The identity of the most successful New York Mets teams has been about pitching. Rarely have they been an organization fully dependent on large offensive numbers. While the 1986 team was an exciting championship-caliber lineup many could see from the start, their rotation was equally as impressive.
Trying to recapture the success of that rotation and ones led by Tom Seaver from much earlier, several different iterations of the Mets trying to piece together an elite rotation have tried and failed. Generation K was the one to fall shortest of success. More recently, the big five of Jacob deGrom, Matt Harvey, Noah Syndergaard, Steven Matz, and Zack Wheeler was meant to end the championship drought.