When Mitchell Parker won a starting job out of camp, he was the fifth starter. Now he might be the Nationals second best starter after MacKenzie Gore. Parker doesn’t do anything sexy, but he delivers and gets the job done.
The Phillies and D-Backs are two of the best lineups in the National League. Another thing they have in common is that they have been stifled by Mitchell Parker to open the season. Against those two dangerous lineups, Parker has gone 12.1 innings, allowing just one run.
He doesn’t dominate lineups the way Gore did against the Phillies or the way DJ Herz did last year when he was at the top of his game.