Let’s find the Mets a ‘second-tier’ starting pitcher, Part 1

Source: www.amazinavenue.com --- Saturday, February 03, 2018
We run down some of the options left for the Mets in free agency, starting with a group of fairly well-known names. As one of the slowest offseasons in Baseball history as continued to move along at a snail’s pace, we all learned recently that the Mets might actually be interested in adding a starting pitcher. That tidbit of information came with a caveat, of course: Don’t get your hopes up about Yu Darvish and Jake Arrieta , as the team is considering a lesser tier of pitchers. And at the moment, there are quite a few pitchers left on the open market . The fact that pitchers like Darvish and Arrieta weren’t ever under consideration for the Mets shouldn’t be ignored. But in this reality, one in which other pitchers just might fall into a price range that the Mets are comfortable with—coming off an abysmal season of pitching—let’s run down the list of the remaining free agents by fWAR. That’s admittedly not the best metric out there for measuring past pitching performance, but FanGraphs makes it really easy to put all of these guys on one page . And fWAR still incorporates innings pitched, something the Mets could really use to mitigate the lack of durability among their current group of pitchers, particularly Steven Matz and Zack Wheeler , who have long track records of not pitching full seasons, and Matt Harvey , whose health issues are a relatively recent development by comparison. Alex Cobb In 29 starts for the Rays last year ...

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