We also have Kikuchi and White…
I think people are setting their expectations a bit too high. We’re paying 4 starters 20 million each this year (one on the DL), and we also have a young top 3 Cy finisher.
Kikuchi should be perfectly fine as 5th starter as long as he doesn’t walk 3 batters per inning. And White is better than people give him credit for IMO. He’s a guy like Stripling that could become good with some small tweaks to his pitch sequencing.