Jesse Rubinoff

We're going to have to galaxy brain ourselves to try and justify it.

So we're going to have to wait.

I think he has to at least have one good start because a lot of the time when guys are pitching in the minors, it's hard to totally evaluate what they're doing because they don't have the same level of game plan.

A lot of times they're just throwing, just pitching without really game planning the same way as they would in the majors with that same kind of scouting report.

But you go back to his first couple starts in Dunedin.

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.