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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
Seems fairly unlikely at this point.
Curve is too loopy and the fastball doesn't have enough movement or life for him to have the iffy command of it that he does.
He's still awfully young but I've seen zero growth from him the last couple years apart from one decent relief outing where he seemed to be attacking and getting better depth on his breaker.
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Yes, right now I see back end of the rotation at best. I hope I'm wrong, but he does need to develop at least one consistent put away pitch. He seems like, at least at the major league level he pitches too fine...and then walks more guys than you want from someone that doesn't have overpowering stuff.
His WHIP is 1.73 (albeit in a relatively small sample size). For his stuff he needs to be down around 1.2 to be viable as starter you can rely on.