He could be a good fit for the Mets in 2022, as he could give them better innings than several of the team’s existing internal options. That was the 41-year-old lefty’s highest major league innings total since 2007. Rich Hill (1.7 fWAR): A familiar face after spending the post-deadline portion of the 2021 season with the Mets, Hill had a very respectable season, finishing with a 3.86 ERA in 158.2 innings of work. But it would be a stretch to expect that he’ll improve significantly moving forward. Early in the season, Harvey was doing a better job of re-establishing his status as a major league starting pitcher. His much lower 4.60 FIP, combined with his 127.2 innings of work, are responsible for that fWAR figure. Objectively, Harvey was bad in the 2021 season, as he finished with a 6.27 ERA with the Orioles. Matt Harvey (1.9 fWAR): Harvey is the first pitcher in the series to highlight where fWAR can go wrong. For previous installments, check out parts one, two, and three. So let’s continue down the list of free agents by their 2021 fWAR. And even with Scherzer in the fold, the rotation could use at least on more pitcher. Things did not work out well for the rotation in the season that followed, but there’s no question that the Mets tried to build actual starting pitching depth.Ĭonsidering all of that, the Mets seem to have acknowledged that their approach to starting pitching had to change from what it had been before Steve Cohen took over as the team’s owner. To be fair, the Mets did more than that last winter, bringing in Carlos Carrasco, Taijuan Walker, Joey Lucchesi, and Jordan Yamamoto, among others. The move is a significant departure from the team’s strategies in offseasons past, which generally revolved around hoping all of the in-house options were healthy and bringing in some unexciting arms as depth. With the Mets having landed Max Scherzer on a three-year deal, the team has made its biggest splash in the free agent pitching market in a very long time.
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