In the second half of the season, the New York Mets have a huge advantage against their opponents, and this is their starting rotation.
The New York Mets made a slew of moves last season to turn the team into a permanent world championship contender, the biggest of which was the signing of Max Scherzer to a three-year contract. So far, the team has met its high expectations to enter the final two months of the regular season. When it came to the second half of the season, it was their starting rotation that led the way.
Since July, three of the four leaders in the ERA are none other than Scherzer, Carlos Carrasco and Chris Bassit, each with numbers below 2.00.
These numbers come courtesy of the tweet below.
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Besides Scherzer, Chris Bassett was one of the other big moves in New York, which they got from Oakland Athletics. The team acquired Carrasco last year in Francisco Lindor’s deal with the Cleveland Guardians.
The rotation was gritty for most of the year. However, the Mets still had ace Jacob deGrom waiting in the wings, as he recovered from the stress reaction of his right scapula. After repairing the injury, Degrom returned to the team on August 2. Degrom looked like his old self as soon as he went up the hill.
Through three starts, most recently on August 13th against the Philadelphia Phillies, DeGrum holds 1.62 ERAs and 0.42 whips. Perhaps the most telling stat of them all is that he hit 28 hits in total, and only walked one.
Entering the season, the Mets’ rotation looked intimidating on paper now, they’re living up to the hype. If they can continue to do so for the remainder of the campaign, it will be hard to pick them up when it comes to choosing which NL representative will go to the World Championships.
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