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[QUOTE="OrangeFoo, post: 2988887, member: 210"]
Isn't that the recipe for baseball these days? Get the starter out and go after the bullpen? The Nats especially with Scherzer, Strausberg and Corbin, are pretty solid. Not many teams are going to do much against those dudes.

I'm much much more concerned about Mets pitching. Two weeks in to the season my biggest concerns are that they are one or two starters short and multiple relievers short. Thor has great stuff and is lights out with no one on base. But once a guy reaches first his concentration is busted and he loses his control a bit. Love Thor, but I don't think he's ready to take the step into the DeGrom, Scherzer or even Strausberg territory yet. Matz and Wheeler are what they are... two guys with good stuff who will be completely inconsistent from game to game. I really hope Wheeler can regain his form from last year. Vargas is just filler...

The pen is a disaster... Gsellman was just okay last year and seems to have gotten worse. Lugo is in a funk right now...  I hope he can break out of it. Familia has great stuff but seems to missing the elite control he had in the run to the World Series. He makes too many mistakes for my liking. Diaz seems solid, although not as dominant as last year. The rest of the dudes in the pen are just cannon fodder at this point.

I'm curious to see how proactive Brodie will be with fixing the pen vs waiting until the team is in 3rd place and in a hole. My hope is to either get some relievers and push Gsellman or Lugo into the rotation and get Vargas into the long relief rotation. Or, will never happen, but sign Keuchel and more Vargas into the long rotation.
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