diff --git a/src/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.Kestrel/Http/Connection.cs b/src/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.Kestrel/Http/Connection.cs
index 814da8143b..add23c4389 100644
--- a/src/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.Kestrel/Http/Connection.cs
+++ b/src/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.Kestrel/Http/Connection.cs
@@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ namespace Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.Kestrel.Http
             var result = _rawSocketInput.IncomingStart();
 
             return handle.Libuv.buf_init(
-                result.Pin() + result.End,
+                result.DataArrayPtr + result.End,
                 result.Data.Offset + result.Data.Count - result.End);
         }
 
diff --git a/src/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.Kestrel/Http/SocketOutput.cs b/src/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.Kestrel/Http/SocketOutput.cs
index f424a7531c..5db2fb3ebc 100644
--- a/src/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.Kestrel/Http/SocketOutput.cs
+++ b/src/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.Kestrel/Http/SocketOutput.cs
@@ -684,14 +684,12 @@ namespace Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.Kestrel.Http
                 var end = _lockedEnd.Block;
                 if (block == end)
                 {
-                    end.Unpin();
                     return;
                 }
 
                 while (block.Next != end)
                 {
                     block = block.Next;
-                    block.Unpin();
                 }
                 block.Next = null;
 
@@ -705,7 +703,6 @@ namespace Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.Kestrel.Http
                     var returnBlock = block;
                     block = block.Next;
 
-                    returnBlock.Unpin();
                     returnBlock.Pool.Return(returnBlock);
                 }
             }
diff --git a/src/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.Kestrel/Infrastructure/MemoryPool.cs b/src/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.Kestrel/Infrastructure/MemoryPool.cs
index d5a4e59b7e..6fd37f8a9c 100644
--- a/src/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.Kestrel/Infrastructure/MemoryPool.cs
+++ b/src/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.Kestrel/Infrastructure/MemoryPool.cs
@@ -63,24 +63,9 @@ namespace Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.Kestrel.Infrastructure
         /// <summary>
         /// Called to take a block from the pool.
         /// </summary>
-        /// <param name="minimumSize">The block returned must be at least this size. It may be larger than this minimum size, and if so,
-        /// the caller may write to the block's entire size rather than being limited to the minumumSize requested.</param>
         /// <returns>The block that is reserved for the called. It must be passed to Return when it is no longer being used.</returns>
-        public MemoryPoolBlock Lease(int minimumSize = MaxPooledBlockLength)
+        public MemoryPoolBlock Lease()
         {
-            if (minimumSize > _blockLength)
-            {
-                // The requested minimumSize is actually larger then the usable memory of a single block.
-                // Because this is the degenerate case, a one-time-use byte[] array and tracking object are allocated.
-                // When this block tracking object is returned it is not added to the pool - instead it will be 
-                // allowed to be garbage collected normally.
-                return MemoryPoolBlock.Create(
-                    new ArraySegment<byte>(new byte[minimumSize]),
-                    dataPtr: IntPtr.Zero,
-                    pool: this,
-                    slab: null);
-            }
-
             MemoryPoolBlock block;
             if (_blocks.TryDequeue(out block))
             {
diff --git a/src/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.Kestrel/Infrastructure/MemoryPoolBlock.cs b/src/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.Kestrel/Infrastructure/MemoryPoolBlock.cs
index 25cab8c4f4..362165ee12 100644
--- a/src/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.Kestrel/Infrastructure/MemoryPoolBlock.cs
+++ b/src/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.Kestrel/Infrastructure/MemoryPoolBlock.cs
@@ -11,18 +11,12 @@ namespace Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.Kestrel.Infrastructure
     /// </summary>
     public class MemoryPoolBlock
     {
-        /// <summary>
-        /// If this block represents a one-time-use memory object, this GCHandle will hold that memory object at a fixed address
-        /// so it can be used in native operations.
-        /// </summary>
-        private GCHandle _pinHandle;
-
         /// <summary>
         /// Native address of the first byte of this block's Data memory. It is null for one-time-use memory, or copied from 
         /// the Slab's ArrayPtr for a slab-block segment. The byte it points to corresponds to Data.Array[0], and in practice you will always
-        /// use the _dataArrayPtr + Start or _dataArrayPtr + End, which point to the start of "active" bytes, or point to just after the "active" bytes.
+        /// use the DataArrayPtr + Start or DataArrayPtr + End, which point to the start of "active" bytes, or point to just after the "active" bytes.
         /// </summary>
-        private IntPtr _dataArrayPtr;
+        public readonly IntPtr DataArrayPtr;
 
