NEW YORK -- Allard Baird believes the New York Mets are ready to win now.
"You need impact starting pitching and they have it here. That was one of the attractive things," he said Thursday, a day after leaving the World Series champion Boston Red Sox to become an assistant general manager under new Mets GM Brodie Van Wagenen.
New York's rotation is headed by NL Cy Young Award winner Jacob deGrom and Noah Syndergaard, and it also includes Zack Wheeler, Steven Matz and Jason Vargas,
But the Mets were next to last in the major leagues with a .