Anything else has either already been raised and refuted ad nauseum or it's all purely conjecture anyway.
it's been refuted to the liking of people who accept everything out of the front office, some people still haven't seen anyone refute starting him later or giving him a longer rest in the middle of the season. The only refutation I've heard of the starting him later idea is that he's such a mental midget that he'd be sad if he was still at spring training when the team left. I think the success just snuck up on Rizzo and he didn't see a reason to plan a head for October baseball.
