Look into the Baseball Reference wins above replacement (WAR) leaders for 2019 and you will find a pair of Texas Rangers: left-hander Mike Minor and right-hander Lance Lynn.
Minor ranked first bWAR for pitchers, while Lynn ranked third. And both placed ahead of American League Cy Young Award-winner Justin Verlander and former Astros ace Gerrit Cole.
Some purists might argue Baseball Reference WAR is not a good estimation of pitchers. Indeed, Minor falls to 19th on the FanGraphs WAR (fWAR) leaderboard. Lynn, on the other hand, ranked third in fWAR last year, still ahead of Verlander and just behind National League Cy Young Award-winner Jacob deGrom.