Pittsburgh Pirates: As 2021 Winds Down, Mitch Keller Continues The Search For Consistency
Photo Credit: Getty Images There was a time that Mitch Keller was one of the most exciting young prospects in the game reaching as high as 12 th on Baseball America’s Top 100 prospects list, back in 2018 before the season started. That has seemed forever ago, as Keller has struggled to establish himself as a major league regular, let alone a player that his prospect status would lead you to believe he'd become. As the 25-year-old righty from Cedar Falls, Iowa wraps up what was his first full year in the majors, Keller has put together quite the perplexing season and has left just as many questions about him when 2021 began. If there was one way to describe the start to Keller’s season, it would be by calling it consistently inconsistent. The righty alternated between ‘good’ and ‘bad’ starts all the way through June before back-to-back rough outings landed him in triple-A Indianapolis. In 12 starts before being sent to the minors, Keller posted a 7.04 ERA across 47 1/3 innings, a