Jesse Rubinoff

His first start, he allowed five earned runs.

His second start was a little bit better.

He went four innings, no earned runs.

But then you mentioned his first start in Buffalo was five earned runs, five hits, four innings, only struck out two.

And...

it's palatable if a guy's on a rehab stint and he has one bad start where he gives up a lot of runs and you can kind of chalk that up to just not executing the game plan the same way.

But when it's four at different levels of the minors, that's a little bit more of a track record.

And you would think at some point having the major league stuff that can be dominant at times would be overbearing for the minor leaguers.

And he would mix in a couple of good starts, but he's,

he literally hasn't had that whether it's at class a or in triple a. So he's got to show at least something more than what he's shown to this point or else he's not going to be in the majors anytime soon.

I mean, he looked kind of fine the last three starts.

Yeah, there's no doubt.

I actually think I'm pretty confident in Eric Lauer being the number five starter at this juncture.

Because if you look at the last three starts, it's hard to read too much into the flu situation that he had that was really bogging him down.

You wonder how much that played into it and how much it's altered his numbers.

But the last three starts, he's been decent.

He's gone five innings in each of them.

And you look at that and you say, well...

what should I be expecting out of a number five starter?

Like if you're your top three guys are giving you, you know, three 50 and lower ERAs and your number five starter is right around league average.