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I think the time investment to get him the secondary pitches to be a plus starter is more time than Jack wants to invest, especially since there are so many starting options over the next couple of years. It's not that Tom CAN'T start, but we have a bigger bullpen need. Only Pryor and Moran are close to ready as bullpenners, and Wilhelmsen is proving he can do the job very well.
He may have a Morrow future - "needed" in the pen with the Ms and not given a proper chance to start, blossoms somewhere else in the rotation. But with Paxton, Hulzten, Erasmo, Carraway, Walker, Furbush etc in the next couple years...it DOES look like the place for him to affect the Ms is in the pen at the moment.
I hope he's very good at it.
~G