In his two years controlling the New York Mets roster, David Stearns has avoided any major additions to the starting rotation. Yeah, he paid Sean Manaea $25 million for three years last offseason. He pursued free agents and trade targets, but never came through. With the MLB playoffs underway and planning already in full effect, we only needed one day of postseason action for Stearns to get an unintended message from 5 of the 8 teams that played on Tuesday.
We started with a game between two homegrown pitchers then transitioned to a matchup between Matthew Boyd and Nick Pivetta.