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00:00Why are why is everyone such a hurry to get Ben Brown in the starting rotation at Iowa?
00:05Doesn't he have a better more useful role in the bullpen for the Cubs?
00:10Well, you've seen the arm. Haven't you? Yes
00:12What does he do that the other starting pitchers that the Cubs have?
00:16Doesn't do
00:18Velocity. Yeah. Yeah. He's got that's my question. Yeah. Why is he in Iowa if he can help you in Chicago?
00:26Well, I don't I don't know that they they aren't going to do what you're saying David that they put them at the
00:32At the back end of the bullpen and have more power arms there, you know to begin the season
00:38but
00:38You got a special arm there that you can stretch out and be maybe a starting pitcher for you for the next five or six
00:45Years, I think it's incumbent upon you to continue that track and and get the very best out of them
00:51I know your need is, you know, you want to have a great bullpen
00:55But I don't want I don't want to change the the track of his career right now
00:59I'd rather see where he can go and and how long he can go out there and pitch
01:04Six or seven innings remember that game before he got hurt last June in Milwaukee
01:09Where he threw seven shutout innings a one-hitter
01:13I mean those things stand out in the mind of not only fans and media people but front office people like Jed Hoyer and Carter
01:20Hawkins, so I think they have a starting rotation
01:25In mind and and depth and the minor leagues for the first time in a long time that they can go to
01:31starting pitcher greater than bullpen guy, I
01:36Think so. I mean, I think you're right
01:39So you can make the argument though that you know the beginning of the year people don't go that long and you know
01:45You're gonna have you know power arms at the back
01:49And he might be very effective there so I can't tell you for sure they're not going to do that
01:55I can tell you that they think Ben Brown is going to be a starting pitcher