Right now, he doesn’t have the arsenal of a complete starter.
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At one point this offseason, it was reported that the Red Sox consider the rotation an area of depth. While they probably aren’t technically wrong, the quality of that depth has been tested over the beginning of the season. There are about eight or nine arms in the system that could be in the rotation depending on who you ask, but they can’t all be starting pitchers. You could go with a six-man rotation to limit the workload and keep starters fresh, but with the quality of the pitchers, leaving yourself an arm short in the bullpen leads to situations like last Monday, when Chris Sale was left in the game when he clearly didn’t have his best stuff.