Back in December when the Mets signed both Rick Porcello and Michael Wacha, rumors began to circulate that the team might try to trade a starting pitcher. When those whispers started, an incredibly smart and handsome writer for this very website argued that that supposed plan was foolish. The point of having pitching depth, after all, is so a team will be prepared when injuries inevitably occur. And anyway, a team that begins two-fifths of its games with starting pitchers of Porcello and Wacha’s caliber—i.e. serviceable performers and little more—is normally hard to take seriously as a playoff contender.
Michael Wacha is now a member of the Mets’ starting rotation
