Matt Clement

That gets thrown out the door and you're trying to win a pennant in whatever the case may be.

But I think he could start in a pen, maybe catch fire with it, and maybe at the end of the year use him as a starter or just leave him in the pen the whole way through and let him throw his 102 miles an hour.

I think he's definitely up for the task.

I think it definitely could kind of throw a curveball, to say, into what everybody thinks they're going to do.

But I think most importantly, from his standpoint, you're coming off a surgery.

And that's an easier way.

It's an easier workload to work in work coming off that surgery.

You can control it with less innings, less pitches, which the Pirates are set up in this pitching side of the thing for a lot of years right now, like many years going forward.

And to be able to control one of these guys as they're coming off an unfortunate injury to get him back up to speed, I think is really attractive in my eyes.

And I think it's an option.

You know, he's a starting pitcher to me.

Like, he's going to be a starting pitcher.

I just think that this year you have some wiggle room with what you have as far as the rest of the guys.

They're a lot of fun.

I mean, especially when you're – they're a lot of fun because there's a lot of hope.

And at the beginning of the year, no matter how bad you're supposed to – I mean, even the Rockies, like, they're home opener even though they're probably the worst team in baseball.

It's fun because it's like a new beginning and you aren't out of it and you have a chance.

But, like, I think this year is even more special for the Pirates because there's this buzz behind them.

That's why I think last night's win and hopefully today getting a win is just huge momentum coming into this.

Yeah.