PT TOMORROW: NL East—NYM back to six-man rotation?
Jun 29 2015
Steven Matz (LHP, NYM) made his much anticipated major league debut on June 28, taking Jon Niese’s (LHP, NYM) turn in the rotation. He was fantastic at Triple-A Las Vegas this year as he dominated the hitter-friendly Pacific Coast League (2.19 ERA, 1.11 WHIP, 9.4 Dom, 3.1 Ctl, 55% GB% and 6 HR allowed in 90.1 IP). The Mets say they’re going to use a six-man starting rotation, but they said the same thing before only to scrap the plan days later.
It appears as though the plan will be for Niese to shift to a long relief/sixth starter role, spelling one of the starters from time to time so that the team can manage the workloads of guys like Matt Harvey (RHP, NYM), Jacob deGrom (RHP, NYM), Noah Syndergaard (RHP, NYM), and the...
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