Entering this season, we had a pretty good idea of who the two best starting pitchers would be for the Rockies. But Kyle Freeland has had as disappointing a season as I can remember, and while German Márquez battles inconsistency, he has still shown flashes of brilliance. In the void, Kyle Newman argues, Jon Gray is emerging as a “co-ace” in Freeland’s place.
In just about every meaningful pitching metric and statistic, Jon and German are either first or second, and it’s not particularly close.