You're building the top baseball team you can for the 2020s. You want the best players. The ones that can carry you through a grueling season and to great heights in October. But your rotation must be anchored by one of two young aces: Walker Buehler of the Dodgers or Jack Flaherty of the Cardinals.
Who's the better bet? SI's MLB staff weighs in.
Tom Verducci: Walker Buehler
This is a great debate because Buehler and Flaherty are the successors to Verlander and Scherzer. Great starting pitching may be dying, but these two highly-competitive guys are the torch bearers for their generation.