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Originally Posted by WhawhaWhat

Seth Lugo of the @Royals is the second pitcher in the modern era to win each of his first six road starts of a season while also allowing 0/1 runs in each one.

The other is Greg Maddux, who did so in the first seven road starts of his Cy Young-winning season of 1995. pic.twitter.com/KTJYnFKZJJ

— OptaSTATS (@OptaSTATS) May 30, 2024

Lugo has been an absolute marvel. Anyone wanna do the work to find out the last time we had a pitcher who was 9-1? Without looking, I’d say maybe Appier in ‘95 or maybe Saberhagen in ‘87? For all I know, we may never have had a pitcher start the season 9-1.

But more than Lugo, to finally have a competent rotation is great. Hell, we’ve got one of the best rotations in the entire league, and that’s gonna keep us in the hunt all year. Nice knowing we have Lynch and Bubic perhaps waiting in the wings if anyone gets hurt and we won’t have a significant drop off.

If this continues, I’ll shoot my shot and say this will go down as the best rotation in KC history.