New York has MLB’s best record in large part because of its starting staff, which is thriving despite the injury to MLB’s best pitcher.
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NEW YORK — Chasen Shreve all but skipped up the subway stairs into Manhattan on Tuesday night. He played for the winningest team in baseball, with the best pitching staff in baseball, and right at that moment—fresh off a doubleheader sweep of the Giants—he felt he was having the most fun in baseball.