Merrill Kelly's aggregate skills in May trailed only those of Mitch Keller and Spencer Strider among NL starting pitchers.

Underneath Reid Detmers' ugly surface stats has been a huge surge in his skills foundation.

Pablo López's modest surface stats are hiding an upper-tier skills foundation.

Louie Varland's mediocre early results are hiding some really intriguing command building blocks.

Zach Eflin is looking like TAM's latest reclamation project given the huge skills growth he showed in April.

Joe Ryan's improved secondaries and firmly elite four-seam fastball have helped drive his command sub-indicators into elite territory.

Alek Manoah's slow start to the season should send him to your bench given his complete lack of hope for a turnaround anytime soon.

Chris Sale's bad start to the season has been driven more by bad luck than bad skills.

Pablo López's increased velocity and tweaked pitch mix has helped him unlock new skills early in 2023.

The growth in Braxton Garrett's skills last season makes him a very intriguing early stash, regardless of his role to start the season.

Joe Ryan's improved offspeed stuff in spring camp could help him take another step forward in 2023.