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The Braves on Thursday cut loose veteran right-hander Bartolo Colon. Mr. Colon's fresh availability brings us to the matter of the pitching-starved Mets ...
As noted above, Colon's lugging around an ERA north of 8.00, and to say the least he's at an age that lends itself to, well, forced retirement (to say nothing of deep decline). That said, Colon's FIP paints a slightly more optimistic picture. FIP (Fielding Independent Pitching) is scaled to look like ERA but reflects just those outcomes that have nothing to do with fielding -- i.