What It Means:

Freeland has been pitching from the bullpen in an extended assignment aimed at easing his workload. However, the team will be forced to put him back into a starting role sooner than later with Tyler Chatwood on the 10-day DL with a calf strain.

In his very brief stint in the bullpen, Freeland appeared just once. In that appearance, he pitched 3 scoreless innings of no-hit ball, with 4 strikeouts. Over the rest of the year, our numbers like Freeland to go 5-5 with a 4.23 ERA and 46 strikeouts across 81 innings.