There is mounting evidence that two members of the rotation may not deserve their spots, after earning a 5.01 rotation ERA for the fifth lowest in the majors.
Buck Showalter surveyed his underperforming, veteran club and expressed confidence that two and a half months of results were not enough of a sample size.“I’ve got a long memory of how good they are,” the Mets manager said.
Tylor Megill has been inconsistent as a Mets starter this season, and was sent to Triple-A Syracuse on Thursday.Add it all up, and a rotation led by Max Scherzer and Justin Verlander entered Thursday’s off day as the third-worst in baseball, per FanGraphs’ WAR tabulations.After Tylor Megill walked four in Wednesday’s loss, only the White Sox’s rotation had issued more bases on balls than the Mets’ .
Nothing has gone according to plan, beginning with the blueprint for this season: paying $86.6 million to two ringers.Perhaps Scherzer turned a corner Monday, when he held the Astros to one run in eight innings, but he had allowed 11 runs in his previous two starts.But with a rotation that Spotrac calculates is earning $128.6 million this season, the Mets are relying on hints rather than certainties.
Carlos Carrasco’s 6.34 ERA would be tied for the third-worst among big-league starters if he logged enough innings to qualify.In offering possible theories for the group’s struggles, Hefner briefly mentioned the pitch clock before stating, “I’m not going to make excuses for the guys.”
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