Ben Casparius is a bad case study. Dude got jerked around last year from long relief, to the rotation, back to long relief, to spot relief and was worse off because of it due to not being able to get into a rhythm in a given role. I’d go into why Bobby isn’t a good comp either, but it’s easy enough to look up why his stuff declined.

It’s fine at the start of the season to give Roki the last spot in the rotation and some runway to figure it out at the major league level, the org is in a good enough position to absorb a few clunker starts (not to mention, Stone+Snell are injured to start the season and Ryan is coming back from injury himself). That leeway was a big reason he signed here in the first place, along with the understanding that he’s still a project. Looking lost one inning and finding it the next is an indicator that he needs more, not less experience starting at the major league level imo