Matt Clement

Is he ready for it?

It sounds like he's just straight, professional, way beyond his years, handling all the tests of spring training with the veterans, all that other stuff.

It's like glowing reports.

He can handle it.

I just think it's unlikely.

Again, like I said with Scooble, I get it.

How do you bring him up for one month?

and lose that extra year of owning him.

It's part of the business, and it's happened with Mark Pryor and Chris Bryant and Paul Steens.

So the Pirates also have this, like, you know, Alex Rodriguez is the youngest guy to debut, and he had 150 triple-A at-bats.

It's easy for the Pirates to say, hey, you know what?

He has to get a few more at-bats at triple-A until we bring him up.

So all signs to me, unless the contract is signed,

or he hits like 10 home runs the rest of spring training, that could maybe push it.

Well, I mean, the five of 24 are spectacular five, number one, so that helps.

And I haven't watched every at-bat, but I did see one of his first games

He hit a ball like 118 miles an hour into like a 30-mile-an-hour wind.

That would have been another home run, another hit.

He had a play.

It's just crazy you're talking about that kind of power.