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Originally Posted by ben voyonsdonc
Francis has very “mid” stuff. He needs near perfect fastball command to allow his splitter to play and also some sort of deception in his delivery. If his fastball is bad, his splitter is going to also be bad…and then he has nothing.
He needed to be sent down to figure stuff out last year and probably needs that again.
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You could probably justify sending him down to work on stuff if you had any reasonable option to replace him. There's already a "spot start/bullpen day" in the rotation, you can't have 2.