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“#Mets eager to avoid this scenario<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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The twist in this Mets season is that if they win the NL East, no opponent is going to want to see them in the playoffs if their starting pitching \u2014 notably Jacob deGrom \u2014 is healthy. Yet nothing threatens the Mets even making the postseason more than the well-being of their pitching.<\/p>\n

It is why what is being said over and over from opposing teams is that the Mets are relentlessly asking about pitching. They would love impact. But they are not viewed as legitimate players for Max Scherzer. Unless they could involve a third team, they may lack the top-level pitching prospects necessary to land Jose Berrios \u2014 if the Twins even trade him.<\/p>\n

What remains on the chessboard then are starters such as Texas\u2019 Kyle Gibson and Jordan Lyles, Colorado\u2019s Jon Gray and the Cubs\u2019 Zach Davies. The expectation is that the Mets will still add an arm (maybe two) before Friday\u2019s trade deadline, but that it might be more of the Rich Hill level of impact.<\/p>\n

Their rivals sense they are desperate to protect themselves. For there is a best-case scenario for Mets pitching in which Carlos Carrasco comes back well beginning Friday, deGrom is not far behind, Noah Syndergaard offers a multi-inning September hybrid and the recent dip of Taijuan Walker is the natural ebb of a season rather than a dive for a starter who already has thrown 27 more innings this season than from 2018-20 combined.<\/p>\n

What the Mets essentially want to guard against is a repeat of 2007, when they held first place from mid-May until the third-to-last game<\/a> of the season amid a historic collapse. They blew a seven-game lead with 17 to play because their pitching hit a wall with pitchers like Philip Humber and Brian Lawrence (think the 2007 versions of Jerad Eickhoff) starting games late with Orlando Hernandez physically shot at the end of his career and most of the rest of the rotation working on fumes.<\/p>\n

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Acting Mets GM Zack Scott will try to prevent another Mets collapse, like the one in 2007.<\/figcaption>
Corey Sipkin<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In 2007, the Mets\u2019 ERA rose every month up to 4.93 in August, then 5.14 in September, which included a 5.51 by the rotation \u2014 third worst in the NL. The Mets ERA by month this year: 2.90, 3.18, 3.71 and 4.49 going into Wednesday. These Mets have been in first place since May 8 even as their rotation has followed the same negative trend line, climbing to 4.69 in July and obviously ballooned by Eickhoff\u2019s 10-run, 3 \u00b9\/\u2083-inning debacle Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Just about every contender is facing a version of what the Mets are because 1) at this time of year it is familiar to need to add pitching and 2) this year clubs are particularly worried about what the last few months look like since workloads were so disrupted last season with a 60-game season and no minor league campaign.<\/p>\n