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Rookie pitchers don’t usually struggle this much early on

Royals fans have been hearing about their vaunted 2018 draft class for some time, in the past year, have seen that class begin to make their MLB debuts with mixed results. Brady Singer came out of the gate strong, and Kris Bubic impressed early on in 2020. However the 2021 debuts of Daniel Lynch and Jackson Kowar have been disasters, with Lynch giving up 14 runs in 8 innings in his first three starts, and Kowar failing to even make it to the third inning in his first two starts, pitching a combined 2 innings with 8 runs allowed.