As Terry Collins laid out the plans for a six-man rotation to his starters a little more than a week ago, he presented the alternatives.
Instead of using six, he could pull each of the five starters after five innings. Or each of them also could spend time on the disabled list at various points, or be shut down in September when the Mets hope to make their push and end an eight-season playoff drought.
Those others ideas, not surprisingly, didn’t go over well.
“There’s no perfect scenario. None,” Collins later said. “This is the one way we can keep our rotation consistent and out there without putting them on the DL for two weeks.