Hess should’ve stayed in the pen

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When Mainieri started talking up Hess as a starter, I knew we didn’t have many quality arms. Hess is a Rick Greene type one trick pony worth about two innings. We’re in trouble

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Moron

He’ll go back there, don’t worry

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?

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

I thought in the fall someone said he had an elbow issue. Any truth to this?

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When Mainieri started talking up Hess as a starter, I knew we didn’t have many quality arms. Hess is a Rick Greene type one trick pony worth about two innings. We’re in trouble.

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Literally none of that is true.

To the OP: You may be right. However, it's one start. In baseball, that's known as a small sample size. You don't make sweeping judgments off a small sample size.

Hess will be an average starter at best. He’s a great bullpen pitcher and there is nothing wrong with that. Many of the best relief pitchers in the MLB are failed starters. But for those on here who thought he was going to be the next dominant starter at LSU clearly didn’t see or chose to forget what he did as a starter last year vs what he did as the closer.

He started last year