How Many #1/#2 Starters Exist in MLB

[btdart20]

35 minutes ago, ChosenOne21 said:

Bradish is awesome, but every time I see something like that I always wonder how he did over his last 39 starts. They drew the line there for a reason and that reason is probably to make him look better than he is.

That’s when he started throwing a sinker in games.  That was the reason we were saying he’d be great in 2023.  He sustained success thru one offseason.  

[RZNJ]

44 minutes ago, ChosenOne21 said:

Bradish is awesome, but every time I see something like that I always wonder how he did over his last 39 starts. They drew the line there for a reason and that reason is probably to make him look better than he is.

I’d say 38 starts is a pretty good run.  I don’t really care what the numbers were before that.

[G54377]

Cole might be the only guy in the "Ace" category currently. At least with the Verlander/Scherzer/Kershaw era guys getting older and less reliable. There are probably about 15 "#1 starters" and then a whole mass of pitchers that are everything from a #2-#5 depending on personal opinion including our own Kremer.

Edited January 15 by G54377
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[Just Regular]

2 hours ago, ChosenOne21 said:

Bradish is awesome, but every time I see something like that I always wonder how he did over his last 39 starts. They drew the line there for a reason and that reason is probably to make him look better than he is.

Looking at his 2022 Game Log, he's been so brilliant since its surprising to see his MLB ERA was 6.25 in his initial ~70 innings before the 8/26 gem.     That's some rookie integration tax.

It wasn't until the 9/6/2022 game the Statcast Pitcher Game visualization report first outputs the Sinker as a 5th pitch.

I do believe the Level Up to MLB is so significant cutting out a player's first results in those encounters is one of the "less bad" tactics.      Grayson was also Jekyll and Hyde his Year 1.