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Bob Lutz: Johnny (Cueto) hasn’t been good for a while now

Johnny Cueto could find it just as abruptly as he lost it.

He could start pitching again like the ace the Kansas City Royals thought they were getting in a deadline deal with Cincinnati. Or he could, I suppose, remain the funk that has set in over Cueto’s past four starts, in which he has a 9.45 ERA and has given up 37 hits and 21 earned runs in 20 innings.

To quote flamboyant right-hander Joaquin Andujar, who died Tuesday at 62 after battling diabetes: “There is one word in America that says it all, and that one word is “youneverknow.