In setting up these starting pitching rankings that aim to look forward over the rest of the season, a few groups emerged that were a little more interesting than the rest. Each provides a little look into the process of setting this list. Let’s take a look at those groups.The Hype YoungstersYou’ll see them at the very top of the list — young starters establishing themselves with high-90s fastballs and hard breaking stuff and all the pretty peripherals to support their sparkling ERAs. These pitchers are not all surprises, as they were highly ranked going into the season, and Jacob Misiorowski was my bold prediction for National League Cy Young.In fact, we talked about these young pitchers often on Rates & Barrels as being a part of the “Hype Seven.” Misiorowski, Cam Schlittler, Nolan McLean, Chase Burns, Trey Yesavage, Emmet Sheehan and Eury Pérez all got high ranks and lots of love going into the season on our show, and one of my personal strategies was to try to get one of them on every team I manage.It’s worked well so far. Hitting (to various degrees) on six of the seven pitchers with elite upside manifesting into production for more than half of them is a pretty good return despite a fairly high investment.But Sheehan and Pérez offer a couple of mild cautionary tales. Sheehan is having trouble maintaining his velocity deep into games, and his performance seems tightly tied to the number on the radar gun. He’s allowed 10 runs in 15 1/3 innings when he’s averaged under 94 mph, and nine runs in the other 20 innings in starts so far. Stuff+ is valuable because it’s so sticky year to year, but that doesn’t mean it can’t fluctuate for whatever reason.And Pérez? Command obviously matters, and it’s not quite there for Pérez and may not be there for Yesavage; we’ll see as he makes more starts. It takes a little more sample size to believe in bad command, and it fluctuates more from year to year, so I tend to gravitate toward stuff — but command still matters.