With Ron Darling stating that the Mets’ starting rotation is going to have a historic season, how could you meet another former Mets pitcher and not ask him if he agrees?
Well, I couldn’t resist myself, so obviously I had to ask. Figueroa didn’t entirely agree with Darling, but he didn’t really shoot down anything either.
He did bring up a great point regarding this rotation’s juxtaposition to the ’88 team’s.
“Darling kind of went all in and you can see where he’s going with [that statement]. My only thing for it to be a historic year, something like the ’88 team that he talked about — remember they averaged 240 innings each…I think Dwight Gooden had 10 or 12 complete games that year.