I feel like Jobe would be “shut down” at some point this year anyway. So even though I don’t want to hear about an elbow injury with him, it’s also not necessarily an awful thing that he’s gonna get a rest for a month or so. The innings jump year to year was going to be a lot for him if he stayed pitching every 5th day all year.
Kinda dumb when we have been missing Olson, Cobb, Vierling, Perez and Meadows all year.
I am team Skubal all the way, but Fried is having a great season too so I can see that argument at this point. It’ll keep tilting towards Skubal as the season goes on though.
The other thing with platooning Carpenter is that Hinch can use him later in the game when the starter is out in key situations….plus we have a couple of guys that bat right handed that can play his position just as well who hit lefties better.
Greene provides better defense and overall skill set so it makes a lot less sense to use him in that way.