The one elder statesman of the New York Mets rotation was the well-traveled Jason Vargas. Vargas came into the year as an unwanted starter after his very rough 2018 season. He returned to the type of pitcher the Mets were expecting when they originally signed him and moved him to the Philadelphia Phillies around the trade deadline.
Thank you, Jason Vargas. pic.twitter.com/1HOhveV1Mb
Vargas was a holdover from the Sandy Alderson regime. He was in the 2019 rotation just because the Mets had no one better. In 2018, he had a 5.