re: Does Jay move Holman to the Friday spot?

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Hurd's A+ game is going to be better than what Holman can give you with his A+ game

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Agreed. But I don't think the gap is as wide as a lot of you do.

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The key is, can Hurd bring that type of performance regularly.

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Agreed again.

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I think the answer is yes

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Why? Nothing he has done so far seems to indicate that. In fact, in indicates just the opposite.

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I also don't know what the plan is with Jump

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I'm not sure anybody does, even the coaches. It's going to depend almost solely on his health and how his body responds after each outing. But reading between the lines, I think the coaches think Jump has the best stuff on the staff and his A+ game is probably higher than anybody's. But I think they're gonna be conservative with him for as long as they can to put him in the best position to have success down the stretch.

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he has Friday night written all over him.

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He has "best potential starter on the staff" written all over him. But I don't think they're gonna rush him there because they don't have to. We have plenty of weekend options. And if he winds up only throwing 1 inning in a 4-game weekend to start the season, it's hard to imagine he'll be ready to start weekend games any time soon, if at all. But he'll be a huge key to the success of this staff and team and it will be really interesting to see how Jay and Yeskie plan to increase his work load and what role he winds up settling into.