Matt Clement
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So I think that's the part where people thought he would be in the rotation.
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that Barco deserves to be here, should be here, but I think we're going to see him get some starts in AAA at some point.
When the bullpen gets taxed or used too much, I think you're going to see him in a situation where we need to bring up Sisk or we need to bring up somebody else from down there because we need bullpen innings that we can throw right away.
But it's good for him at a young age to learn how to do this.
And this is the big leagues.
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.