KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Jason Vargas is 6-feet tall, he weighs 215 pounds, and he throws left-handed. Those are just about the same dimensions as Sandy Koufax, if you add five more pounds and subtract two inches. And that, generally, is the last paragraph Jason Vargas and Sandy Koufax should ever share.
Except: Vargas had started this season with an extraordinary rush, one of the few bright spots for the Kansas City Royals in an otherwise dreary first two months.
(It is no coincidence the Royals and Mets — combatants in the 2015 World Series — have the exact same 16-23 records after Wednesday’s games.