playing and how his stuff looks and what the movement profiles look like and whether this is the same Chris Bubich that we saw last season.

If there are similarities...

in his stuff and in his command and in his movement, then yeah, I think instantaneously he shoots up the list of trade candidates and actually could be a very attractive one, but you also have to price in the fact that

The man's just been hurt a lot, and so there's going to be an inherent willingness not to give up a whole lot for a guy who you know that you can't necessarily rely on, and you're just hoping that you're going to be able to get him to the end of the season healthy.

There should not.

If somebody else wants him as a reliever, then they can turn him into a reliever.

No.

I understand that at the deadline, relievers actually are valuable.

So if there's an argument to be made to Ren, it's that.

That Chris Bubich as a dominant left-handed reliever in a market that doesn't have a whole lot of left-handed relievers would be very attractive to teams.

But...

I think Chris Bubich, as a very effective left-handed starter, is even more attractive.

And you're likeliest to get the most out of him from that starting role, knowing that, hey, if you see him as a reliever, make him a reliever when he gets to you.

I mean, it just depends.

We've learned throughout the years that pitching less doesn't make you healthier necessarily.