The story of the final pitching meter of the 2022 season is a rather simple one: The Mets’ bullpen actually performed quite well, but when the Mets’ needed their top three starting pitchers most, they came up short in the Braves series. If even one of them had a dominant outing like we are used to seeing, we may be having a very different conversation right now. Instead, they have a chance to redeem themselves in a Wild Card series that the Mets did not necessarily expect to be playing in.
Of the Mets’ top three starters, Jacob deGrom provided the best performance, but it was still not a dominant one.