Because confidence in the minors is useless. He has a weapon (throw 99 mph fastball down the middle) that works in AAA just fine. Remember most teams historically keep their best hitters in AA, AAA generally is a mix of post hype prospects and AAAA types. So there is no minor league he can go to and play the best of not in the majors. AAA has too many AAAA guys in it and AA has too many young players mixed in with the stars. So he can go down there and be dominant because no one there can do much about it. He can’t do that in the majors because batters can absolutely square up that straight fastball and crush it. Sure you can send him down and force him to not use his fastball and rework his sequencing/work on secondaries but I don’t see why he can’t just do that in the majors. It’s not like he doesn’t have the secondaries he just doesn’t need to use them to beat AAA opponents.
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