re: Hess should’ve stayed in the pen

THeres a difference throwing quality strikes for 100 pitches a game vs 10. And that plays into your mindset.

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Where do you idiots come from? He had a horrible outing and will, without a doubt, be given plenty more chances as a starter.

As a starter or a closer, if he struggles to throw strikes, like he did tonight, he will not be any good. So how would moving him, after one bad outing, make him better?

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Who are you to be calling anyone a moron? Hess objectively doesn’t have starter stuff or a starter mindset. There’s a reason that Mariano Rivera stayed in the pen his entire career. Some guys are just not meant to be starters and work much better out of the pen late in the game, and guys who rely on throwing super fricking hard, having one plus movement pitch that requires a ton of effort I.E. a hard slider, and acting like a psycho and being ultra pumped up and emotional on the mound generally fit into that category. It’s just not possible to keep that up for 7 innings unless your control is insanely good and his isn’t.

He’s a truly phenomenal bullpen guy. Literally was put on this earth to be a MLB closer. Let’s be realistic about that though and accept that most guys generally can’t do both. You are clueless about baseball if you argue otherwise, I’m not saying that he could absolutely never turn into an alright starter, but he is designed to shut teams down for 2 innings and that’s where he should be.