Matt Clement

He's a young rookie pitcher.

Learning how to pitch in the big leagues in a role that he's not used to.

So that's a lot to put on him.

And he's done a fine job so far, honestly, being in that role, if you think of it from that perspective.

Well, I think it worked for Chandler because it was later in the season.

It wasn't the start of the year.

It wasn't the start of the year.

I think there's a big difference to starting the year in this position as to, hey, I'm coming up.

We're going to use you out of the pen sometime.

I'm going to say this.

I'm going to keep saying it unless there's major injuries.

I think when Jared Jones shows up, that's what you're going to see Jared Jones doing.

He's going to start in a pen.

If everything goes well with this rotation and everything's on par, just to kind of save his arm a little bit, save him some innings, ramp him up to this.

He's going to throw minor league games.

He's probably going to start minor league games.

He's going to build up to be a starter in minor league games.

But, you know, now that next step of adrenaline from minor league to major league is going to change and kind of to protect that arm, protect the investment.

I think in a perfect world, that's on their mind that they would like to do that.

Now, a couple guys are hurt.