Now that baseball will be scheduled for a 60-game season in 2020, we can resume our time-honored tradition of arguing about athletes on the Internet. It’s unclear how a shortened season will affect the Mets—or any team, for that matter—but we can at least make some inferences about which players will benefit and which players will suffer from such a short season.
When the Mets signed Porcello and Wacha to one-year deals in the offseason, many concluded the team signed two players to fill one spot on the rotation. Some spring training chatter suggested the Mets might experiment with a six-man rotation or that a three-player committee with Steven Matz was brewing.