This period has also included four trips to the All-Star Game and four top 10 finishes in Cy Young Award voting. Burnes won the award in 2021 after leading the league with a 2.43 ERA in 167 innings ...

So, I for one am waving good-bye to that past and I am looking at Scherzer and Verlander as the heralds of a new guard of starting pitcher greatness. A new era is upon us.