There's also some luck to it. I agree this team hasn't done a good job of developing starting pitchers, but that's a different conversation if Yordano Ventura is our #1 starter right now.
If Duffy ever got healthy, you'd feel pretty good about Ventura/Keller/Junis/Duffy.
You'd also feel better about the future of the offense if it was Whit/Mondesi/Acuna at the top of the order, but it's not.
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