Albeit in his first game as a Diamondback Keuchel’s ERA+ was similar to his season average, Dallas Keuchel has the right stuff to be in the Diamondbacks rotation.
It is the track record, it is the reputation that helped him get to this point [to competing for the fifth starter position in the Diamondbacks rotation]. — Torey Lovullo
This season, Brent Strom was the catalyst for improvements by Gallen, Kelly, Bumgarner, and Davies. His magic is already working on Dallas Keuchel. Some advanced statistics in Keuchel’s first start as a Diamondback were amazing (I’ll get to that in a minute).