Going into the past two seasons, much was made of the left-handers atop each of the four contenders’ rotations: C.C. Sabathia, Johan Santana, Mark Buehrle and Justin Verlander. The first two had the gall to stay great but also the grace to be traded away, so we can ignore them for now. Buehrle, surprisingly, didn’t follow suit in the exodus out of the Central, but Verlander seems ...