Year of the Underrated NL Pitcher

If you asked most baseball fans who the best pitcher in the NL is right now, you would probably get a lot of mixed answers, because there isn't really an apparent best. Reading this, your probably thinking of a couple people who it could be. Are you thinking of Jeff Karstens? Clayton Kershaw? Johny Cueto? Ryansong Probably not. You probably hadn't even heard of Karstens or Vogelsong. Karstens, who started his first game of the year on April 17, has started ever since, going 8-5 with an ERA of 2.28. Clayton Kershaw, who has been (in my opinion) the most underrated baseball player of the past 3 years, has a higher but still impressive ERA of 2.72, and is leading the majors with already 167 strikeouts. To add, he has a WHIP of 1.02, 6 games of 10+ K, and 6 games of 8+ innings. Johnny Cueto, who has been consistently good (never Cy Young good) has an ERA of 1.98 and a WHIP of 1.00. He started his season on May 8 b/c of injuries, but he's having a stellar year and is another unsung pitching hero of the NL this year. Ryan Vogelsong is a Giants rookie who got his first start April 28, has an ERA of 2.02. He's given up only 8 HR in 98 innings. His WHIP is a little higher at 1.19, because he has a rather high amount of walks/innings, but he's still a great underrated pitcher. That's not it for the Cy Young canditates that most people, or you, didn't know about. Those are just the ones I chose to write about. But I think I'm not the only one who found this list shocking - did you?