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Originally Posted by RealSNR
With a bit better luck than we've had in recent years regarding finding young pitching talent, we should be able to produce a pitching staff that doesn't suck total ****ing AIDS like it does now.
Unless we get balls lucky, I don't think we're ever going to find a headline #1 starting pitcher in our group of guys, but as the Royals of the past showed, you can get the job done with multiple 2s and 3s throughout the staff.
Whether or not our young guys turn into those kinds of pitchers is a different matter.
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Multiples 2s and 3s with a lights out pen seems to be the recipe for success for the Royals.
I've been watching the Royals for almost 15 years now, and I don't know that I'd ever say they had a true #1.
Grienke was probably the closest. Duffy had a time when he was pitching like a true 1, but he was never consistent enough. I had high hopes for Ventura, but....
Fun fact: Paul Byrd is the first pitcher I remember liking growing up as a kid. I thought his wind up was the coolest thing ever.