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Looking at the Mets’ rotation down the stretch

Entering play tonight in Oakland, the Mets are 1.5 games up on the Braves, with 11 games to play. With a playoff spot clinched, there are three goals for the Mets over these last two weeks: stay healthy, clinch the division (and thus gain a bye through the Wild Card round), and line up their pitching staff for the playoffs. While the health goal is the most important, there isn’t much to discuss in that regard, besides hoping that Brandon Nimmo’s quad is as a-ok as he says, and to wrap Jeff McNeil in bubblewrap.

But the other two goals are pretty closely intertwined.