I noticed during the summer that more and more games are given to and then decided by a bullpen. Not just the miserable Nats 2021 pen, but the teams the Nats played. (That's why I started thinking of baseball as a 5-inning game, and a "Nats win" as the sort when the Nats led at the end of the fifth). Maybe nfotiu is right (and, yes, I, also, watched Nick Fotiu with the Rangers): baseball is turning into a bullpen game after about five innings.
And I hate that sort of baseball.
A team changes pitchers and -- bash-boom -- everything changes. Then teams change pitchers the next inning and the game changes again. Baseball becomes a series of 1-inning games, rather than a single 9-inning game.
I'm hoping that Rizzo is right and sound in his team-building strategy.
(And I think the Nats kid pitchers are nowhere near ready. Cavalli got blasted in AAA. He needs to repeat and master it. Henry should start the year at Harrisburg and, maybe by late July or August he'll be ready to try Rochester. The others are still just names in box scores, except for Adon.
Adon was amazing, but we've all seen rookie pitchers who had promising first starts and who evaporated. When I was about ten, I listened to the great Bob Wolf call the first start for the Nats by John Romanosky. He had a no-hitter going into the 8th, and then gave up a hit or two. Here is Romanosky's career:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/romonjo01.shtml