"Prior to World War I, the Germans invested billions in a state of the art navy to compete with Britain's magnificent fleet. In the course of the war, they took it out once, fought the inconclusive battle of Jutland, and put it back into storage — the boats were too pretty and too expensive for them to risk losing them. Assuming they won, they might need them for, um, something. And so the ships sat, and the Germans lost the war, and their navy was scuttled so as not to fall into British hands. A gun that you don't fire isn't a gun, it's a paperweight.
Chamberlain risks becoming a paperweight this season. He has the capability to start and perform at a high level, or we assume he does based on available evidence. That assumption needs to be tested, because if indeed his is capable, then having him sit around waiting for leads and pitching 70 innings this year is a tremendous misapplication of resources."
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