The New York Mets have a deep and rich history of excellent starting pitching – especially considering that they’ve had so many bad teams in their relatively short (in baseball terms) existence. If time wasn’t an object, which five arms should be plucked from the Mets’ timeline to create the most amazin’ starting rotation?
Let us begin our Mets all-time single season starting five exercise with some simple ground rules.
First of all, there needs to be a certain suspension of belief in the concept of time in order to put these pitchers of different eras (but similar ERA’s?