posted by Ironman92Keller should’ve been there
I'd agree. His April kind of sucked, but in May/June/so far July, he's been one of the top guys in MLB. And picked up win #10 yesterday. Probably turned into a question of do you pick the guy who's been mostly really good over a full half of a season or the phenom who'll put eyes on the TV screens who's been great, but over a shorter period of time. Going off what my brain says should be the case, it'd be Keller; but understanding that baseball needs to get better at marketing their young players (part of which is on those players; I remember how Mike Trout's prime didn't really get the mainstream splash that a comparable athlete in other sports would have received due to Trout not being comfortable in a "look at me" role), I get why Skenes was the pick.
Really, when I think about it, if the team had a consistent league-average offense this year, they'd be up there with the Brewers at the top of the division. Starting pitching has been very strong with Jared Jones also having a good rookie first half and Bailey Falter being a more-than-serviceable back-end guy, but the offense just disappears. Recent series with the Mets had outputs of 14, 2, 2 and 8. Balance that out and it's a four-game sweep, but as it was, it was a 2-2 draw with one of the other many mediocre teams fighting to be in the wild card race.