Trumbo should not have been acquired by a national league team with a good first baseman already there. Really. The Angels had a hard time keeping him in the lineup even with a DH spot and a 1B who was missing a lot of time.
Exactly. Gibby wanted to see how he handled it with no real Win/Loss on the line. And probably wanted him to reach 80 pitches or whatever they had in mind, no matter the results.