If Scottie Karl had more experience, I might have done it. The first three starters all get the same starts. It really doesn't matter, other than prestige.
Guys fight to be a number one, two or three starter.
To hear McDonald tell it, Eldred wouldn't have objected to the switch. He was worried about teams getting a read on him. I told him I always took that as an advantage because I followed Mike Mussina a lot over in Baltimore and we had similar stuff. I looked at it as an advantage because I could see what the hitters were trying to do to him. I could see who was struggling, who was really pulling off the ball, who was sitting back trying to hit it the other way.