When news broke that the San Francisco Giants were not only signing flame-throwing reliever Jordan Hicks, but planning on using him as a starter, people were skeptical. Not skeptical of Hicks, per se, but skeptical of the Giants actually using him as a starter.
Over on the social media app Elon Musk Buys Nice Things And Burns Them To The Ground X, followers of the McCovey Chronicles account primarily responded to tell me I was an idiot for repeating what the best reporter in baseball, Jeff Passan, had reported: that Hicks was going to start.