re: ATL Thread: 7/13 vs Metropolitans

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I'd take our 7-deep SPs over your 7-deep SPs in a heartbeat. You are free to disagree but I'm familiar with your guys.

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No, you are clearly not familiar, at all. In fact, you don't even seem familiar with your own pitchers. Carrasco and Megill have not been good. Anderson hasn't been great for us this year, and Morton's numbers aren't what they need to be, but I'll take him over either of Carrasco and Megill, and I'll take him over Bassitt, who's only been so-so, when Charlie is on, which he had been until today. Charlie was a slow starter last year, as well. Kyle Wright has pitched like an All Star all year, and has been our most consistent starter from the beginning of the season. Fried is a top 5 pitcher in the game. Strider has been dominant, and has one of, if not the highest strikeout percentage in baseball, which tells you something about his stuff. And Soroka was already a top 10, maybe top 5 pitcher in the game before the Achilles injuries. He has to show that he can knock the rust off, but if we're strictly talking about ability when healthy (which is what you are counting on with DeGrom), he is better than anything the Mets have outside of their top two.

The Braves can not only match your number 3 (Walker) with their number 3, but they can match him with at least 4 guys, if we include a healthy Soroka, and the Braves are unquestionably better with the bottom of their rotation. As for Muller, he's no worse than Megill, but he certainly has an upside much higher. He's going to stay in Gwinnett this year, unless they have an emergency need for him. It worked for Kyle Wright last year, and it appears to be working for Muller right now, as he has been pretty much dominating the international league. The only question for him has been command, and they will let him work that out.