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Originally Posted by JPhillips
Only if they don't start trading other pitchers. Thor, Wheeler and Diaz are all rumored to be available. If they add Stroman to DeGrom, Thor, and Wheeler, that's a great rotation. If they instead have DeGrom and Stroman and ?, that's very confusing.
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In a vacuum, yeah. However, the Mets have one of the 3 worst defenses in baseball behind that potentially great staff because every starter is a negative defensively. So the chances of that staff playing to it's ability is pretty slim.
They traded a top 10 overall prospect and a possible top 50 guy for the right to be saddled with Robinson Cano's contract through 2023 (and Cano looks like he's carrying around all that money defensively) and a closer. Oh, that was done in an attempt to replace the guy that currently 2nd in MLB in hitting (Jeff McNeil) who is playing so well they had to move him LF to get his bat in the lineup which puts Dom Smith on the bench with an OPS over .850. Neither one can actually play left field, but both are a hell of a lot better than a 36 year old Cano.
So with Stroman now they continue to gut the farm system and instead of having a relatively young team with a top 10 farm system they're gutted the farm system and are 5 games under with 6 teams ahead of them for the wild card.
I'm sure everything will be fine though, because they figured out how to outsmart the draft. (google it. It's on deadspin and I'm not going to break the thread again)