I don't, but there are some people on this board who think our rotation is just as good as the Mets so I'd be curious to hear from them.

Their 1 and 2 are better than ours, our 3 is better than theirs, but I think I probably take their 4 and definitely their 5 over what we have.

Its probably a 4 man playoff rotation with them going deGrom, max, and some combo of Walker, Bassitt, and Cookie with the odd man going to the pen along with Person and Megill who should be back. So yes our typical bullpen is in theory stronger now, but their bullpen now isn't what we will see in the playoffs. Bullpens are notoriously inconsistent anyway.

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Posted by volfan30

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Posted on 8/15/22 at 2:12 pm to TrussvilleTide

I wasn’t talking about head to head at all. Mets are hurt most by the change in format because they potentially lose 2 Scherzer/deGrom starts over the course of the playoffs. No other team losing 2 starts from their top 2 starters is as impactful as much because no one else has deGrom and Scherzer.

Braves literally just won a World Series with Fried and Anderson as their only 2 healthy starters and lost in game 7 of the NLCS in 2020 with only 2 starters as well. They’ve been able to win so many playoff games with mediocre-decent starting pitching because 61% of their postseason innings have been covered by relievers. They manage postseason games completely differently than regular season games.

The Braves fortune in the postseason is going to come down to how dominant their bullpen can be. That’s what they’ve relied on for the 28 playoff games they’ve played over the past 2 seasons and it’s how they’re built this year. #5 starters and really #4 starters are irrelevant.

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