The 2017 New York Mets (31-39) will need an eight-game winning streak just to get back to .500, and for a team that has a hard time sustaining winning streaks, that’s a lot to ask.
The Mets came into the season with the expectations that their starting pitching would be the decider. Every game, they would send an arm to the mound that would give them a chance to win. In theory, that was a great strategy. In practice, however, that is what has killed them.
Their starting pitching has been awful. Granted, they have been without Noah Syndergaard since the end of April and Matt Harvey has been a shell of himself, and that’s putting it kindly.