A month ago, Luis Severino looked like a man on the verge of putting away a Cy Young campaign for good. The flamethrowing righty was the best pitcher in the American League, had a legitimate case to start the All-Star Game, and was pacing the field of excellent AL pitchers. Since then, everything’s gone wrong:
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Severino went from the class of the American League to looking like the shellshocked sophomore he was in the 2016 season. He shut out the Red Sox over 6.2 innings on July 1st, and after that has given up 19 earned runs in 19.