Obviously small sample but 3 starts, 15 innings, 9 hits, 3.60 era, 0.867 whip- I'd call that promise. Were we expecting 3 complete game shut outs right off the DL? It certainly gave hope that he would return to his career form of low 4.00 era. 15 innings should not give you any hope of anything especially since his stuff wasn't good and he wasn't striking anybody out But did you see his ERA? ERA man.