he had an extra day of rest. Maybe he's just worn out, we don't know. We don't know, he's fine, his health is fine, his arm strength is fine, but we don't have anything to lose to try. It's not like we're doing this in May. "We're sitting here in late August, early September, we've tried all kinds of things. That New York start was as good of a start as we've seen in months and it came on the heels of more rest, so why not. If we had the answer sooner, we would have done something sooner, but this is something I don't see the downside in trying. "It might just be this season where he needs a bit of rest, maybe he needs some rest in the offseason, maybe he tweaks his program. I think everyone adjusts. I'm using Brandon because he's a starter, you look at the first two springs we had Brandon, he had small issues. Broke down first Spring, we scratched him before the Astros start last spring. For Brandon, not everyone's the same, maybe we built him up too fast, too soon. He was throwing 98 March 15 and maybe we needed to gradually build him up. "This past spring, I think it was fastball, changeup, and then he only incorporated his slider later and it was just, let's try this. Maybe he had ramped up too soon. People you hear about going through a fatigue period in the spring. "There's no manual