re: Hurd announced as the opening day starter

Thatcher is as good of a candidate to start Friday nights as any we have on the team currently IMO. I'm not saying Jay handed it to him undeserved at all, but perhaps using it as a way to get the best out of his team.

But I think you'd be fooling yourself if you don't think that he would make that offering for extremely talented players. Players like Paul Skenes, Jacob Berry and Tommy White didn't come to ride the bench, but yes they still had to work for it and earn it.

Thatcher has the competitiveness that you want in a Friday starter, but he has not outperformed every potential starter based off of the spring scrimmages that I've seen. Now obviously Jay sees a lot of things that we can't see so I'm also sure that this start is based on those things in addition to what we as fans are able to observe.