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Mets: Generation K is a cautionary tale of assessing pitching prospects

In 2015 the New York Mets trio we all wanted to see the team build with was Matt Harvey, Jacob deGrom, and Zack Wheeler. They would do what Generation K failed to in the mid-1990s; at least we hoped so.

In 2018 it was a trio plus two in Harvey, deGrom, Wheeler, Noah Syndergaard, and Steven Matz.

This season we are back to three deGrom, Syndergaard, and Wheeler, and they are still being compared to the best Mets trios of all time, including Seaver, Koosman, and Matlack (late 1960s-early 1970s) and Gooden, Darling, Fernandez of the mid-late 1980s.