         /// <summary>
         /// The array segment describing the range of memory this block is tracking. The caller which has leased this block may only read and
@@ -33,8 +27,9 @@ namespace Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.Kestrel.Infrastructure
         /// <summary>
         /// This object cannot be instantiated outside of the static Create method
         /// </summary>
-        protected MemoryPoolBlock()
+        protected MemoryPoolBlock(IntPtr dataArrayPtr)
         {
+            DataArrayPtr = dataArrayPtr;
         }
 
         /// <summary>
@@ -76,20 +71,12 @@ namespace Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.Kestrel.Infrastructure
 
         ~MemoryPoolBlock()
         {
-            Debug.Assert(!_pinHandle.IsAllocated, "Ad-hoc memory block wasn't unpinned");
             Debug.Assert(Slab == null || !Slab.IsActive, "Block being garbage collected instead of returned to pool");
 
-            if (_pinHandle.IsAllocated)
-            {
-                // if this is a one-time-use block, ensure that the GCHandle does not leak
-                _pinHandle.Free();
-            }
-
             if (Slab != null && Slab.IsActive)
             {
-                Pool.Return(new MemoryPoolBlock
+                Pool.Return(new MemoryPoolBlock(DataArrayPtr)
                 {
-                    _dataArrayPtr = _dataArrayPtr,
                     Data = Data,
                     Pool = Pool,
                     Slab = Slab,
@@ -97,49 +84,15 @@ namespace Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.Kestrel.Infrastructure
             }
         }
 
-        /// <summary>
-        /// Called to ensure that a block is pinned, and return the pointer to the native address
-        /// of the first byte of this block's Data memory. Arriving data is read into Pin() + End.
-        /// Outgoing data is read from Pin() + Start.
-        /// </summary>
-        /// <returns></returns>
-        public IntPtr Pin()
-        {
-            Debug.Assert(!_pinHandle.IsAllocated);
-
-            if (_dataArrayPtr != IntPtr.Zero)
-            {
-                // this is a slab managed block - use the native address of the slab which is always locked
-                return _dataArrayPtr;
-            }
-            else
-            {
-                // this is one-time-use memory - lock the managed memory until Unpin is called
-                _pinHandle = GCHandle.Alloc(Data.Array, GCHandleType.Pinned);
-                return _pinHandle.AddrOfPinnedObject();
-            }
-        }
-
-        public void Unpin()
-        {
-            if (_dataArrayPtr == IntPtr.Zero)
-            {
-                // this is one-time-use memory - unlock the managed memory
-                Debug.Assert(_pinHandle.IsAllocated);
-                _pinHandle.Free();
-            }
-        }
-
-        public static MemoryPoolBlock Create(
+        internal static MemoryPoolBlock Create(
             ArraySegment<byte> data,
             IntPtr dataPtr,
             MemoryPool pool,
             MemoryPoolSlab slab)
         {
-            return new MemoryPoolBlock
+            return new MemoryPoolBlock(dataPtr)
             {
                 Data = data,
-                _dataArrayPtr = dataPtr,
                 Pool = pool,
                 Slab = slab,
                 Start = data.Offset,
diff --git a/src/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.Kestrel/Networking/UvWriteReq.cs b/src/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.Kestrel/Networking/UvWriteReq.cs
index bf088950a5..bc776767a6 100644
--- a/src/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.Kestrel/Networking/UvWriteReq.cs
+++ b/src/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.Kestrel/Networking/UvWriteReq.cs
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ namespace Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.Kestrel.Networking
 
                     // create and pin each segment being written
                     pBuffers[index] = Libuv.buf_init(
-                        block.Pin() + blockStart,
+                        block.DataArrayPtr + blockStart,
                         blockEnd - blockStart);
 
                     block = block.Next;
@@ -89,7 +89,6 @@ namespace Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.Kestrel.Networking
                 var block = start.Block;
                 for (var index = 0; index < nBuffers; index++)
                 {
-                    block.Unpin();
                     block = block.Next;
                 }