Evaluating the Royals three rookie starters

The Royals recently just had one of the hotter stretches of the season, grabbing their first sweep of the year and even winning a whopping four out of five games at one point! Quite the achievement for this mess of a team. In that stretch, we saw three encouraging starts from three different members of their rotation, all three of them happening to be rookies.

Last Game Score: 64, 3rd highest out of nine career starts

All in all, we’ve seen a mixed bag in Keller’s first nine starts of the season. Like he was in the minors, he’s mostly been a pitch to contact guy, but interestingly enough, the strikeout rate has stayed somewhat steady as a starter (though still low) and some of the plate…