Let us not kid ourselves, trying to get consistent performance out of the players who have made a majority of the starts for Kansas City Royals would be difficult. Outside of Danny Duffy and Homer Bailey, the next four leaders in starts for the Royals in 2019 had little experience. Glenn Sparkman had started 3 games, Brad Keller (20), Jorge Lopez (9) and Jakob Junis (46). Of the 79 combined starts of this group, 66 came from two players.
Junis’ numbers have become progressively worse in the last three seasons.