The focus throughout the Atlanta Braves’ painful rebuild was about pitching, because as the old adage goes “you can never have too much pitching.” While that certainly might be true, a team (most of the time) needs a frontline, go-to, and shutdown ace to be successful.
Look at the teams still alive in the playoffs:
- Boston has Chris Sale (after they thought David Price might be ‘that guy’)
- the Astros have Justin Verlander, and to a lesser degree, Gerrit Cole
- the the Dodgers have Clayton Kershaw and at some point soon, Walker Buehler.