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I thought you were 22 and lived in New York, Matt?  :- )
If nothing else, I thought I had the right-of-way on Alvin Davis, Mark Langston and Harold Reynolds :- )
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The later Mark Langston morphed a fair amount.  The first five years, he could throw his FB by people, plus he had the Bedard/RRS hook.
For all that, I'm not sure that sabermetrically the two are going to share career paths.  Langston always worked hard to get strikeouts, even later.  RRS is more of a pitcher already than Mark ever was, IMHO, but it's hard to comp to Langston's sheer talent.
As you mention, Langston had some weirdly smooth centrifigual action going on that made the game effortless for him.  And that was how he approached the whole game:  ain't no thang.
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Langston would comp much more to Erik Bedard, sabermetrically, than to RRS.  But they all show the value of a skullcrushing yellow hammer.