There doesn’t need to be, no, but Monty might be the number one SPer on over half the teams in MLB, so I can’t see how you can call him a number 3.
How many teams have 2 SPers better than Monty in their rotation?
There are some, but maybe less than 5, right?
I could see wording it like this, “he should be the number 2 or 3 on a championship team.@