Top 5 starting rotations in baseball
By Robby Sabo
3. New York Mets
Projected Rotation
- Matt Harvey RHP
- Jacob deGrom RHP
- Zack Wheeler RHP
- Jon Neise LHP
- Bartolo Colon RHP
Mets fans in the city of New York all feel like Rodney Dangerfield: they just get no damn respect. For good reason too as ownership via Fred and Jeff Wilpon has led to a terrible franchise over the past eight seasons.
Through gutting the personnel, stacking young talented arms and a whole lot of patience, Mets fans are starting to finally see that lovely light at the end of a very long tunnel.
2015 will be the first step on the field in which the Mets take over the baseball crazed city that is New York, and will own it for the next several years.
The reason is simple: young studly pitching.
While most don’t think the Mets did enough on offense to compete this season, and believe Matt Harvey is the determining factor of their success, I’m here to tell you that their pitching is so deep that it doesn’t matter.
NL Rookie of the Year Jacob deGrom is an MLB ace. His mindset of grit and determination suits that role with the best of them. It also doesn’t hurt to pitch to a 2.69 ERA with a 144 strikeouts in 140.1 innings.
The Mets finished with a team ERA of 3.49 last year which put them in the ninth spot in baseball. This was without Harvey.
Harvey will undoubtedly miss a portion of the season. They will cap his innings and try to set it up where he’ll be available in October should they make a run.
The power this staff possesses though is not seen in their top-five. Names like Dillon Gee, Noah Syndergaard, Rafael Montero, Stephen Maltz and Matthew Bowman make New York represent the deepest pitching pool of talent one through 10 of any team in baseball.
Their wealth of pitching will work itself eventually in order to obtain a true cornerstone everyday player.
Either way though, the saying is true as injuries prove every season: you can never have enough starting pitching.
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