It's funny how a guy like that (or, say, DeGrom) just has his stock slowly creep upwards... from waiver wire fodder to rosterable SP7 to SP3 with strikeouts to.... an true Ace? All within like, 4 months.
Meanwhile, ~80 pitchers with "ace upside" will be owned in our league as MiLB players at any given time, and maybe 2 of them will ever become SP1 or SP2s.